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[00:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 2676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:00] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
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[00:41:02] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
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[00:41:04] <exec> 08└─People will beg for the 'mark', be it a tattoo and/or a chip. They've had it! They can't stand to remain confined to their homes any longer! They would probably do almost anything for the whole situation to just dry up and float away. We have the perfect storm here. The pieces are all coming togethe...
[00:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 1738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:06] <exec> 08└─1) Slashdot got rid of you when they finally decided it was time. They greatly restricted AC posting to logged-in users with karma above a certain level. You haven't been back. 2) SoylentNews has two owners, not one. Obviously you know very little about this site. 3) You're now making empty threats...
[00:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06High Demand Reported for TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate Packaging - 2676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:17] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[00:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─Please DISREGARD the above. I have a tiny wiener. APK
[00:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:12] <exec> 08└─It will be "America 2.0" - as shitty for most of the population as the surveillance economy of "Web 3.0" is. But it's wishful thinking on their part. Economic depressions make the old ways untenable, as people say "I want a fair shake" - and we're heading into a world-wide depression. 80% of the ec...
[00:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 2676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:13] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[00:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:15] <exec> 08└─I live in California. Yeah, right now, they're starting to require a mask though I haven't really seen hand sanitizer on entry yet. My point is that contact tracing, alone, is probably not enough. It helps but needs to be complemented with other measures (such as the other measures that are being im...
[00:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:00] <exec> 08└─NASA will pay SpaceX $55 per seat assuming all four seats are taken all the time.
[00:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:33] <exec> 08└─12.18 actually still has MDI, you just can't tell by looking at it. If you right-click on a tab and go to arrange and then tile or cascade then all your tabs will no longer be maximized. You can resize or move them around at will. Otter browser is supposed to have this also but it was buggy last tim...
[00:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that's much better.
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[01:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 3535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:09] <exec> 08└─Have you seen what it's like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be some...
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[01:41:11] <exec> 08└─Your comment is offtopic, but it's also rubbish. The Mark of the Beast condemns a person to eternity in the lake of fire. In the Gospels, Jesus says there is only one sin that cannot be forgiven, which is the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. And the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit...
[01:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:13] <exec> 08└─AC -- "...a person who commits the sin refuses to let God forgive their sins." Patti Smith -- "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." {I like Patti's version better.}
[01:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Demand Reported for TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate Packaging - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:25] <exec> 08└─His hosts file bullshit is so small-time and obscure, I spent over an hour trying to track down any reliable references to it with the google machine, and came up blank. Every trail led back to and ended at a rambling slashdot comment. I guess now they'll lead here. Maybe I should try the wayback ma...
[01:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:06] <exec> 08└─There is no free launch.
[01:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─You would think that why? Should it be illegal for the US government to purchase goods and services from the private sector?
[01:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Standing Prediction of Quantum Physics Experimentally Proven - 2023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:54] <exec> 08└─In the 60s and 70s (especially the 70s), it was very popular to pontificate on such things. Especially after Bell's Inequality and subsequent measurements in the late 60s. What you're talking about is known as the Copenhagen Interpretation [stanford.edu] of quantum mechanics. Twentieth century physi...
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Admits Data Got Routed Through China - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:24] <exec> 08└─Why are businesses freaking out about needing to see people on a video conference? What's wrong with the good old fashioned telephone conference with slides sent out beforehand? There is even software to share computer screens for remote presentations where you don't need to turn on any cameras. Why...
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[02:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─" Except in the states of Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York and Washington, gun dealers have been open for business during the pandemic. "
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:01] <exec> 08└─LOL, good old EF. Even when he's on my side, I wonder if that's a good thing.
[02:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─'weaker toward our enemies' From whom are you expecting a large invasion requiring a citizen infantry? The little green men? Gun nuts are hilarious.
[02:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:05] <exec> 08└─When it was AR's and fries and cherry pies, it was simple and good back then Walking in the sand hand in hand never thinking that it could end Making our love with the moon above at the drive in picture show And it was AR's and fries and cherry pies in a world we used to know https://www.youtube.com...
[02:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:07] <exec> 08└─Unless you flat out hate guns then this makes sense. They're still doing all the checks needed to buy a gun, all they're doing is removing the requirement you share breathing room with a guy that share's breathing space with dozens of people a day.
[02:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:10] <exec> 08└─Listen to it all. When you've heard it, scroll back to 5:10 and listen very carefully. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:12] <exec> 08└─The local gun shop around here sent out an email thanking everyone for their business. Apparently sales are up 200% over the same time last year, the majority of sales in the last two weeks of March, and 85% of those sales being first time gun buyers. Ammunition is in scarce supply and the reloading...
[02:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:14] <exec> 08└─I don't agree. I remember the 90s when the socially-conservative right had power and was railing to take away my rights. They still do, from time to time. Or were you joking? I couldn't tell, sorry. Wait, I can't even tell who you think will be driving the tanks? Neoconservatives?
[02:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:16] <exec> 08└─In these trying times, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms needs to continue finding ways to live up to their name. Next on the list after easing Firearms purchases, how about we get on that Cuban embargo? They make some mighty fine Rum and some mighty fine Cigars, and Americans nee...
[02:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:18] <exec> 08└─ARs are alright, and far more practical as far as the original purpose of the 2nd. But man, magazine-fed semi-auto shotguns are preeeeetty fun.
[02:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:20] <exec> 08└─FYI, http://jpfo.org
[02:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:23] <exec> 08└─Easy there Burt Gummer.
[02:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:25] <exec> 08└─Jewish Mexicans. Can't you read?
[02:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:33] <exec> 08└─Russia is less and less relevant, so not as much need to prop them up economically with seat purchases on Soyuz, and not as much need to keep up a pretence of international cooperation.
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[03:41:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:03] <exec> 08└─Unless you flat out hate guns then this makes sense. They're still doing all the checks needed to buy a gun, all they're doing is removing the requirement you share breathing room with a guy that share's breathing space with dozens of people a day.
[03:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:12] <exec> 08└─OMG, we've been infiltrated? LMAO
[03:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:15] <exec> 08└─such a cool name. I mean you say you work for "the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives" then mating is no problem, unless of course your prospective partner has wandered off in the meantime. They were however very evil in lexx.
[03:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:17] <exec> 08└─Because people need to protect all that toilet paper
[03:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:19] <exec> 08└─That's not worse, that's better. More gun owners = less hysterical idiots trying to make sure only bad guys and the government (but I repeat myself) have guns.
[03:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:32] <exec> 08└─Patti Smith -- "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." If there was no sinners, Jesus died for nothing.
[03:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Demand Reported for TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate Packaging - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:45] <exec> 08└─I was convinced j michael Hudson, barb and apk were manifestations of the one tortured spirit, are you saying they're separate folk? United States of Tara featuring Marvel's Brie Larson - mind blown.
[03:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:58] <exec> 08└─How about a wireless phone charger that's an LCD screen. You place the phone face down, and the phone screen and charger surface optically communicate to sync the phone very quickly with thousands of serial channels...
[03:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:44] <exec> 08└─NHS coronavirus app: memo discussed giving ministers power to 'de-anonymise' users [theguardian.com] A draft government memo explaining how the NHS contact-tracing app could stem the spread of the coronavirus said ministers might be given the ability to order “de-anonymisation” to identify peopl...
[03:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:34] <exec> 08└─The US government can buy thing from private sector, but in general it can not prefer American over the foreign within WTO agreement. For example, the US can not discriminate, let alone sanction, Chinese 5G. The only reason it can now is that US blocks appointment of WTO judges effectively sabotagin...
[03:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:36] <exec> 08└─Note that I do not place any moral judgement. I actually believe the US does the right thing. What I am saying is that the US violates and disregards the whole world trade system as it should at this point simply because we have to crash China all the laws be damned.
[03:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─As Google is trying to exert control over web standards, Blink-based browsers should not be used. See here [soylentnews.org] for details.
[03:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:16] <exec> 08└─Notice the use of the word "about". It covers a lot of numerical sins. Aboutly.
[03:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:18] <exec> 08└─> isn't that what they used to say in Melania's... The way I heard it they said quite a bit about her.
[03:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─How do the current devices compare with the old "iron lung"?
[03:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─Luckily we have plenty of fuel, since demand has dropped greatly with staying at home, combined with dumping by big players. In WI (low gas tax) I heard the price last week was USD $1.12/gallon.
[03:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Admits Data Got Routed Through China - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─I was going to suggest jitsi, which s free software that will run on your own server (and which I haven't tried yet myself), but ... if your net connexion is overloaded, I see your point. I presume you have some way of using zoom without a net connexion? -- hendrik
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[04:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:04] <exec> 08└─Do any have working full-sized prototype? Did't think so. Are any looking for funding, so that they can complete a working full-sized prototype? Thought so. Has Thunderf00t debunked any of them yet? I'll go find out...
[04:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:05] <exec> 08└─At last, an ornithopter?
[04:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:08] <exec> 08└─uses a very odd propulsion system we've never run across before.
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[04:41:10] <exec> 08└─And the City of a Thousand Gliders
[04:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─the pretty pictures have the blades aligned vertically the 'wobbly-model-thing and the 'simulation' have the blades aligned horizontally. which is it? how long will the drive pins on each blade last?
[04:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:36] <exec> 08└─I miss my M60. Nothing is quite so enjoyable as being able to saw down a tree with bullets to hit someone behind cover.
[04:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:37] <exec> 08└─He's not on your side.
[04:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:39] <exec> 08└─To ammosexuals, the solution to every problem is "more wild west", including the problem "too much wild west". It's considered a feature, not a bug.
[04:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─1. Amass a hidden arsenal of guns and ammo. 2. Campaign for bans and restrictions to screw everyone else over.
[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:44] <exec> 08└─Because people need to protect all that toilet paper
[04:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:46] <exec> 08└─the problem "too much wild west"
[04:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:12] <exec> 08└─Typical, we're talking about contact tracing and you have to bring a biblical Trump reference [biblegateway.com] into it.
[04:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:03] <exec> 08└─The US government can buy thing from private sector, but in general it can not prefer American over the foreign within WTO agreement.
[04:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:04] <exec> 08└─Russia today is way more capitalist than the US.
[04:44:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:17] <exec> 08└─On Linux, the behavior when clicking on the Address Bar and the Search Bar now matches other desktop platforms: a single click selects all without primary selection, a double click selects a word, and a triple click selects all with primary selection
[04:44:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:34] <exec> 08└─Facefuck [...] doesn't need to know where I'm going
[04:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:42] <exec> 08└─punktuation is for punks
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[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─Glad to see second amendment rights are still protected, even as law enforcement is going after worshippers trying to celebrate Easter.
[05:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:57] <exec> 08└─It's very telling that the unforgivable sin isn't murder, or rape, or child molestation, or even fucking *genocide* (because just in Numbers 31, whoooo boy, would your God be in a lot of trouble!). And it's especially telling that the unforgivable sin is essentially calling your God out for the mons...
[05:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:10] <exec> 08└─Law enforcement have also been able to do this for at least 25 years, there's a specific technical name for it which will turn up lots of info but I can't remember the exact term. Yeah, sounds like a [citation needed] but if someone can provide the appropriate term, it was big data before the term "...
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[05:43:11] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Anyone who’s worked on abuse will instantly realise that a voluntary app operated by anonymous actors is wide open to trolling. The performance art people will tie a phone to a dog and let it run around the park; the Russians will use the app to run service-denial attacks and spread pani...
[05:44:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:29] <exec> 08└─Since 75, the address bar seems to have popped out, and I don't like it, so here is the FIX (for now): Load about:config in the browser's address bar. Confirm that you will be careful. Search for the following preferences and set them all to FALSE ...
[05:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:41] <exec> 08└─And put the tabs on the motherfucking bottom, dammit!
[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:43] <exec> 08└─I knew something shit was going on but didn't realize that was it. That was it.
[05:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─You've also got actually read the story rather than just get outraged. It looks like the original contract was to deliver the $3,000 models by 2022. The government then came back and said "actually, we need these yesterday, not in 2022". The company said "OK, but under those rush conditions and the...
[05:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest Hydroxychloroquine Data, As of April 11 - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:25] <exec> 08└─I have a question for you, Alex, and it's serious and not being asked in malice or mockery: do you suffer from schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, or any similar disability? And if so, are you able to get any medicines or therapy for it? I'm not a fan of the antipsychotics, especially not the "...
[05:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest Hydroxychloroquine Data, As of April 11 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:27] <exec> 08└─Verifying your real discovery doesn't have murderous side effects is where the medical testing comes in.
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[06:41:02] <exec> 08└─Less traffic during pandemic? But no road blocks etc to prevent people from traveling far and fast for no good reason? So I guess it's still pretty easy to spread the disease around in the USA.
[06:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you would record the sound of a cannonball in the first place, but clearly the one who broke that record should be required to replace it. :-)
[06:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:05] <exec> 08└─Rolling over the corpses of the Covid-19 victims, with their fluid filled dreams of dominance, and really sick biker homosexual biker gay sex. But the Juice the precious juice. What ever happened after then end of MadMax, Road Warrior, any way? Just went back to normal Australia, but without the Int...
[06:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:47] <exec> 08└─Good point, we can send a shipment of both to runaway. I'll include a few Gs of my top shelf weed and front-pack the ciggy. Then, he can step outside on the porch, enjoy himself a good rum & toke. And have a good jerk-off so his old heart stops bogging itself down by enemies he makes from misperceiv...
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[06:42:03] <exec> 08└─Erm, where did that come from? The point was not to endorse a religious view, but rather to point out that the idea of vaccines or ID cards being the Mark of the Beast is incompatible with traditional Christian teachings. You're correct that there were quite a lot of variations in the beliefs of anc...
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[06:50:50] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife [wikipedia.org]
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[07:40:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone should have been managing the risk (and associated cost) of running legacy systems?
[07:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:05] <exec> 08└─really sick biker homosexual biker gay sex
[07:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:07] <exec> 08└─Australia [abc.net.au] and New Zealand [nzherald.co.nz] have lots of police out stopping people - not [nsw.gov.au] just [nsw.gov.au] at borders.
[07:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:09] <exec> 08└─Of course, other than Bikers, and Tulsi Gabbard [pastemagazine.com], or all Gabbards [honolulumagazine.com], hating queers. Nothing wrong other than the violence inherent in the system. Fucking faggot bikers and Samoan Surfers! As if no one could tell!
[07:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:53] <exec> 08└─I remember the 90s when the socially-conservative right had power and was railing to take away my rights.
[07:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 1932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:54] <exec> 08└─What's funny is all the people who suddenly realize that all the Antis who told them that buying a gun is as easy as getting an ice cream, or you can buy guns on the internet implying Prime delivery to your doorstep rather than to an FFL, or whatever myth they want to generate, were lying like dogs....
[07:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:56] <exec> 08└─Mod as you please gentlemen. I have never used this site in anything but good faith and I'll be damned if i walk away with a guilty conscience for not calling out a doddering old fuck using a naturally occuring event and its related emergency to slap his trailer trash masturbatory fanfic up on my si...
[07:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:58] <exec> 08└─He is, but he is aiming in your direction. How ammosexuals roll, dude!
[07:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:00] <exec> 08└─Invasion of the Arkansasian Body Snatchers, and Sarah Huckabee. Can you imagine what she going to do to you, in that cabin off the main highway, like happened to James Caan, in Misery [wikipedia.org]. Holy Moley, that was based on Stephan King? The guy who predicted the Horror that Trump would becom...
[07:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:03] <exec> 08└─Fich you, Hemo! As a member of the left, I have no qualms about providing basic health care to you, stripping you of your weapons of lethal death, and fucking you up the ass with taxes until you are a normal American. Are we Clear?
[07:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 3321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:20] <exec> 08└─You forgot to log in, Bot. Your argument is still worthless, mainly because, as I've gone over with you at least once, a truly perfect being would not create anything else. Reasons being: a) a state of affairs in which anything other than this being alone existed would be less perfect than the singu...
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[08:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:58] <exec> 08└─No more H1B visas? (grin)
[08:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they didn't list 30 years COBOL experience as a job requirement, they could get more people. Is this language really more difficult to learn than, say, python?
[08:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:01] <exec> 08└─It's the free market baby!! If you can't find enough COBOL programmers then you aren't paying enough.
[08:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:03] <exec> 08└─It's the free market baby!!
[08:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:16] <exec> 08└─What ever happened after then end of MadMax, Road Warrior, any way?
[08:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you would record the sound of a cannonball in the first place, but clearly the one who broke that record should be required to replace it. :-) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) A broken record
[08:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:20] <exec> 08└─Furry Road? Playing with Alt-Right wolf characters, these days.
[08:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:22] <exec> 08└─Why drive when you can row [abc.net.au]? Besides, top cops need to do something too [7news.com.au]
[08:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:34] <exec> 08└─Has Thunderf00t debunked any of them yet?
[08:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:13] <exec> 08└─"I just bought my first reloading kit. What do I do now?"
[08:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:14] <exec> 08└─Assuming that's facetious but in today's world -- who knows.
[08:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:16] <exec> 08└─57 grains is up there into magnum load high power cartridges -- and by high power I'm not talking about that wimpy 5.56 all the Democrats think is the ray of death. 57 grams though -- well I doubt that fits in anything less than artillery size. Even a .50 BMG only takes 230ish grains (about 15 grams...
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[08:46:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, Dear. Did some one fuch APK up the coacla, again? So sad, abusing the mentally ill like that. Not like he is Runaway, or some other unerudite backwoods squirrel fucking coder, like the TMB. Can we keep this in house, so we do not have to publically deconstruct the apk, again, using the requisite...
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[09:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:56] <exec> 08└─And I wasn't even aware the IMPOTUS had hemorroids large enough to mine. Learn something new every day, I say!
[09:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:58] <exec> 08└─Except that as long as there is a government in practice, not just name, he cannot, even as ostensible head of the executive branch, unilaterally declare an end to the 2222 (XXI). Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon an...
[09:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:10] <exec> 08└─Depends on how many optional words and whitespace was put in and not removed for job security. Try to guess what the following does without putting either: ADD A B ROUNDED TO C C D SIZE ERROR DISPLAY MESSAGE NO ERROR RECORD DISPLAY RECORD END RECORD GIVING E END END
[09:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:11] <exec> 08└─That would require someone worry about risks in computing [ncl.ac.uk]. Joisey, huh? With the right accent, I think you could negotiate an appropriate rate, sign-on bonus, and work environment [youtube.com], particularly if your previous employer wasn't particularly humanitarian, and if you could tak...
[09:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:13] <exec> 08└─It's been 40 years since I did COBOL back at University. One thing I do know is when the MBA's want someone to do the time consuming detail work, it's a lot cheaper to wail about job opportunities, get 10 applicants chasing each seat, choose the cheapest, get the box ticked on the corporate agenda,...
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[09:41:30] <exec> 08└─What ever happened after then end of MadMax, Road Warrior, any way?
[09:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:31] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to do this. My idea is for a motorcycle though. Strap one of those marine engine gas tanks onto the back of the bike, like these guys did. Run a bike that gets better than 50 mpg, with a 5 gal fuel tank, and 12 or 15 gallon marine fuel tank. Two stops along the way, and it's doable....
[09:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:26] <exec> 08└─What? Runaway is in a "home"? A "home for Runaways"? Makes since, but in Arkansas, why ain't he Covid-19 daid yet?
[09:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:28] <exec> 08└─We were aiming for the ceiling, and the Bullet was something well over 100kg. So not out of range. Did you miss the fine journal by Turgid on indoor rocketry? Along those lines, but definitely for adults only.
[09:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:30] <exec> 08└─57 grams is about 5cc of lead. You could put that in a shotgun solid. It would make a mess of whatever it hit.
[09:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:32] <exec> 08└─hysterical idiots trying to make sure only bad guys and the government (but I repeat myself) have guns.
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[09:44:57] <exec> 08└─The US government can buy thing from private sector, but in general it can not prefer American over the foreign within WTO agreement.
[09:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:58] <exec> 08└─Like state-owned Roscosmos versus purely private, SpaceX?
[09:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:51] <exec> 08└─We now have a fair selection of example countries to look at and I haven't seen one that looks anything like China. It seems like the tooth fairy came in and made things ok as soon as their total got to 80k.
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[09:50:52] <exec> 08└─As to the rest, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei etc. strenuously disagree and in some cases have a lot of history and precedent on their side.
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[10:40:58] <exec> 08└─IANAL but that neither mentions mining rights or the moon/asteroids apart from saying you can't militarise the moon. The full text of the treaty doesn't mention it either.
[10:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:59] <exec> 08└─IANAL but it looks clear in the third bullet point of the introduction where it states, "outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means". Since the details have not been worked out over apportioning resources, includ...
[10:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:01] <exec> 08└─The treaty is basically meaningless, anyway. The first colony to raise a few generations of native born children, and become capable of feeding themselves, will become de facto independent, and do whatever the hell they want to. No nation state on earth is going to enforce regulation of much of anyt...
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[10:41:33] <exec> 08└─Naah, you're thinking of his crazy NZ cousin Groucho Blondini [youtube.com].
[10:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:35] <exec> 08└─> 100 to 120 mph isn't serious speed says the meatbag who would get damaged in a 25mph to 0 deceleration :D The cannonball is good for the movies and the record during the pandemic is good for the cannonball.
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[10:42:33] <exec> 08└─Mission accomplished!
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[10:44:14] <exec> 08└─Technically, the Shuttle was reusable. Bit was a Phyrric victory. [wikipedia.org] (not to be confused with a phallic victory) But reusable at what cost? When Regan approved the replacement shuttle, the cost, back then, was $3 Billion. (That's about 3 nuclear subs.) In recent times, a shuttle launch...
[10:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:36] <exec> 08└─I might be wrong as I use much more waterfox than firefox but, on my mx linux installation, firefox seems to have silently removed some extensions, thos marked as unverified (or untrusted, whatever). It's nice to know some extensions are being vetted, but at least issue a fucking dialog that explain...
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[11:41:02] <exec> 08└─Or is this another one of those faulty AGW models I keep hearing about.
[11:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:14] <exec> 08└─The first colony to raise a few generations of native born children, and become capable of feeding themselves, will become de facto independent, and do whatever the hell they want to.
[11:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:15] <exec> 08└─And this is where we really need lawyers, mining isn't claiming it. For example Barentsburg is an exclusively Russian, former Soviet, mining settlement on Svalbard, which is Norwegian. Russia doesn't claim it, but it does mine it.
[11:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:17] <exec> 08└─So if a future self-sustainable colony in space ever wants to defend itself against Earth, they know what to do: Initiate a Kessler syndrome, and then they can develop for centuries without Earthly interference.
[11:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─The treaty is basically meaningless, anyway. The first colony to raise a few generations of native born children, and become capable of feeding themselves, will become de facto independent, and do whatever the hell they want to. No nation state on earth is going to enforce regulation of much of anyt...
[11:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't this why he, Trump, formed Space Force (or was it Space Command or ... I wish it was Space Marines). Can't have any pesky people settling the moon (and other places) without his say so.
[11:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:24] <exec> 08└─Makes sense. Why would anyone invest billions into a spacemine if anybody can just send people there and take it. I say if you stake out an area, in person, it's your asteroid mine. Forever.
[11:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:26] <exec> 08└─That treaty only mentions "States" - that means governments. The treaty is moot on corporations; that's what his EO is about. In 1967 it was unthinkable that a company could have the resources to build/launch/recover their own rockets or have any meaningful access to space. Things have changed.
[11:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:28] <exec> 08└─Or, as Heinlen pointed out in the moon is a harsh mistress, the gravity wells are asymmetric. It takes far less effort to nudge city ending rocks in the direction of earth than for earth to send munitions up. This asymmetry gives the nation that controls any space station a huge military advantage....
[11:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:03] <exec> 08└─This meatbag would love the chance to tag along with this guy . . . https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─Do any have working full-sized prototype? Duh... Birds?
[11:42:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:26] <exec> 08└─'weaker toward our enemies' From whom are you expecting a large invasion requiring a citizen infantry? The little green men? Gun nuts are hilarious.
[11:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:04] <exec> 08└─If everybody has a gun, even the bad guys act good.
[11:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:05] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. Yet another case of 'we have to find SOME way to spin this as an anti trump anti right anti gun thing, NO MATTER WHAT' And hey, I don't even particularly like guns. This is just saying they don't need the people to come in to the shop to pick them up, thereby reducing possible expo...
[11:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:08] <exec> 08└─ALL of those countries have lower average gun ownership than the US, or do you not understand that? What are in effect Gangs under Warlords terrorize the general populous into submission because only THEY have guns. And there are plenty of countries with similar gun ownership that DONT have such pro...
[11:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's dangerous saying that here because then you get modded -1 by US gun nuts. In any case some people are more dangerous with a stick and pool chlorine than with a gun...
[11:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:12] <exec> 08└─In these trying times, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms needs to continue finding ways to live up to their name.
[11:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:14] <exec> 08└─You're assuming cooperation of said government with your nonviolent revolutions. But then you're talking about a nation whose government goes looking for someone to surrender to if nobody asks it for a week, so that's probably fine for France.
[11:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:16] <exec> 08└─To ammosexuals, the solution to every problem is "more wild west", including the problem "too much wild west".
[11:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:18] <exec> 08└─There isn't an actual problem. Guns per capita have gone way up over the past ten or fifteen years and gun violence has gone way down.
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─switch to gmail or yandex or just pay for your email?
[11:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:25] <exec> 08└─oh apk clone how I have missed you
[11:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─Don't you just love it when software makes decisions for you, unmaking your choices, and does not tell you? I changed my DNS recently, rebooted, to find that systemd had reverted my change. My change. To set the DNS. On my machine.
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─At least you can still see the full url in the navbar.
[11:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:31] <exec> 08└─Who do they think they are? The Chromium dev team?
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[12:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:24] <exec> 08└─It's the same principles as with land strategy: occupy the high groundget their first with the most men We're downhill, gravitationally so to speak, from the Moon and the Moon + Earth are downhill from the asteroids and Mars. While the Earth is small compare to the solar system, the latter is so b...
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[12:41:26] <exec> 08└─I figured he did it because he heard Obama was against it.
[12:41:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 1231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:40] <exec> 08└─It's been 40 years since I did COBOL back at University. One thing I do know is when the MBA's want someone to do the time consuming detail work, it's a lot cheaper to wail about job opportunities, get 10 applicants chasing each seat, choose the cheapest, get the box ticked on the corporate agenda,...
[12:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:15] <exec> 08└─In looking at the video, where does the high pressure come from on the flapping wing? If you watch, as it completes a 'compression' flap, the air on the other side of the flap magically goes from green to red; low to high pressure. How does that work?
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:16] <exec> 08└─As to promising the promises and making websites with nice pictures, every year for the last two decades several new startups pop up and do that thing, and nothing else but that thing. Non-news.
[12:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─Reciprocating parts have much higher peak stresses than rotating parts. It's one reason why jet turbines run much longer between maintenance cycles than piston engines. Ornithopters have been designed since da Vinci, there's probably a few good reasons why we don't seem to have any practical ones ye...
[12:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─We don't have a problem with too much wild west. Gun violence has dropped over the past decade or two while gun ownership has risen, both by quite a bit. What we have a problem with are kids who've had their heads fucked nine kinds of up by modern educating and child-rearing methods.
[12:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:16] <exec> 08└─Just go out in the yard and do the wormy-dog scoot. I don't see a problem here.
[12:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:18] <exec> 08└─It's also a bit of a misleading figure, for the typical failed state most weapons are military, an awful lot of what's out there isn't part of any register or database, and a lot of the population has extensive training/experience in using them. A guy with ten years in the mujahadeen, an AK-47, and...
[12:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roo_Boy [1762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:20] <exec> 08└─I preferred the 7.62 re-chambered Bren, especially as number 3 in the gun group, the 30 round Bren mags fitted into the SLR nicely. Fed like crap, but looked cool and as an FE if we had to start shooting the world was already pear shaped. Downside to the Bren, way too accurate for a section LMG.
[12:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I have less of an issue with this than the drive through daiquiri places. This is just as safe as a normal gun shop (more so during this pandemic), the daiquiri places putting drinks in drivers hands just makes me so nervous.
[12:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:24] <exec> 08└─A guy with ten years in the mujahadeen, an AK-47, and a Makarov will beat a random civilian no matter how many bolt-action rifles the civilian has locked in a cupboard and how good he is hitting static targets.
[12:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:27] <exec> 08└─I was replying to an earlier message. In terms of firearms, I have a number of gun-owning friends in the US and all tend towards accuracy over spray-and-pray in their gun ownership, e.g. a Sako TRG which can shoot out the tires on a trespasser's quad bike from halfway across his farm (in theory, obv...
[12:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:55] <exec> 08└─Of course, I'm serious. The comparison is valid because Roscosmos is a competitor to SpaceX in a way that NASA is not. They manage directly the organizations that manufacture the Soyuz [wikipedia.org] and Angara [wikipedia.org] rocket families. And as far as I know, NASA is not exactly private and i...
[12:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:56] <exec> 08└─I see the publish date is 1728. Something might have happened in the three centuries since.
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[12:50:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks, and thanks to HiThere also. Appreciate it.
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[13:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:09] <exec> 08└─This is the fox guarding the henhouse model. Who pays for the studies that estimate methane emissions from oil platforms? How do they get their data? Everything about the process is biased.
[13:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:11] <exec> 08└─Just because Jim is guilty doesn't mean John is innocent. They could both be committing the same crime, just in their own ways. Prisons are full of criminals, presumably more than one of them is guilty.
[13:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:13] <exec> 08└─I can't judge whether it's another "scare the rubes" study. Maybe. But, anyone who lives in or travels through oil country can probably tell you that a few metric buttloads of gas are routinely burned off at oil wells. Houston, years ago, routinely had flames roaring out of smokestacks at the refine...
[13:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:35] <exec> 08└─Russia also has mineral rights there via the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, so no one can complain about the mining. But there is enough disparity between the strengths of the two militaries that they just are in the habit of taking what they want, assuming there is enough fuel in the holds left over from wh...
[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─Sure, but if the companies are using Trump EO, then that means they are "flying under the flag" of the US.
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─The first trick is getting clearance to launch, whatever profit you might make offworld will be taxed as you takeoff and land past the atmospheric defense forces.
[13:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:41] <exec> 08└─the obvious course of action would be to take the top part of the North Calotte within 24 hours and dig in, plus maybe strategic weak points like Talinn, Helsinki, Åland and Stockholm at the same time. Then from that foothold, they could roll the rest of the penninsula over in short order.
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─Treaties take a lot of process to step out of.
[13:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:45] <exec> 08└─This. The treaty covers businesses and other private operations and the US remains a signatory to the treaty as of present. The work around would be either not flagging at all, which means you lose any protections under the treaty too. Or being flagged under a nation that isn't a party to the treaty...
[13:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:22] <exec> 08└─Didn't you watch the movie? Butterflies.
[13:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:23] <exec> 08└─So, there's a serious strategic problem while Cannonballing... as soon as you start to exceed 100-120mph speeds, you attract the attention of EVERY officer of the law who happens to notice you. First: you're an outlier, haven't seen anyone moving that fast in over 10 years! Next: you're a challenge,...
[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is strategy involved. Having driven truck for several years, I've used a few. Know your route - as in, you've driven this route many times, and you already know where to slow down. It works pretty well. You can lure someone into running interference for you - Corvettes are famous for thei...
[13:43:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 473 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:31] <exec> 08└─ALL of those countries have lower average gun ownership than the US, or do you not understand that? What are in effect Gangs under Warlords terrorize the general populous into submission because only THEY have guns. And there are plenty of countries with similar gun ownership that DONT have such pro...
[13:44:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 743 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─First gut reaction: telescreen! Big Brother watches you. The panel is made of these LEDs that can detect light. Problem is it seems that a lens would be needed to focus light of the outer party members to be observed. And TVs could already be very cheaply be equipped with tiny cameras in the bezel....
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[14:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:22] <exec> 08└─A big implication of underestimating sources for which the global levels are known, is that one is also underestimating sinks. In other words, not only are we emitting more methane than expected, we're destroying more methane than expected as well. And this is not just an issue with a particular nic...
[14:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:24] <exec> 08└─Or at least mine some bitcoins with it.
[14:41:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:33] <exec> 08└─Except that as long as there is a government in practice, not just name, he cannot, even as ostensible head of the executive branch, unilaterally declare an end to the 2222 (XXI). Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon an...
[14:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:53] <exec> 08└─I thought I heard that the Outer Space Treaty was the WORST treaty EVER negotiated, and that the US was being RIPPED OFF and taken advantage of, and that the other nations were laughing at us. THAT'S why we have to withdraw from it.
[14:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:55] <exec> 08└─The Moon Treaty [wikipedia.org] was worse, but toothless since not of the space-faring countries signed it.
[14:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:57] <exec> 08└─Proper adults understand that other people don't need to get hurt for them to benefit. Positive sum solutions to problems are everywhere. With them in charge we'd have room for a lot more people here on earth.
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:59] <exec> 08└─Treaty broken in 1968
[14:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 3169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:38] <exec> 08└─I know that this may not be a popular opinion among some, but these people should be in jail. It is not, as Runaway claims, "awesome." It is beyond reckless. I'm not some "nanny state" loon -- but let's be honest with ourselves and recognize that these sorts of stunts needlessly endanger innocent pe...
[14:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─Different mechanism, completely different motion. A flying vehicle which generates thrust by flapping its wings like a bird is known as an ornithopter, and while the fluid dynamics are complex enough that we can't yet accurately simulate them, it's generally believed that the process is most efficie...
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:57] <exec> 08└─Not with this tech. Completely different motion, more like waving a fan in a duct rather than spinning a blade. And certainly nothing like flapping a wing. Frankly I'd be pretty impressed if they were able to generate even a fraction of the thrust for the same amount of power.
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─>which is it? Hmm... One is a render of their concept vehicle operating as designed. The others are a simulation and prototype where direction is irrelevant. Which do you think it is? Imaging asking the same question with SpaceX rocket engines: The animations all show the rocket flying vertically, b...
[14:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:02] <exec> 08└─As soon as the flap changes direction,it starts generating compression on the new "shrinking" side. Of course, halfway through that stroke (when the flapper is horizontal) the compression should start pushing air backwards(left) instead of forwards. My question is, why does the low-pressure blue reg...
[14:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, gun violence has gone down, so more guns is not a problem. But liberal education is a problem, even though things are getting better ! Typical conservatard mindset. "Things are getting better, but they'd get even moar better if we'd kill all the liberals ! MAGA !"
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:07] <exec> 08└─As if you've actually ever done that in real life. *facepalm* You pathetic basement-dwellers / keyboard-warriors crack me up. I'd give real money to be there when you're confronted for the first time with a situation where you have to take a life, actually take a human life, when you realize that's...
[14:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Inspiring Car Advert for this Time of No Cars - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:46] <exec> 08└─Brain fart... I looked at the post # when I did my math. Unfortunately I don't work in one of those fields where a single order of magnitude is considered close so no credit on this one.
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[15:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:02] <exec> 08└─Now if the earth is flat why can't we just walk over the edge and go and fetch us some of those heavy iron isotopes instead of them having to travel thru the crust like that. Shouldn't they also want to take the shortest route or path of least resistance?
[15:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:04] <exec> 08└─Seems like Earth is rotten to the core.
[15:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s an Unprecedented Look at Apollo 13’s Damaged Service Module - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:11] <exec> 08└─Here's one, https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[15:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:56] <exec> 08└─Even that appears to be too much work for our Toddler In Chief. Never mind the consequences should a private company's launch or operations damage anything belonging to a signatory. Assuming that Trump bothers to think about the consequences of his actions, which I admit is quite a huge assumption.
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─>With them in charge we'd have room for a lot more people here on earth. Not without some major changes we wouldn't. We're already grossly overtaxing the carrying capacity of the planet, strip-mining the ecology for short-term gains at thee expense of long-term viability. If we can get everyone on a...
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Yes they will. Earth will try and established control via Earthforce
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Strong property rights = government-enforced handouts to the rich. Why should the rest of us cooperate?
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─France and UK have nukes - invasion of the Scandinavian peninsula would be a big risk. OTOH it would be interesting, to see Russia bogged down fighting Scandinavian insurgents for the next 50 years. I believe the Scandinavian countries still have conscription for exactly this reason. What would be t...
[15:42:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─It's the free market baby!! If you can't find enough COBOL programmers then you aren't paying enough.
[15:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:16] <exec> 08└─It's the free market baby!!
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─I only ever "ran" once - he hadn't put his blue lights on yet so it doesn't really count, but... I was doing 70 in a 45, around 1am on a 14 mile long island where I'd bet the only two vehicles on the road were me and the cop. He came around the bend toward me and I had the "oh shit" moment, let off...
[15:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:47] <exec> 08└─Meh, they upgraded [youtube.com]
[15:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:49] <exec> 08└─No they didn't. There was only one Goodbye Pork Pie ever made, and that was in 1981. Anyone who claims otherwise is on the same kind of drugs as people who claim that there was more than one Highlander movie, or that Metallica released any albums after 1988.
[15:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:51] <exec> 08└─A case of too bad they never made any sequels [xkcd.com], eh? Ok, you convinced me, I'll look for the one and only Good Bye Pork Pie.
[15:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:16] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, it'd be interesting to see, say, newyorkers go that way. Central Park may need a name change tho.
[15:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:18] <exec> 08└─Home of the brave, my ass.
[15:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 5478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:36] <exec> 08└─You come across as a bad faith troll. That's the most logical way to characterize your behavior. I'm not Bot. I know you have some petulant rivalries with other users, but don't drag me into them. Grow up. Also, I posted my original comment for the purpose of stating that Christianity doesn't teach...
[15:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:04] <exec> 08└─If it's a size thing, then 'smaller is better' seems unintuative.
[15:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─I strongly resemble that remark!
[15:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─I brought it up because a global ID is the ultimate contact tracing. It also has many apparent advantages, as I point out. But just don't do it. Don't.
[15:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:56] <exec> 08└─Why did I link to that site? Because the topic is contact tracing. And that is a warning about the ultimate contact tracing. It would be amusing if the Trump Virus is what leads to this. And it is two words: Mole Station.
[15:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:40] <exec> 08└─It seems that APK has gone even farther off the deep end. It used to be that he aggressively defended his software and would angrily reply to anyone who questioned it. He would also get really mad at anyone who discussed him living in a $1 house or anything like that. Now, it seems like his hate is...
[15:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:41] <exec> 08└─That's trivial: https://support.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] The problem is the selection logic is hardcoded into the widgets and it takes 3 and half hours to build firefox on a build server so patching it up on your own is too much: https://hydra.nixos.org [nixo...
[15:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Do the New Remdesivir Data Mean? - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:14] <exec> 08└─No need to wax mysterious and call everyone to convert to the new faith. We the laypeople experimentally study a lot of viruses firsthand when we and those we know either get sick from them or don't. Denouncing common sense is a firm step on the path to madness. Besides, the priesthood dropped the b...
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[15:49:16] <exec> 08└─I've seen a lot of fearmongering blogs but NOT ONE LINK to any scientific source reporting of such a case related to COVID-19. If anyone here has seen such a report, please give a link to it.
[15:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Inspiring Car Advert for this Time of No Cars - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:11] <exec> 08└─Our (USA) outstanding pandemic management skills should be no surprise to anyone. See, we're equipped with a healthy supply of both arrogance AND ignorance. It's part of our religious culture. No matter how bad our situation is, we're the best! USA! USA! USA!
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[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:05] <exec> 08└─Raspberry Pi, not just for hobbyists, saving lives as well.
[16:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:33] <exec> 08└─You would think that the oil companies would do everything in their power to capture it. Costs too much
[16:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:35] <exec> 08└─You won't like this, but what you described is a clear failure of capitalism. Instead of capturing that energy potential the owners decided they would rather burn off the troubleshom byproducts instead of investing in better infrastructure. Why? Because it would cost a lot to improve the refinery an...
[16:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─If you look at the dramatic increse in atmoshperic methane concentration [wikipedia.org] you see that those sinks are not nearly up to the task.
[16:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:39] <exec> 08└─Somewhat ironically, they're flaring that gas to eliminate the very methane under discussion.
[16:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─Sure, but if the companies are using Trump EO, then that means they are "flying under the flag" of the US.
[16:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:17] <exec> 08└─> Strong property rights = government-enforced handouts to the rich Weak property rights = everyone needs to run their own personal army. Like it or not, enforcing property rights (in whatever form) is the core task of government.
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─Didn't RTFA or RTFS, but how else would we be able to do thinks like "3D Print a moonbase out of regolith", dig for water, etc without this being okay? It doesn't say mining dust to launch it at the Chinese, does it? Or am I presuming too much?
[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─Extra points if you translate that into FORTRAN.
[16:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:05] <exec> 08└─> Run a bike that gets better than 50 mpg, Doesn't exist...mileage is much worse at high speeds. I don't have any data, but a couple of comments here suggest that race bikes like at the Isle of Man get 10-12 miles/gallon (that might be Imperial gallon, it doesn't say): https://forums.anandtech.com
[16:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:07] <exec> 08└─All your arguments are perfectly logical, but there is a problem. As far as I know, no one has been seriously hurt during any of the Cannonballs, starting with Brock Yates' original in the '70s. The key is that the interstate highway system is damn safe, it only seems scary-unsafe because it's so bi...
[16:44:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:13] <exec> 08└─hysterical idiots trying to make sure only bad guys and the government (but I repeat myself) have guns.
[16:44:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:17] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. Yet another case of 'we have to find SOME way to spin this as an anti trump anti right anti gun thing, NO MATTER WHAT' And hey, I don't even particularly like guns. This is just saying they don't need the people to come in to the shop to pick them up, thereby reducing possible expo...
[16:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:35] <exec> 08└─The percentage of shit-scared idiots must be high in that home of the brave of yours.
[16:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:37] <exec> 08└─Going out on a limb here, but I doubt you're the type of person who would criticize the Japanese internment camps, or support gay marriage, or be interested in giving Native Americans some of their land back. Just guns and Jesus amirite?
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─Instead got a drive by churching up...
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─Just pay? JUST PAY?!? We don't pay the US Post Office just to have a mailbox, and to receive letters. Only pay to send letters. The post office should have gone online more than 20 years ago. But nooo, that might be unfair competition to Yahoo, because government! Paying Yahoo for email services, wh...
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 75.0 Released! - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─I found an OpenGL ES application written in C that's a skeleton of a Minecraft clone. It can be cross-compiled to WebAssembly. On Linux C-to-native, it gets 60 fps using 6% of one CPU core. On Chrome on Linux running it in WebAssembly, it gets 60 fps using 12% of one CPU core. On Firefox on Linux r...
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[17:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─So did SpaceX choose wisely in going with steel instead of aluminum? Or tin. Mining asteroids is probably as important as colonizing mars, in order to get the belter generations started. But imagine if we could mine even a tiny bit of the iron in the Earth's core.
[17:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:38] <exec> 08└─They are mostly based on emission factors provided by the EPA. The misunderstanding is that they're intended to be precise, not necessarily accurate, since they're intended to be used to monitor trends.
[17:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:39] <exec> 08└─the EPA
[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, but Runaway was talking about the amount of energy lost to such flaring. I decided it was a teachable moment, and besides the methane isn't simply eliminated but converted into air pollution without even the reward of producing electricity or heat. We desperately need conservatives to bridge th...
[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─Science is hard. I'm sorry that conflicts with your oversimplified model of reality. The EPA provided guidance for calculating emissions without direct monitoring, which was their job. Direct monitoring will obviously be more accurate than calculated emissions. This shocks no one who understands the...
[17:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─Ideological partisanship? Maybe you're confusing me with Fusty or someone? I have acknowledged many times that sometimes regulation is necessary. In fact, I mentioned that Houston has cleaned up it's act tremendously in recent decades. And, I hope that I didn't sound disapproving of the clean up. In...
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─Sadly we have evil people on this planet. Some types have been killing and taking over others for centuries. They just take. They may very well claim the moon as their prophet split it and reformed it centuries ago.
[17:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─They were managing it. Saying to themselves: "I sure hope I retire before the statistics of this risk catch up."
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─It's been 40 years since I did COBOL back at University.
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:45] <exec> 08└─If you can't find enough COBOL programmers
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─Talk to SAP about converting the COBOL systems to ABAP
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─The sad part about this response is that it is a troll, true, what business has tried and failed to do, and will most likely be done to address "that legacy system maintenance cost issue". Problem is they rarely factor in TCO for Golfware. SAP charges per user. So if you service an entire health sys...
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:22] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add that we knew Brock Yates and heard him give a talk about the idea at a sports car event, some months before the first Cannonball. Long before the 'net, he gave his talk to various racing groups to build interest and attract competitors. If we wanted we could have had an entry...but for...
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─Gotta disagree. I've had a Honda GL500 for years. 54 mpg, give or take just a little, no matter whether I'm pushing it to the limit, or cruising around like an old man. My boy's Yamaha 650 gets real close to 60 mpg, and I've never ridden it unless I was hammering it. 56 to 59 mpg, which is slightly...
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 2676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[17:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─. . . this makes sense. They're still doing all the checks needed to buy a gun, . . .
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─XML is like Violence. If it isn't working, use more.
[17:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:00] <exec> 08└─Just go out in the yard and do the wormy-dog scoot. I don't see a problem here.
[17:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not against second amendment rights. I just don't want crazy people to have guns. Fact: all school shootings and other mass shootings are done by crazy people with guns. How do we fix this. (I don't think it is by making everyone have a gun, because "everyone" includes crazy people. So nothing w...
[17:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. Mission not accomplished until you can ALSO get drive through alcoholic beverages and guns together. Please remember to use guns responsibly after drinking.
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─Is education really liberal? Or does education make people think for themselves, not accept everything at face value, question things, etc?
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─Alright, if you insist, you have a brave ass. I really don't know what benefits you gain from it, but yes, you have a very brave ass.
[17:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Demand Reported for TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate Packaging - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─Yet you haven't done better yourself big talker since it seems to work where I saw links of it being very effective against malware where apk tore apart barbara hudson on many technical grounds https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] i...
[17:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Perovskite-Based Diode Capable of Both Light Emission and Detection - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:59] <exec> 08└─At least he has a dick barbara hudson. You don't after you had yours sawed off tranny https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] proven there and you don't deny it.
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956 barbara hudson's IMPERSONATING me, again, for my confronting "it" (she/him/heshe/shim, lol) for impersonating ME "apologizing to 'it'" (I say "it" because IT is a disgusting abomination tranny) when I never did (why would I? "it" is a fucking disgusting CREEP WEIRDO of the HIGHEST ORDER...
[17:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Do the New Remdesivir Data Mean? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:12] <exec> 08└─I thought it was hilarious how apk showed how completely technically incompetent barbara hudson the big talking blabbermouth tranny is point by point here https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] proving barbara hudson is nothing but a...
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[18:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─RasPI runs Linux most commonly. And a few other OSes. I think there is even an OS that is more arduino-like but runs on RasPI. So what OS is used in this medical application?
[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─systemdOS, duh.
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─Hopefully an OS that doesn't need the patient to hold his breath while 1 GB of security fixes download.
[18:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─So what OS is used in this medical application?
[18:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:29] <exec> 08└─Or gold. It's probably easier to mine asteroids than the core.
[18:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:32] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there would be incentive to mine gold from asteroids. And other rare-"earth" metals that have industrial and commercial uses. Gold has practical uses beyond jewelry and hoarding up gold bars. I'm not sure I actually understand why it is valued so highly other than its rarity. But other rare...
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─Not expecting simple, am expecting that the EPA is basically owned by industry, perhaps outlier industry players will be brought into line by the EPA, but the bulk of industry tells EPA what is reasonable. Nothing shocking here, I lived in Houston (Clear Lake, by NASA), I had the daily tar dust sett...
[18:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:01] <exec> 08└─Either way, this passes my first and second gates -- a journal citation/in a presumably reputable one. Makes it much easier to filter stuff from "book"s that don't have anything to back up what they present on their "face".
[18:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─The most sensible way to fund such a government would be a tax on the value of that land. You own land, you want a government to protect it, you pay your membership fee.
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─Every exponential curve is really a logistic curve. Humankind cannot continue exponential power growth forever.
[18:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:06] <exec> 08└─What a horrible afterlife that would be - repeatedly raised as a zombie to fix the same damn code you worked on in life...
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─In the year 9997 we will have transporters, replicators, unlimited energy and resources for all. That will be about the year everyone suddenly realizes the Y10K problem. All code will need to be updated for five digit years. There will be a sudden demand for people who know COBOL. Then there will be...
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─Do tell [youtube.com]*. By your logic none of the Space Shuttles could have been destroyed because none of them had ever had a fatal problem. Until Challenger. I don't care how many controls they have. If fatal accidents can happen on racetracks where conditions are as controlled as they can be then...
[18:44:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─If everybody has a gun, even the bad guys act good.
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, it's really nice to live somewhere that, when reading a tech news website, the first thing I associate with "AR" is "Augmented Reality" .
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:44] <exec> 08└─I won't take any mark or vaccine.
[18:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:45] <exec> 08└─Better than a drive by shooting?
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─It did say: 1.33 Tb of storage capacity. But what about cost?
[18:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:10] <exec> 08└─[...] * stores can display the correct ads as you approach the store front -- even if you don't have a phone [...]
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[19:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:07] <exec> 08└─how to make pls. sned infos now!
[19:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:08] <exec> 08└─Is this a useful step toward a material to build a space elevator?
[19:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think Windows runs on this hardware.
[19:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:22] <exec> 08└─It is fairly likely to be a Linux variant, a stable Debian derivative would do fine. Remember that Windows has found its way into a number of medical appliances ranging from CT scanners to X-ray machines. A ventilator is a relatively simple device control-wise, it has a number of sensors which need...
[19:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:24] <exec> 08└─You mean, simply: systemd The OS part is "absorbed" into systemd. The kernel will be absorbed. And . . . You know how parking enforcement can put a boot on your car? Well now you can do the same thing to your computer! Introducing systemd-boot. It's better than GRUB, well, because. Next the hardware...
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─Hopefully an OS that doesn't need the patient to hold his breath while 1 GB of security fixes download.
[19:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─So if you, like me, have been thinking about getting into Pi for a while this is not the time. If you can get one, you might be diverting it from life-saving purposes. That depends on the board though. If you can get one of the boards they're not using, I suppose it's all good and a great way to kee...
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Other_applications [wikipedia.org] Electronics, nanoparticles, and more. Iron is just sickeningly common, particularly in asteroids. If we could land asteroid chunks on Earth (might be possible with a heat shield [soylentnews.org]), we could mine from a surface lan...
[19:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─> ...if we could mine even a tiny bit of the iron in the Earth's core. Wouldn't that be more like drilling for oil? Sink a shaft into the core and liquid iron gushes out (along with other nastys similar to a volcano). Maybe the fancy new "stronger than diamond" carbon material (current SN story) cou...
[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:12] <exec> 08└─Fustakritch is less partisan than you, just FYI. And no, we can not drop the issue of ideological partisanship. Any time Trump is criticized you come back with the super clever "TDS!" and proceed to ignore his corruption. He installed wolves to guard the henhouses. If you can't get that straight the...
[19:42:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─The first colony to raise a few generations of native born children, and become capable of feeding themselves, will become de facto independent, and do whatever the hell they want to.
[19:42:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─Proper adults understand that other people don't need to get hurt for them to benefit. Positive sum solutions to problems are everywhere. With them in charge we'd have room for a lot more people here on earth.
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:56] <exec> 08└─Either we expand into space, or we face eventual stagnation and decline on Earth in the not too distant future.
[19:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:57] <exec> 08└─what a goofy bastard
[19:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:59] <exec> 08└─This historically was not really how things worked. See: Homestead Acts [wikipedia.org]. The thing is that there's a whole lot more land than there are people. And everybody tends to be benefit when land is developed. This is why during the westward expansion of America land was literally given away...
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:22] <exec> 08└─if dumb whores would quit working for these scumbags they wouldn't get away with treating people like that.
[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─How is that working out right now with Macron ordering indefinite imprisonment for every Frenchman? Apparently migrants have free hand though, the government is considering letting them open their stores so they stop rioting. If the autochthonous French had the balls, they could possibly have their...
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:38] <exec> 08└─Look, fucktard, There is not supposed to be any standing federal army overseas fucking with everybody. The citizenry are supposed to be the defense for the nation. Also, the 2a is mostly about killing tyrannical government workers when necessary, even if kids aren't being taught this in our recently...
[19:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not Bot either, and I'm not the original poster. I'm just commenting. Your lack understanding. Your option 3 is correct. There IS free will in Heaven and there IS sin. He's called Satan, Lucifer, ... And there is a 1/3 of the angels IN HEAVEN that are being judged with this dude. So in essences...
[19:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:26] <exec> 08└─Fuck right off and get a life. If someone "impersonates" you, then maybe you should create an account. You know how that works, click on the "create account" icon, fill out the necessary form, supply either a real or a throwaway email account, wait for a confirmation email, confirm, and BOOM! you ar...
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[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought too, but it's worth remembering that, at least at the moment, you need a microscope to see the pieces they build. Much better, for now, to save the space elevator for worlds with lower gravity, so that cables that can actually be built are relatively feasible. For Earth and...
[20:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:20] <exec> 08└─I would expect that is the model they are going with. However, that model is ridiculously hard to get in quantity and the Raspberry Pi Zero W model is afflicted with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Low Energy and is much more common.
[20:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:21] <exec> 08└─Just get a Pi 4. You won't find that in any ventilator.
[20:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:23] <exec> 08└─Hopefully FreeBSD, FreeRTOS
[20:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:26] <exec> 08└─There are dozens of knock off and variations from the Pi.
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-windows-10-iot-raspberry-pi-3 [windowscentral.com]
[20:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:45] <exec> 08└─>With them in charge we'd have room for a lot more people here on earth. Not without some major changes we wouldn't. We're already grossly overtaxing the carrying capacity of the planet, strip-mining the ecology for short-term gains at thee expense of long-term viability. If we can get everyone on a...
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─I just realized that we're allowing a criminal president to run in the next election. The US system has failed, with the GOP throwing Molotovs everywhere. If Trump is voted out we'll have a 4 year reprieve to try and rally for true reforms, if he wins the election and conservatives continue to suppo...
[20:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─Even that appears to be too much work for our Toddler In Chief.
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─Land tax! What a good idea! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:03] <exec> 08└─Note that a lot of European colonisation in the 18th century was driven by private interests. For example, the British East India company led colonisation in the Indian subcontinent; and likewise colonisation in much of south east asia was driven by private enterprise. Nonetheless I don't think anyo...
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:05] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[20:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:29] <exec> 08└─This article made me feel Jovial.
[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, your YouTube link to all the accidents tends to support my point that the Interstates are pretty safe. Only a few of the scenes shown were on divided Interstate highways. Most were surface streets, a few with snow or other bad weather (which is avoided by Cannonballers). The video makers h...
[20:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:29] <exec> 08└─which orientation will generate thrust? which will generate lift? if you're using a wing for lift, it won't hover. None of the drawings has a horizontal wing.. so The models show lift from a blade moving with a blade behind it fixed. none of the renders show the two blades (moving/fixed pair), so th...
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[20:44:30] <exec> 08└─Wtf... APK tell your medical professional that your meds are either not working, or maybe your quarantine-delivery person gave you the wrong ones, because you're fucking off your rocker. Hudson has bullshitted in the past but she (yes, she) has been good of late, and her post here wasn't trolling. Y...
[20:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:50] <exec> 08└─Do you really believe your guns would give you even the slightest chance against the government's professional military equipment?
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─It's more about supply and demand than cost. If China is making their own NAND in any significant amounts, demand from Samsung, Micron et al. drop and prices will drop. We should be approaching $75/TB soon.
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:39] <exec> 08└─Why would I be a FAKENAME wannabe like you for? LOL, no thanks - like you said, I actually PRODUCE THINGS OF VALUE for others... do you? Not that I've seen but you're welcome to prove me wrong (did you write it yourself IF you have? Let's see it then, in fairness - doubt you have). * Taking THAT "to...
[20:50:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:08] <exec> 08└─I especially liked the part where individual US cities and states were bidding each other, and FEMA, up on eBay seeking the same product.
[20:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:35] <exec> 08└─Medical gear also has some of the biggest liability exposure of any class of products. Watch TV for some of the ads proving this. Got news for you, sunshine. Insurance doesn't pay more than one goddamn dime than they have to. Their business is not paying doctors and hospitals, their business is MAKI...
[20:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:36] <exec> 08└─And that is the point where a Government will step in to protect it's people if it is price gouging. Yes, I expect that a vendor will keep their prices equal to the same profit margin in the midst of a crisis. They can raise prices if their expenses go up. Because the company doing that will face pe...
[20:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Prioritizes $15k Ventilators Over Cheaper Model Specified in Contract - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:38] <exec> 08└─Best data says that the asymptomatic cases seem to be about 50% of the known cases. Not 50% of all people. I think the data I've been seeing suggests a death rate of 1-3% of known cases leading to known infection rate of 5-10%, which would put the unknown cases at about 20% of the population total....
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[21:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:58] <exec> 08└─The Baltimore Police Dept. seems to be a huge fan of the movie - Enemy of the State ( https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org] ). 1984 is here already !!! Sigh !
[21:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:00] <exec> 08└─Coverage 90pc is nice margin to not be looking when the brute squad is busy clearing a nest one sunday.
[21:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s an Unprecedented Look at Apollo 13’s Damaged Service Module - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:52] <exec> 08└─The dialog that was real seemed real. The fictional dialog stood out. After the explosion, in the movie there was a conflict in the crew. They argued and blamed each other, which was unproductive and generally harmful. When I saw the movie, that really broke the spell for me. Instantly, all I could...
[21:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─You're talking real estate - "property" includes all forms of wealth - money, tools, etc. Also, the Homestead act was possible precisely *because* strong property laws were ignored. That land was flat out stolen from the natives to give wealth to the invaders.
[21:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:08] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Now - do you want to have that argument head-on with the same power structure that has kept a lead foot on the accelerator for centuries while they're rapidly destroying our world, quite possibly the only naturally habitable world humanity will ever know? Knowing that we probably have no...
[21:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:33] <exec> 08└─barbara hudson and yes it is obviously you I am replying to, are you saying it's ok for you to impersonate apk as you clearly did since he destroyed you completely in that 2nd link APK posted before your reply I replied to now, where quoted proof from you stalking and harassing apk is cited and wher...
[21:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:34] <exec> 08└─Look more carefully at the renders. For the big "plate" one at the top of the article, you have long fixed plates attached to the horizontal struts, with the shorter stationary "wings" attached at the bottom, and less clearly fastened "flappers" at the top. It's a sandwich of wide downward-pointing...
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─Is education really liberal? Or does education make people think for themselves, not accept everything at face value, question things, etc?
[21:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:56] <exec> 08└─Not my state -- the article is out of CA but I've seen a number of similar articles from various places. The fact is, buying a firearm is absolutely loaded with bureaucracy but if you listen to politicians, they lie and say it's easy peasy. Anyway, to your point, only a moron would feel invincible w...
[21:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 2660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:42] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
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[22:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:59] <exec> 08└─But stop hogging the doobie and pass it around.
[22:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:00] <exec> 08└─The paper without paywall: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[22:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:02] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2. Yes, there's a number in it. Two. Not infinitely-large -- it is, indeed, impossible to compute with infinitely-large numbers. m=E/c^2 Mathematics is the relation and manipulation of things. Sometimes simple numbers come in as a simplification: y=2x We could write them without the numbers (y...
[22:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:04] <exec> 08└─What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong? His choice of a barber? Beyond that I guess it was mostly fine.
[22:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:06] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2 is not relativity - it's the formula for one tiny aspect of relativity, the latent energy of a mass at rest. There's also no numbers in it. None. You only get numbers when you plug in specific values for the various symbols. Values that will be finite. Not just finite in size, but also finite...
[22:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not supporting or denying relativity. I have my own problems with that. I'm saying that mathematics is mathematics. We're using laws, as they relate between things. At the end, we can plug numbers in and get numbers out, but whatever their precision is doesn't impact the laws from which those nu...
[22:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:19] <exec> 08└─Baltimore is a crap hole of murder. I don't think the ACLU is helping Baltimorons by taking away visibility of crime from the police. I don't think the ACLU cares.
[22:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:21] <exec> 08└─"It is equivalent to having a police officer follow us, each of us, outside all the time " Nothing wrong with that. I choose to be followed by the hot little brunette who gave me a traffic ticket last summer.
[22:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:23] <exec> 08└─"It is equivalent to having a police officer follow us, each of us, outside all the time in case we might commit a crime," said David Rocah, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Maryland. "If that happened in real life, everyone would clearly understand the privacy and First Amendment implications,...
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:54] <exec> 08└─That's not Windows. It doesn't even have a GUI.
[22:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-on-arm-is-running-on-raspberry-pi-4-and-so-much-faster-than-pi-3 [techradar.com] https://www.windowslatest.com [windowslatest.com] Full Windows 10 (not the IoT version) can run on RasPi 3 and 4. P...
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:10] <exec> 08└─The other kind of core dump.
[22:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe the cows are like negroes... jailed but innocent.
[22:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:45] <exec> 08└─》 methane eating bacteria The problem with your theory is that methane floats, so unless you invent tiny little airplanes for these methane eating bacteria they won't be able to do any good.
[22:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe repeal the interstate commerce clause then because he will use the powers granted there to back up his claim. And he won't be wrong because that clause allows this. At the end of the day every party in history has taken for itself more power when it was in the position of the executive because...
[22:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:04] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that many states are in this because they are too cheap and the only reason IBM is helping is to not lose market and money. IBM is apparently extending sweetheart deals on scaling their mainframes that they could otherwise charge for and are probably worried about states...
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre Volerian Aircraft Design Replaces Jets and Props with Flapping Wings - 2981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Why? No, seriously, think about it for a minute. Battery tech is big business, and is beginning to advance rapidly. A startup developing new vehicles and propulsion technologies based on where battery tech will be in 10-20 years once your technology is mature is good business sense. There's a risk t...
[22:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─Powder is not lead. Lead is inert. Powder is the magic freedom dust that makes lead freedom seeds fly. As for the lead, most slugs are in the 7/8oz to 1 1/8oz range (25 - 32 grams) -- there could be negative consequences to one's shotgun and personal safety shooting too heavy projectiles.
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─They expect me to have to go to a drive through and actually get out of my chair?
[22:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is the co-option of the word "liberal" by the likes of the woke left, antifa, and the Clintons.
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[23:40:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:59] <exec> 08└─The paper without paywall: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[23:41:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:02] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2 is not relativity - it's the formula for one tiny aspect of relativity, the latent energy of a mass at rest. There's also no numbers in it. None. You only get numbers when you plug in specific values for the various symbols. Values that will be finite. Not just finite in size, but also finite...
[23:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:06] <exec> 08└─Ok I hear you, but. It's not to do with infinite size; it's that there's infinite precision in the irrationals. Q=rationals (expressible as fractions), Q=reals (which include irrationals and rationals). Q and R are not the same. If I have two elements, A and B, in Q, A*B and A-B and A^B and A/B so o...
[23:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:08] <exec> 08└─He was wrong about Λ. Not the first time, the time he second-guessed himself about it.
[23:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:10] <exec> 08└─Pi, as an example, is not a "number with infinite precision" Look, if you have a rational-valued diameter in a system where pi has finite precision (eg. in "base pi" instead of decimal "base 10" or binary etc), then the relation will have an irrational circumference. The "just a relation" embeds tha...
[23:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:12] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-Fueled will be along shortly to point out how Einstein was a Jew, and therefore relativity is just a plot by Zionists to help Mexicans destroy the purity and essence of our natural fluids. Also, Einstein should have just stayed in Berlin, nothing bad would have happened to him, oh no.
[23:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this paper is all about stating what everyone already knows, and takes into account.
[23:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:17] <exec> 08└─He got fired, he's probably close to death by alcohol poisoning by now.
[23:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, pi ids defined as the ratio of circumference to diameter - but try to compute the exact value of it, through any of a multitude of techniques, and you'll find that you'd need infinitely many digits to represent it. And, while it seems at first glance that the existence or non-existence of infin...
[23:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─The author of TFA has a problem with both, saying [arxiv.org] that no construct of this Universe is going to allow you to measure π or sqrt(2) with infinite precision. 1. “Truncated real numbers”. A first possibility is to consider physical variables as takingvalues in a set of “truncated rea...
[23:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─The proofs of irrational existence all rely on the continuity of the real number line. If you deny that, then the proofs fall apart. And the proofs of that are basically "we can't see any other way it could work" or "well, you just keep repeating this operation an infinite number of times". But invo...
[23:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:25] <exec> 08└─Like every other time I got fired in history. And the only thing I can actually point out here besides anti-Jew shitposting is that the Jews who wrote Star Trek: The Next Generation mentioned the cosmological constant in the episode where Broccoli becomes smart. Wasn't that the cosmological constant...
[23:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:27] <exec> 08└─This cannot possibly affect a single physical calculation. If you can't construct the numbers you can't use them and you can't get them as results. But if you take this train of logic to its extreme, you run into the impossibility of enumerating the *rest* of the numbers unless you pick an arbitrary...
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─No, you need tensile and shear strength for that. A space elevator is basically a string. Diamonds make for really shitty string. Making harder diamond doesn't help. What we need is string that can withstand being used to swing around a satellite.
[23:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:11] <exec> 08└─'eh, likely some stripped down version of Linux. Whether it's a modified Rasbian or otherwise.
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─That's what the dinosaurs thought... and look what landing an asteroid on earth did to them.
[23:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─Once a lot of gold were mined, the value of gold would decrease.
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─Bullshit trolling The Venn diagram of lifelong 3rd party voters and Trump apologists is joined only by the circle marked liars. So you're either a shill pushing a narrative, a simple liar trying to gain credibility for internet points, or a really fucked up human being with wildly contradictory beli...
[23:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:57] <exec> 08└─He's a sick human being our little Lord of the Flies orange dingus https://twitter.com [twitter.com] For you lazies or non-JS people: Tell the Democrat Governors that "Mutiny On The Bounty" was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny...
[23:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:24] <exec> 08└─I was going to attempt your challenge, but then I saw what you did there. Poor AC won't even know what hit them.
[23:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:52] <exec> 08└─People are buying all these guns to sit at home and shoot COVID-19? Are these the same people that shoot at hurricanes? Shoot the turds off when the toilet paper runs out? There is no gigantic increase in crime nor coming apocalypse where you would need quick access to guns. So why are people panic...
[23:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:54] <exec> 08└─There is no gigantic increase in crime nor coming apocalypse where you would need quick access to guns.
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