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[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─Not enough social distancing. ;)
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─Florida is made of lakes, they could land in one of them. Easier to keep the pleasure boats out of those.
[00:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─It's NASA job.
[00:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─They had to do that. A Notice to Mariners is just like a NOTAM (NOtice To AirMen), except on water. It's just that apparently you don't get in as much trouble for violating one. They send out notices to keep responsible boaters away, so you don't have some poor sap setting crab-pots or whatever and...
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─NASA was paying for the flight, and they are NASA astronauts.. be interesting to see what the support contracts cover - NASA site, NASA and SpaceX technicians, SpaceX recovery and support.. Coast Guard is probably involved because they know there is risk from the public nearby.. but some events are...
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─If it sank and they got in the way. Divers getting hit by propellers. ITAR information getting out. Space alien virus?
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─The Coast Guard is in the DHS. The Coast Guard is the only federal policing body in US waters and I think up to 100ft into the land.
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─gators
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─> Maybe they can overshoot Florida, and land in deeper waters in the Atlantic? They have a recovery ship in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic side of Florida. They went with the Gulf for this one because of a Tropical Storm on the Atlantic side. This time it really didn't matter that boats ca...
[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─Deep water makes it hard to recover a sunken capsule to do post-flight failure analysis (Gus Hrissom Mercury Liberty Bell 7).
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship cruise missiles.
[00:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:07] <exec> 08└─They are the water police, and businesses also pay taxes. If you call 911 because a bunch of bikers are swarming around you, why should the cops respond? Now what if you also had a bunch of ITAR secrets the Chinese/Russians/Israelis/Japanese/Germans would love to get?
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─This is private enterprise running it they should do their own security....so why should tax payers pay for this ?
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─They have boats?
[00:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship SN5 Conducts Successful 150-Meter Flight Test - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─I understand the raptor engine is a full flow methane engine. Maybe you're into something.
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship SN5 Conducts Successful 150-Meter Flight Test - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─Got it... Nazi soldier 1: Vy ist you eating baked beans, Heinrich? Nazi soldier 2: Need gas for killing der Juden. Werner von Braun: Nein! If you kill all der Juden who will build mien rockets? Nazi soldier 1: Why not reuse the one you already have? Werner von Braun: Oberleutnant Elon, you ist ein G...
[00:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─They always test on animals before moving on to Phase 2 trials on humans.
[00:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:19] <exec> 08└─Covid is turning out to be the worlds greatest IQ test.
[00:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─> (For the record, caught the bug early March from someone who'd caught it from someone who'd caught it in Italy and brought it back here...) Please tell us more. What, if any, symptoms, side effects, timing, etc.
[00:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:23] <exec> 08└─Wait wait ... wouldn't you want to vaccinate your phone AGAINST 5G so that you won't get COVID?
[00:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:31] <exec> 08└─How much and how long was it sitting there? Sounds like they were making the stuff rather than just letting it sit in some random warehouse for six years.
[00:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:54] <exec> 08└─There are viruses, phages, and bacteria that live in harmony with their hosts - they get the most propagation.
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[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─Uh guys? Somebody roll the commercial [youtu.be]
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─It's simply costs moving exercise. Musk's flights look so cheap simply because our government takes many bills under the radar. Note that there is no negativity in my statement. All serious capitalist's startups need public help way more than most realize. That's why a statement that all the money s...
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the locals were on the scene first, so if it sank they would be the rescuers, but yes I'm sure SpaceX don't want a bunch of people hanging about and getting in the way, which seems fair.
[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─I imagine it is no fun bobbing around violently inside the capsule if boaters are inconsiderate enough to cause wakes. And a larger craft colliding with the capsule could perhaps cause deaths-- remember, a percentage greater than 0 of these boat pilots are drunk.
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Will Resume Missions in August Following Launch Failure - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─Destroy at least one customer payload.
[01:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:11] <exec> 08└─Sounded to me like vaccinating your phone so it gets 5G. What could go wrong?
[01:25:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Police Bodycam Footage Shows George Floyd Arrest in Detail - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─The video of Tamir Rice very clearly showed why it was that the cops were justified in shooting him. If you take people's word for it, you'd think that he was a little boy that was executed for no reason by the cops.
[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─Until 1995 your local hardware store had pallet loads of ammonium nitrate 34-0-0 fertilizer. Lighting it on fire isn't usually sufficient to detonate it. It can be sensitized with e.g. aluminum powder, but the unsensitized stuff is safer than gasoline usually.
[01:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:58] <exec> 08└─No. Please no. Tea is filthy and if you leave it in the sun it gets to the perfect temperature for all the nasty microbes to grow like crazy. It is incredibly dangerous. Consider cold brew tea instead! https://www.foodsafetynews.com [foodsafetynews.com] https://...
[01:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:00] <exec> 08└─Even here in the US i have an electric kettle, and used a stovetop and saucepan when i didn't. The idea of a nuke oven for anything aside from convenience foods is odd to me.
[01:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:47] <exec> 08└─Specifically name one or more viral strains that meets your criteria.
[01:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:48] <exec> 08└─A lot of them are picked up from the mother, including during passage through the birth canal (the increased rate of cesareans is associated with lower immune response). There's also via skin to skin contact between mother and child, and from the environment. 9/10 of all the cells in your body aren'...
[01:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:51] <exec> 08└─Soap kills off the handy skin bacteria that keep you from stinking [theguardian.com] There's been a ton of articles on the phenomenon, same as too-clean environments screwing up your immune system.
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[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─I've been participating, but when the highs for the day are above 30 I leave the computer off. But look up: I probably will be a sucker for one of the new graphics cards from AMD, Nvidia, or Intel when they are released.
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─To everyone who's contributed to the site over the years, large or small - thank you! SN has become my primary site for nerdy news and commentary, and overall I must say the quality of the discourse should be considered amazing considering this is the internet. Sure we have our share of spam and tro...
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─But Taky is a genuine asset to SN, not to diminish the roles the others play, marty, buzzy, ncom, chromas, even fnord (well...). Taky subs are consistently ... well ... you know ... almost as good as quality aristachu subs. Note the qualifier "quality" here.
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks so much for the journal cites at the bottom of the articles, with the nice additional formatting. It's very helpful to know which articles are based on a journal article and allow for follow-up to the original source.
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─What about the QSOAs? Quality Subs of Aristarchus? I don't think they exist. *RARRWWWWWRRR*
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:10] <exec> 08└─Drunk, and flying Trump 2020 flags. Definitely deplorables rich enough to be dangerous.
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:12] <exec> 08└─How many machine guns can be mounted to a Dragon capsule?
[02:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:14] <exec> 08└─It should probably be: "Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Assholes." [...]
[02:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─You would get COVID. The logic goes like this 5G causes COVID. Vaccinations cause autism. If you vaccinate your phone against 5G the phone won't get 5G but it might get autism. But at least you won't get COVID from your phone's 5G and you won't be the one to get autism because it's your phone that's...
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[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─What kind of porn? Interracial? Gangbang? Double penetration? Tentacle hentai? Romantic anal?
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─5023 screens of goatse. Did you know the Doom game was modeled after Hoover Dam?
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:37] <exec> 08└─Jaffa calling [youtube.com]
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─It has turned everything into a 737 Nothing has done a better job of revealing human idiocy. Kang and Kodos must have a saucer full of popcorn. They will die laughing. Maybe this is how we defeat the aliens
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─It is so great that you recognize all the soylentils who submit fine articles to keep SoylentNews what it is.
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─Dipshit!
[03:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─And now you know the secrets of the Fire Swamp. By any chance, do you have six fingers on your right hand?
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─You might like it on top, but we ACs will catch you!!!
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─"Obviously, we would have to abide by a lawful order like a DMCA notice." Is that a canary that just died?
[03:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─You ain't gonna catch shit. Taky, we got yo back. Signed, AC Delta Force.
[03:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─Please do.
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:06] <exec> 08└─Handling DMCA notices doesn't require secrecy. National Security Letters (NSLs) might.
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[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─Neat -- like ours with freezer on the bottom.
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[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone know why spellchecker isn't catching everything here, but works everywhere else?
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[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work for me in the "Subject" box, but works in this comment box. Never understood why, don't really care. If I want to spell check my subject, I copy it and paste in this box (temporarily).
[03:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:46] <exec> 08└─If the capsule hits the water hard enough to break and start sinking, would the occupants be alive at that point? As for the boaters, there were toxic fumes (leftover SuperDraco propellant, I think) being emanated from the capsule.
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[03:24:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there's a relation.
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[03:28:09] <exec> 08└─in 2020.
[03:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:11] <exec> 08└─Also, the population of West, Texas where the plant was located, has a population of under 3000 people. Beirut has a population of somewhere around 400,000 people. One of the little things that the developed world has figured out is to keep the more hazardous activities like ammonium nitrate storage...
[03:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:13] <exec> 08└─And the population affected by this horrible accident? They had to evacuate 1700 people!
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:15] <exec> 08└─Proof of aliens?
[03:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:46] <exec> 08└─Bacteriophages - viruses that kill bacteria. Used as a treatment when no antibiotic works. see story [huffingtonpost.ca]. I saw a CBC documentary on this last month.
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[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─Max Headroom would've been funnier. Imagine the insults. Hmmm...
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:35] <exec> 08└─Prison rape obviously.
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─Well, it's definitely done a great job of showing just how bumbling and incompetent most of our world leaders and authorities are.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─I didn't know you submitted over 9660 stories! That's a lot!
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─All y'all must really love what you are doing. One can make that amount of money mowing lawns over a summer. My hat is off to you because I use your service every day. How do we fix this so your heavily volunteered time gets paid?
[04:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─Do boaters need a license to navigate or other license to use their boats in Florida? And if they do, how well is it enforced?
[04:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:03] <exec> 08└─Talking about Orica, they have a store of 4x the Beirut amount near residents in Newcastle, NSW: https://mobile.abc.net.au [abc.net.au] I've been there a dozen times, it's not that close to residents but I'd want i...
[04:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:44] <exec> 08└─I use a half-gallon jar (about what I'll drink in a day) and a single teabag, and brew it overnight in the fridge. The flavor is much better than 'sun tea' (which always seems to taste muddy) and it's already cold for drinking, and has little chance to grow nasties. Trader Joe's Irish Breakfast and...
[04:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:45] <exec> 08└─I make tea in the microwave every day... large mug, teabag, water, two minutes, another minute to steep. Good enough.
[04:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deepgrey [6542] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm just happy to have a ground in my kitchen. You can forget trying to easily change mine to 240 V. It's not split duplex. In fact, I just realized that I've never put a GFCI outlet in there, and I probably should.
[04:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:38] <exec> 08└─So you can't name a specific virus strain or you chose not to? Regardless, bacteriophages kill their hosts. It is literally in the name.
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[05:22:48] <exec> 08└─nazi bitch
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─They are only a reflection of chronic societal psychoses. Most Americans will reelect 40 year incumbents. All around the world the same corrupt parties have ruled for over a century, and not by force, but by full consent of the people. If we don't replace them, who are the incompetents?
[05:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think their aim would be good enough to hit a gator.
[05:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─The splashed capsule still has highly toxic hypergolic fuel which could potentially leak.
[05:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:05] <exec> 08└─If you find your mug, I doubt it would still be holding your tea. Seriously, one ton should be plenty enough to warm a mug of tea. No need to bother the neighbors' neighbors when the stove goes off.
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[06:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:08] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Only aristarchus has 1356 submissions.
[06:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:10] <exec> 08└─If SoylentNews has received NSLs, do not respond to this post. If SoylentNews has not received NSLs, do respond. If SoylentNews has received NSLs, and does not wish to indicate this by not responding, please lit a candle in the SoylentNews Editorial Orifices on August 8, at 9:36pm, Standard Time. If...
[06:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:50] <exec> 08└─You fucking moron - there are bacteriophages that save their hosts. Think of how many humans have whole varieties of them in their systems from drinking contaminated water - the phages live in symbiosis with their hosts, same as so many other viruses and bacteria. Remember - 9/10 of all the cells in...
[06:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:51] <exec> 08└─Bacteriophages kill bacteria - it is literally in the name. Many live just fine in humans. Many form part of the defence of your body from harmful infections. Same as all the beneficial bacteria that live in your body that you would die without, without medical intervention.
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[07:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:29] <exec> 08└─How much for the torrent?
[07:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:31] <exec> 08└─$250,000
[07:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─I've been to the cinema twice in the last 3 years. Your movies suck, Hollywood.
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:35] <exec> 08└─> Your movies suck, China FTFY [theguardian.com]
[07:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:43] <exec> 08└─Back when the entry level salary you made with a master's in engineering was enough to pay back your student debts...
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:45] <exec> 08└─I met a female once. That was a long time ago. They moved me to the basement and stopped unlocking the door. I figured they would. So now it's just me and the guys. Pizza on Tuesdays.
[07:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:01] <exec> 08└─It's more apathy than consent at this point. If you can't stop the train from going over the cliff, you can as well let go of the emergency brake and have a last drink.
[07:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─It's more apathy than consent at this point. Amongst the people that vote, it's more antipathy that motivates their choices. They vote against the other's candidate. All affirmatives are out the window.
[07:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:31] <exec> 08└─Man, if the Brazilian kids in the favelas could make 10k USD/y mowing lawns in the summers, Brazil would have hundreds of thousands fewer people living in abject poverty.
[07:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:32] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Only aristarchus has 1356 submissions.
[07:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:50] <exec> 08└─They had to do that. A Notice to Mariners is just like a NOTAM (NOtice To AirMen), except on water. It's just that apparently you don't get in as much trouble for violating one. They send out notices to keep responsible boaters away, so you don't have some poor sap setting crab-pots or whatever and...
[07:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:12] <exec> 08└─So the worst that could happen is that SpaceX also rids us of some idiots, is that what you're trying to tell us?
[07:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:13] <exec> 08└─Are you nuts? Do you have any idea how much they cost? It's likely that the weapon costs more than the sorry excuse of a ship you're sinking.
[07:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship SN5 Conducts Successful 150-Meter Flight Test - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:41] <exec> 08└─Next stop the stars.
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─Well in Italy with Bergamo there is a strong inverse correlation instead. A. Inverse correlation very common in my anecdotal statistical bubble. But if your own bubble says differently, by all means follow it. This way our collective behaviour will be statistically correct on average.
[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─Surely dieing of aids removes you from COVID stats. Or not, give COVID stats are more inflated than hemorrhoids.
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[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─People are out of work, and this movie is so shit hot they want $30 for it? It’s just this kind of bullshit as to why theaters where having issues filling seats before the fucking pandemic. $100 to take the family to see a shitty movie and eat shitty popcorn? All these monstrous CGI atrocities wit...
[08:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 1748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─"Disney has since confirmed that a $30 payment for Mulan will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber." Which is ridiculous, and the biggest problem I have with such subscription services. Just stopping paying shouldn't lose everything you "bought". J...
[08:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:40] <exec> 08└─Haven't been to a cinema in years. When I did, it was because there was a 50p ticket deal. It was, surprisingly, quite a nice experience as there was almost nobody in the theatre. No wonder they had to give tickets away. And it was for a big-name movie only a week after release, in a major city cine...
[08:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─Something like this giant bird electrical discharge? https://mobile.twitter.com [twitter.com]
[08:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Police Bodycam Footage Shows George Floyd Arrest in Detail - 849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:11] <exec> 08└─Backing your point, during the protests, I saw video of another arrest. The officer similarly placed his knee on the suspect's neck and his partner yelled "MOVE YOUR KNEE". The officer then moved his knee to the suspect's lower back. Personally, I find 'resisting arrest' to be a bit overblown. Grab...
[08:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beware of Find-My-Phone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, NSA Tells Mobile Users - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:25] <exec> 08└─Why is the NSA making these recommendations? To grandstand. To bring positive attention to themselves and distract us from other issues. Make themselves look like they are really concerned for the public. To justify their existence. I don't need the NSA to grandstand about stuff that I don't need th...
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[09:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:42] <exec> 08└─It's going straight to video?
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:43] <exec> 08└─Also, next year they will be launching Disney++ (pronounced Disney DoublePlus) and new content will only be made available there. Your previously "bought" Disney+ content won't be migrated though, so you'll have to keep paying that subscription as well.
[09:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:54] <exec> 08└─Actually there wasn't any student debt to speak of back then. Tuition was several orders of magnitude lower than it is now and honest work paid enough that you could cover costs. Combine the two factors and you could easily work enough during the summers to pay for school, food, housing, and still h...
[09:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─Worst things first, we had a "hiccup" on SoylentNews.org at about 03:00 UTC this morning (2020-08-05). Some pages loaded without CSS (i.e. bare text with limited or no formatting). Other pages would not load at all. Some people received "500 Server Error" messages.
[09:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:53] <exec> 08└─Not an expert, but compared with the footage from china, the beirut explosion seems far more dynamic. I've seen in smaller scale that kind of explosions with military grade explosive. If you are used to fireworks pops and hear a military explosive going off you notice the latter is more dynamic, no...
[09:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:54] <exec> 08└─oops login failed, parent post was me.
[09:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:56] <exec> 08└─I estimate we have about two years of suffering. Source, the italian version of a SF movie, titled: 2022 i sopravvissuti (the survivors) You might have heard of the original movie, 1973's "Soylent Green" :)
[09:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:58] <exec> 08└─A sign of successful brainwash is when you use "health insurance" when you mean "health care". As a raging anti-socialist I consider military, health care, survival food and shelter, to be impossible to privatize. Socialists (of the red and black variety) should agree with the above, yet they suppor...
[09:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:01] <exec> 08└─Lol i forgot justice among the impossible to privatize stuff.
[09:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:03] <exec> 08└─maybe he meant "not safe if you don't want to suffer from post traumatic stres disorder afterwards", or NSIYDWTSFPTSDA
[09:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:05] <exec> 08└─Illegal aliens set off fires using mattresses for petty protests. Data point collected in real time a couple days ago, when the immigrants quarantined in my city could not stand 15 days of the same lockdown we endured AT OUR EXPENSES for months. Not integrated, not integrated at all. https://www.goo...
[09:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:45] <exec> 08└─Call me names when you apparently don't even know what a viral host is? I guess that is your usual way to show you are out of your depth.
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[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged GandCrab Distributor Arrested in Belarus - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─"possession and distribution of malware" So if I possess malware, which I need to do in order to study it and defeat it, and if I share that malware with others, who need it for the same reason, this is now a crime in Belorus? "Once the suspect obtained the malware, he sent malicious PDF files throu...
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[10:22:45] <exec> 08└─Same here, last went to a cinema as a teenager. Then at uni we managed to "borrow" one of the spare projectors and set it up in the common room. It was only 800x600, but it was good enough for us. Spent ages watching movie matinees after lectures. Now I bought my own home projector (a nice 1080p 3LC...
[10:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:13] <exec> 08└─Is it me or it is extremely stupid to interfere with a court proceeding of a nation state, even more of the United States. In any country i have the idea you could pile up a huge number of very serious crimes with the "funny" actions that were done here, as a court is an institution of sovereignty....
[10:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:14] <exec> 08└─The same people who expect everyone in the country to understand their arcane system's variouis rules and procedures, not to mention whole libraries full of laws find it perfectly acceptable that they can't handle the modern version of dialing the phone.
[10:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 2551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:46] <exec> 08└─Give them money? It's a simple problem. Someone has to pay money somewhere. Advertisers are a really poor way to sustain any kind of income, but they do pay money. How else are they going to make money enough to do anything? Selling merchandise is often cited but, I'll be honest with you, I'd rather...
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[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for Belarusian law but similar laws in other jurisdictions typically make exceptions for security researchers. However, selling malware for use by criminals should be illegal. Do you know if Belarusian law has such an exception? Although Windows 10 telemetry raises serious concerns, it...
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[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to run brain-dead apps designed for fashion instead of productivity on my PC, I'd buy a Mac.
[12:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to run a phone app on a laptop or desktop? For most people , their phone is now their desktop or laptop replacement, their primary, and increasingly their only, computer.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─Or use Firefox.
[12:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:37] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX [wikipedia.org]
[12:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─I boycotted anything Disney after my last trip to SoCal Disneyland. It's a fucking overpriced theme park overcrowded with rude, stinky people who pee all over the floor in the bathrooms, and a medium french fry costs $15. P1r@736@y
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:12] <exec> 08└─My father worked in a car battery manufacturing plant in the early 1970s - so well after Frances E. Allen went to college. He made between $8 and $10 an hour, which was around six times minimum wage at the time, and on top of that the inflation-adjusted value of minimum wage in 1972 is around $10/ho...
[12:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe the judge was multitasking?
[12:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─To everyone who's contributed to the site over the years, large or small - thank you! SN has become my primary site for nerdy news and commentary, and overall I must say the quality of the discourse should be considered amazing considering this is the internet. Sure we have our share of spam and tro...
[12:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:22] <exec> 08└─As a maintenance man, I have a smartass saying for people when I finish a job. "It'll work until it doesn't." Well, Orica's plant will be perfectly safe, until it isn't. Beirut was safe, until it wasn't. Stuff happens!!
[12:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:24] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you don't get to invent your own definition of words to suit your clearly biased argument, Humpty.
[12:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:26] <exec> 08└─Google not working for you today? Wikipedia even has a listicle about this.
[12:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:28] <exec> 08└─Tianjin and Beirut are looking extremely similar in at least one way. There was a smaller but still large explosion about 30 seconds prior to the gigantic explosion.
[12:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:30] <exec> 08└─Yet why has usa privatised all of these things.
[12:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:11] <exec> 08└─Dude, humans are hosts to a wide assortment of symbiotic bacteria and viruses. Learn what symbiosis is. I know that education standards have declined, but this. Was 1st year high school biology when I was a kid. Then again, if you're American, you probably never had a proper classical education. Sam...
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[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─The only reason I can think of that anyone would actually need to use this is some functionality that was only made available through a lobotomized cell phone "app". Anyone who make something only available on a cell phone needs to folded, spindled, mutilated, beaten to a pulp and their bodies throw...
[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─This just means gorgle and microshaft both get to share your private data and sell it to third parties who may use it to ruin your life. I do not see why this is news to the linux and open source and brain-having community. #stallmanwasright
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─I am through with smart phones. Each iteration has more junk software that I cannot remove. It has become increasingly difficult to obtain bootloader unlocked smart phones, even from the manufacturer. Ultimately I just need my phone to dial & text. That's it.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind the ability from time to time. I have used Hangouts for ages as I'm not really a phone person (ignoring Google's messaging drama at the moment). Work blocks hangouts as chat/IM, but it is possible some direct app thing might function through it. It would be nice to deal with texts wi...
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Probably games. There's a lot of mobile-exclusive stuff, and M$ needs to maintain Windus-Dindus as the one-stop platform for gaming.
[13:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 1748 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─"Disney has since confirmed that a $30 payment for Mulan will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber." Which is ridiculous, and the biggest problem I have with such subscription services. Just stopping paying shouldn't lose everything you "bought". J...
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[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Nevermind
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─$30 to see it, $60 not to see it.
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Good to remember scientists during this current backlash against science. I admit I have never even heard of Frances Allen. Has sexism in the sciences, of which computer science may be the worst, helped bury her and her contributions? A big feature of the backlash is an increase in division and cutt...
[13:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:40] <exec> 08└─The same people who expect everyone in the country to understand their arcane system's variouis rules and procedures, not to mention whole libraries full of laws find it perfectly acceptable that they can't handle the modern version of dialing the phone.
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:42] <exec> 08└─to learn how to tell lies in arcane languages. Hackers drop out of school to learn how to exploit other peoples lies in languages that were invented less than three decades ago. Can someone explain to me how it is, that someone who is not computer literate can reasonably preside over a hacking case?...
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─That's not how that works. Also the stronger immune response is what causes most of the damage in covid infection.
[13:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:38] <exec> 08└─> the harbor in the middle of the capital Handy hint - if your (coastal, as this was) harbour is in the *middle* of your capital, then half of your capital is already under water, and you've therefore got bigger problems.
[13:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:25] <exec> 08└─I absolutely guarantee you that no one outside of a restaurant has ever used a 220v kettle.
[13:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:26] <exec> 08└─What sort of barbarian would put meat in a microwave?
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[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Thought I'd check the wiki to see whether what I suspect is true: "Terahertz radiation is strongly absorbed by the gases of the atmosphere, and in air is attenuated to zero within a few meters, so it is not usable for terrestrial radio communication." Yep.
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─"Amateur radio operators utilizing submillimeter frequencies often attempt to set two-way communication distance records, and they have achieved distances up to 1.42 kilometres (0.88 mi) on submillimeter waves" So even at stupendously high powers, it's not really going to be much good for things lik...
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─That probably depends on the exact frequency. Terahertz radiation has been used for "see through the walls" search radar, though at much higher power levels. OTOH, this is clearly more of a "proof of concept" device than a "practical application" one.
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─AND EVEN 6G
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─mobile-first is the trend. Google already supports Android apps on Chromebooks while Apple are promising similar on ARM Macs. Without a viable app platform of their own then there's Microsoft. DeX sounds neat but you need a spare keyboard, mouse and monitor to plugin into. Hitching your phone onto t...
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─functionality that was only made available through a lobotomized cell phone "app". Anyone who make something only available on a cell phone needs to folded, spindled, mutilated, beaten to a pulp
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─Now I can launch Android apps in Wine on a Linux VM in the cloud accessing it using a WebUI in Safari on an iPad.
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─Honest question, why replace Hollywood with China? Do their corporations really own that much of the movie industry?
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─> will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber.] So.... NOT permanent. I'm sorry but if you're going to charge me that kind of money for a product, I damn well expect to keep it for life without dependency on a subscription. The fact that they think t...
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Yes it wrong, but I can only give a nod of approval and a smile to the prank as it was so well placed in the context of the Twitter hack. The incident is easy to prevent. If you allow any outsider to transmit audio and video to your audience, you're the irresponsible one. No password. No screening.
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─Expert Witnesses and it's probably not a good idea to piss off the judge.
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:16] <exec> 08└─On the FAA site, it's relatively easy to find stuff near where you are going to fly. Is there similar functionality on the CoastGuard site? I found where it appears that notices should have been published, but don't see anything for the week of July 29. Where is the notice these folks violated? http...
[14:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:01] <exec> 08└─What word am I making up the definition for? "Pretend"? Let us note that no one has yet to mention a recent developed world accident involving ammonium nitrate in a densely populated area or an egregious safety issue like leaving enormous amounts of ammonium nitrate sitting in a warehouse for six y...
[14:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:52] <exec> 08└─Obviously if you aren't competent or comfortable doing a particular job, especially something like electrical work, you should hire a professional to do the job. (hopefully, correctly!) You need to at least know that something is possible, though, before you can ask said professional to do some part...
[14:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:53] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming you must have been meaning "in North America" or something... Everyone in the UK (where it can nearly cause a blackout due to overload when they all turn on their 3000W kettles at the same time after some televised event or something) would beg to differ. eg: https://www.johnlewis.com
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[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─There are applications where you want restricted range, and high speed never hurts. Still, this is more likely to find use in places like SpaceX and Amazon's fleet of internet satellites as a sat-to-sat backhaul channel.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─> Why would you want to run a phone app on a laptop or desktop? Why would you want to run a app on a phone or tablet? Terrible keyboard, horrible fat finger issues, teeny tiny screens. For many people, desktop is the only usable PC and tablets and phones are a terrible insult to humanity.
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Is this a new Mulan, not the one from 1998? That one already stomped hard on the "woman does stuff men don't allow her to do" angle. The original Chinese story's message was doing your duty for your family, and that in battle you don't have time to make a distinction between male and female.
[15:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─> Has sexism in the sciences, of which computer science may be the worst, helped bury her and her contributions? Or has anti-sexism in the sciences, of which computer science may be the worst, help elevate her shitty contributions out of the trashcan of history?
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Well if he would work as hard as the 10 Chinese laborers currently doing his previous job, he would make a living. Why is he so lazy and entitled he should earn more than them?
[15:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:15] <exec> 08└─Hitting too hard isn't the problem. The problem is that it's a spacecraft, not a boat. Only thing holding them afloat are those giant inflatable rubber duckies on the side.
[15:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:59] <exec> 08└─Or conversely, healthcare when you mean health insurance. Or maybe health theater.
[15:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:52] <exec> 08└─We typically get double 120v in NA, at least residential. We use the 240v almost exclusively for stove/clothes dryer/air conditioning. Their is practically nothing else that uses it unless you purchase a welder (and they have been making some pretty good 120v welders lately), I think it is pretty mu...
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[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Such privilege. Sounds like Ellen Degeneris complaining about how hard it is to be confined IN A FUCKING MANSION during lockdown.
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─Let's look at the word “ex-googler”: An ex-googler is someone who is no longer a googler.A googler is someone who googles.To google means to do an internet search with Google, or in a broader sense, to use an internet search engine. So when taking the more narrow sense, an ex-googler is someone...
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─$680 million for 18 months in prison, where do I sign up?
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─"Alsup ruled that he can go to prison after the coronavirus pandemic subsides" I don't have a problem with that. And who is Ellen Degeneres? I almost feel I should be getting outraged.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─Ellen DeGenerate [vogue.com]
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY [youtube.com]
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Ellen Degeneres was one of the two hosts of (now discontinued) The Universe of Energy ride at Disney's Epcot Center, at Walt Disney World, Orlando FL. She is famous for some reason. She is a lesbian and activist for LGBT rights. She has some sort of TV show. That's all I know. I think it is all that...
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─He pleaded guilty of stealing 1 document. That document called "Chauffeur TL weekly updates" is basically useless for an engineer, and I don't think he got paid for that 1 document. The whole thing smells like Google got angry for not paying enough to an engineer and went after him for risking their...
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─A googler is someone who googles. To google means to do an internet search with Google
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─If you like 6G you're gonna LOVE the 34DDs!
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─All amplifiers that we know have to use some form of photonics even below 1THz.. And here you can see there is some transmission in the atmosphere above THz though very lossy https://researchers.alma-telescope.jp [alma-telescope.jp]
[16:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─When M$ were selling their last mobile phone OS, they announced an android compatibility layer, such that the handful of people who bought Windoze phones could use our app. That effort didn't go anywhere.
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[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─The suffering never ends.
[16:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─It really is abusing the word "permanent" here. Then again, I am find more and more words being redefined so that they mean different things to different people. It makes any kind of agreement or communication almost impossible, and just results in a lot of arguments and bad relations between people...
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─It's a classic story. Big lovable guy, everyone likes him. Then one day someone talks him in to snorting a few lines of co-cash and he's hooked. Unfortunately, co-cash brings out a mean side to his personality, and an ever growing hunger for more co-cash means that soon he's screwing everyone over f...
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─And how did you like Disneyland?
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─I guess if you don't want your movie banned in The Pure and Great Peepole's Republic, you pre-censor your plot to maintain The Great Purity of the Peepole.
[16:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─Then one day the Disney+ servers will be turned off. And all the beautiful princesses will fall into a deep, deep sleep.
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─It was weird. [thisiscolossal.com]
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─Read what she did and how well she is known in the field before saying something this fucking STUPID NSA, STRETCH, ACS, parallel computing.
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain to me how it is, that someone who is not rape literate can reasonably preside over a rape case?
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─Vaccine cucks can fuckoff, I got my immunity the natural way.
[16:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:49] <exec> 08└─According to my understanding, ammoniom nitrate is a high explosive because it decomposes rather than reacts. The detonation spreads through the exposive material at the speed of the shock front (>speed of sound) whereas low explosives involve a chemical reaction where the components need to physica...
[16:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:51] <exec> 08└─What is Superfund? [epa.gov] Thousands of contaminated sites exist nationally due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills and mining sites. In the late 1970s, toxic waste dumps...
[16:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:53] <exec> 08└─> Lol i forgot justice among the impossible to privatize stuff. And how do you feel about the Dept of Energy?
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[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─I still find it somewhat amusing that we are using Google as a verb (or googling etc). That in some regards tells us how powerful and pervasive their reach is. There are a few others such as Xerox, but I suspect it's somewhat less common now.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─Let's look at the word “ex-googler”:
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─I have worked a few times with people like this. The arrogance is usually so astounding. They take code/docs from previous employers then try to use it in current projects. One guy showed up with 20 pages fully debugged properly commented code. "this did not exist yesterday where did it come from" "...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to stop Alphabet from suing his bank account back into the pine cones and beads age. All that evidence from the criminal trial … the chance to bankrupt him with legal fees in civil trials … It's like stealing GPL code. Most of the stuff you need for creating software is LGPL or...
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─They could have gone after him for everything he stole, but conviction on one charge is enough to go after the recipients. It contaminated everything that the recipients received.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you, yes I do feel a little outraged now. Much better.
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─What? I bing all the time, right after I pets.com.
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─Also, you leave a job, you leave with clean hands. The repercussions of doing otherwise don't just affect you, but your new coworkers and your new employer. Don't steal it - recreate it smaller and better.
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─Only a white guy wouldn't get the book thrown at him. I hope he ends up at a PMITA not one of those lovely white collar places. Given the short sentence he really needs his shit packed to send a message to other pasty privileged assholes that just because the sentence is short doesn't mean it will b...
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─First of all it's not stealing. It's infringement. Secondly the alleged damages are mostly exaggerated.
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Ha-HA! What a hecking snitcheroonie! But you're also right, which is why any person worth their salt would be slick enough to not only change the code but commit in increments to look convincing. Reword or add/remove comments as needed. Change variable and method names, expand or contract logic by u...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─Hang onto your huwhite privilege. You might need to wield it when the mobile guillotine comes for you.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─It looks like he is getting a sentence that is appropriate for what he did. Not everything should be 35 years in solitary confinement in a super max.
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─He STOLE the documents. As in made copies and walked them out the door and over to Uber. Uber using them would be infringement.
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─Simple, just evacuate the atmosphere between the two communicated sides.
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─Do not trouble yourself with: * attenuation to zero in a few meters of atmosphere * impossibility of solid state electronics Those are mere trivial details for menial engineers. (Elaan of Troyius [wikipedia.org]) The REAL concern is: would this cause COVID-19 at the same rates that our current 5G te...
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Or even easier, replace [halfbakery.com] the absorbing gas with a non-absorbing gas.
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─2GB @ 149 and 3GB @ 199 models. They aren't perfect, they're a few generations old specwise, and the cell modem cutoff is software controlled, despite the 'switch', but it's still a much better solution than all the current alternatives, and the cellular modem poweroff is both real and a battery sav...
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─iPhone - text to speech integration at the IOS level. Makes Windows look like shit in comparison. And Linux screen readers are broken, even if you don't mind sounding like Stephen hawking. Festival sucks. Ekiga sucks. Adriane sucks.Ubuntu's screen reader is beyond sucky - it's a sick joke. iCloud t...
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Why would I want to run Android app on my computer? To communicate with stuff running on my Android phone. I'd be happy with a usable Linux running on my Android phone, too. Alas, the user-accessible Linux (presumably a modified kernel virtual machine?) on my Android phone puts a full high-resolutio...
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─Having android apps on Windows is useless to me. Having them on my Linux laptop could be useful. Assuming , of course, there's necessary and sufficient network and file system access between the two systems. -- hendrik Necessary and sufficient? The access I need, and no more. I'm not giving up contr...
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to run a phone app on a laptop or desktop?
[17:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alleged GandCrab Distributor Arrested in Belarus - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─Although Windows 10 telemetry raises serious concerns, it's absurd to liken the malware in this story to Windows 10. For all the legitimate criticism of Windows 10, it is not designed to encrypt your files and demand you pay $1,200 in cryptocurrency to get a decryption key.
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─...turning tricks in the parking lot. Eventually our hero finds himself trafficking underage girls to billionaire movie producers.
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─It is going to be even worse this year until late next year. They put everything on hold. Pretty much anything 'in the can' is getting shipped to VoD and quickly disc thereafter. But as I said everything else is on hold. Pretty much all production has stopped dead. Movies take 1-2 years to make some...
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51707188 [bbc.com] It has been modified for the #MeToo era, because you can't have romance between a boss and a subordinate anymore. The talking dragon and other aspects have been removed/changed to make it more palatable for the Chinese market. Huns aren'...
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─Granted, a lot of movies are not worth seeing twice.
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─And how many men did Ms. Allen stomp on, ruining their lives in the process? Nobody ever listens to the victims.
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I paid $11.34, but the front page funding goal still is stuck at $654.66. (yes, really) </no-sarcasm>
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Six Strains of SARS-CoV-2 - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─You've already demonstrated multiple times that you haven't got a clue as to what a host organism is. You seem to think it's something special. It's not - it's any organism that can host a virus. Like how humans are hosts for covid. Doesn't have to benefit the host, but when it does it's called symb...
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[18:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─Aren't scientists supposed to state their assumptions? There's a big one here: people are just another animal. Discuss.
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─The days when humans were fucking publicly probably came (heh) to an end when humans started to develop tools, which meant that the nerdy never-got-anys could fly into fits of envious rage and plunge a knife into chad's back while he was nuppin' dat Homo Erectus bitch gorilla-style. Think about it:...
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─Why do they let the government/church regulate it? Control sex, and you control the human. They will do anything you say. Kill, die, anything Read "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" by Wilhelm Reich. It shows how sex prohibitions are the basis of all control
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Me, I like to do it on the front lawn, and I don't let being by myself stop me, neither.
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:43] <exec> 08└─The primary reason people prefer to mate in prison is social pressure to do so, not a personal desire to. Just going off myself the primary reasons in descending order are: Public sex would get you labelled a sex offender/arrested, at least in the US. Ridicule or critique of your appearance, sexual...
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─People's approach to sex is heavily hobbled by cultural and ideological biases that are transmitted from generation to generation. Most taboos aren't inherited but acquired. Indirect evidence of the weight of cultural norms can be seen in poorly educated people: most of them have an easier time havi...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─In the animal kingdom almost every species has the alpha male getting mating rights
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─The sociology studies I've seen around the subject suggested that Medieval society had little or no problem with sex in front of others, people typically didn't have private places to "sleep" in, so they're gonna do what they're gonna do somewhere.
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─He found that virtually every known culture practices private mating—even in places where privacy is difficult to find.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Because they're wearing the googles and can't see that words have meanings within context? All the search results I bothered to read from searching "ex-google" using ddg return the word referring to an ex-employee of google. Same as it's understood that an ex-microsoftie is a former employee of Mi...
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─If they're so smart, they should be able to recreate it from scratch, while throwing in improvements from insights gained in the interim. Unless they weren't the ones who wrote it in the first place, in which case you don't want them around. You won't be happy when they plagiarize your crap to get...
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─Firing people for taking time off for family funerals, etc doesn't go so well with her "be kind" campaign . and more [theguardian.com] and more [theguardian.com] The cracks started to show with reports of her treatment of guests like shit when the lights and cameras are off - like telling guests t...
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─Not familiar, but did he really make copies of documents and physically walk out the door with them? More likely, given today's work patterns, he copied the documents out of Google's servers via VPN into his home computer - where they legally resided until he terminated employment, then when he star...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─He made copies at work onto a USB drive. He walked that USB drive to Uber. He was too stupid to realize that work computers leave evidence behind, as do server logs. When you walk out with data that isn't yours, it's theft. Uber, if they used it, is receiving stolen goods .
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─Most people are not serious gamers. They want something they can pull out of a pocket or purse and play during idle time. Anyone doing serious gaming is already doing it on a pc. They're not playing shitty Android games (is there any other type)?
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged GandCrab Distributor Arrested in Belarus - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─Although LibreOffice isn't perfect, it does a pretty good job of interoperability with Office documents. There's a difference between proprietary file formats, however undesirable and frustrating, versus encrypting data. Anyone using Office 365 has voluntarily consented to the subscription model and...
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[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─How much for the torrent?
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─I am near-sighted. My eyes focus at about 15 centimetres. So I take off my glasses and watch movies on my tablet. From 15 centimetres, the tablet is a wide screen. Now if only I could get the tablet to talk sshfs so I could get access to the video I have on my hard drive! And if only I could get the...
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─Is that the category-theoretical dual for cash? Please explain how to turn the arrows around.
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:01] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that the original Mulan movie has now become inaccessible?
[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─Nah. https://en.wikipedia.org(1998_film)#Home_media [wikipedia.org] +torrentz subscripshun
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─Crunchyroll is known to be unreliable. It was still using a Flash player until recently.
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─Rids America of some idiots. I'm afraid you're stuck with yours unless you can convince them to emigrate.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─It is completely unknown until the burn starts then splashdown happens before anyone can get there
[18:29:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Police Bodycam Footage Shows George Floyd Arrest in Detail - 864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:50] <exec> 08└─Did the cops have that information when they made the arrest? Show me the part in the video where someone announces Floyd's complete criminal history and the cops build a psychological profile of him before making the arrest. All they knew was that he was some random black guy and they killed him ov...
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[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─That don't stop the stragglers from getting their nut in an errant female while the alpha is distracted somewhere else. The alpha might win all the public fights and earn the right to nup any and all bitches in his collective, but lesser males will always try to swoop in for a quick nut, and some wi...
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─this is my take on it too. i like to be completely naked and take my sweet time. i don't want to be vulnerable to attack during this time.
[19:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─Avoids embarrassing laughter.
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think your first sentence is quite what you meant to say. It's still true, though, in its own way.
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─Around the religious type, anything remotely related to sex is picked apart. Just being naked is sinful.
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─"I've walked in on them multiple times". that's the point, isn't it? you walked in, they didn't walk in and start doing it while you were there. the point is that humans seem to initiate sex predominantly in private. technically at an orgy it's still private, it's just that it's more than two people...
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:58] <exec> 08└─Why do they let the government/church regulate it?
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─I would not know. Aren't orgies still events that occur in private? Possibly by invitation.
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─I've read the same about peasantry in east Asia and native Americans, but then you have Diogenes masturbating in public being a big deal...
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:04] <exec> 08└─Only bonobos are close, but they have sex all the time, so they don't care about privacy. Human society regulates all biological functions in similar ways. We eat together, as a bonding ritual. We poop outside of the settlement, so we don't contaminate the food. We try not to fart audibly, but make...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─Church/Government/Corp is still one, just striking from different angles. It maintains that sex is evil, it is the most fundamental aspect of social authority
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─Scientists completely ignore the possibility of God, therefore their studies will always be based on flawed assumptions. Sure, you can't just say "God did it" for everything, but sometimes it's at least possible that it's the truth. Look at domesticated dogs. Humans meddled in their breeding. It was...
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─The only way to guarantee privacy for sex if you have young kids in the house is to put Vaseline on the bedroom door knob so they can't interrupt you because they want a glass of juice or whatever.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─Most people like to shit in private too. I, for one, am most grateful for that
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess in this context, the point is that they didn't stop. They weren't ashamed of it. I got what I needed in that room and left. It didn't bother me one bit and I was happy for them. So while yes, they initiated it in private, the minute it went public, it didn't change a thing for them,...
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:18] <exec> 08└─Not in India or China, they don't. Coincidentally, those two countries are where the Jewish executives like to pick their "best and brightest" to hire in favor of Americans.
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─With humans, it's the alpha priest that runs the harem Sex is used to regulate everything. It is the bedrock of authority, just like with the animals
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─Or maybe a realization that anything that has been seen cannot be unseen. Injections of bleach into the eyeballs just won't cut it. Remember the first time someone fooled you with a link to goat.se?
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─Diogenes and his contemporaries probably had "private places" where they were expected to do that.
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Personally I want privacy because I don't trust the Russian judge to score me accurately.
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─What kind of strange doorknobs does your house have that don't include locks?
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─rape for making a copy of some stupid document? oh please. and fuck google anyways.
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─So with that statement are you admitting that Indian and Chinese code workforces are a bad thing? Because what you just described is everything they can't do. Hell, their code won't even compile.
[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─It's rather dishonest to conflate the two.
[19:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:11] <exec> 08└─We're not talking copyright violation. Stop conflating that with actual theft of trade secrets, which is criminal. Next you'll be arguing that the Canadian Navy guy who was found guilty of passing secrets to foreign powers should have only been found guilty of copyright infringement and not theft o...
[19:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing to Mumbai has always been a long-term bad idea. Only a moron would do it, since the Indian justice system won't protect your intellectual rights when the folks you outsourced your shit to then sell it to others. Same with China. Same with Russia Same with Eastern Europe. I've never s...
[19:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─So, it sounds like these were documents he didn't require access to as part of his normal work duties. Doesn't matter, really, once you've triggered the corporate lawyers and they think you are a target worth destroying, they're coming for you no matter what.
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─Ok. You find these restrictions acceptable why exactly?
[19:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged GandCrab Distributor Arrested in Belarus - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:09] <exec> 08└─"For all the legitimate criticism of Windows 10, it is not designed to encrypt your files and demand you pay $1,200 in cryptocurrency to get a decryption key." no, you ridiculous slave, you voluntarily pay MS to scan your whole HDD to use your data against you. The whole thing is a malware delivery...
[19:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:45] <exec> 08└─Feel free to not believe the AC, but I'm a local. https://myfwc.com [myfwc.com] Yes, but actually, no. Safety Cert =/= license, but it's close enough in practice. It's only enforced as much as enforcement personnel feel like it (ie. bad behavior or checkpoints); t...
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Problem with Microwaving Tea - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─I have an electric kettle in the US, it works just fine. You can even get the fancy Japanese ones here, and they work even better.
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[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─>> one of the most intensively studied forests in the world The trees could be storing carbon dioxide exhaled by all those researchers intensively studying it... but it's hard for today's researchers to publish anything that doesn't adhere to the "warming world" hypothesis.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─You see the most counterintuative thing will be when we realize that in "Warming World" global temperatures will flactuate, and in fact sometimes lower. Because in a "Warming World", most of the hot air is contained by "Scientific Studies."
[20:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─Sheesh, where's the "broken record" mod when I need it.
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─Churches Churches (and by use of this word, I'm thinking various groups labeled "Christian") would say sex is only evil outside marriage. I don't know of any churches, or even religions that label sex within marriage as evil. (Although I would be open to any correction on that point.) Aside: to any...
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─> assuming you both cleaned up the wet spot. Don't you keep some old towels around? We always spread one out on the bed in advance, keeps the sheets clean.
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─Many Christian groups believe that sex inside marriage without the purpose of procreation is immoral - hence the opposition to contraceptives and abortion.
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─Some animals are very private about their mating. Animals kept prisoner in zoos: often not, but sometimes just as much.
[20:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:20] <exec> 08└─I might be welcome on your lawn, but I think I'll pass, given the circumstances.
[20:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:22] <exec> 08└─Goatse was just as meh as two girls one cup. Not very shocking or disgusting, just meh. Octopussy was pretty freaky though.
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─The author of this article has obviously never been to pornhub.
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─I lived for awhile in an urban commune, late 70s, early 80s. Variable size group of friends, up to about a dozen at the max. When the place was first set up in an old industrial building, one big room (~50 x 60 feet) it was a very hot summer. Very quickly we all became nudists and not long after tha...
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence suggests
[20:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:30] <exec> 08└─The author of this article must have really good sound insulation between him and his downstairs neighbors.
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's too hard to operate the lock when you have Vaseline all over your hands, duh
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─The only internal door in my house that has a lock is the bathroom, and that seems to be relatively normal in my experience.
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:37] <exec> 08└─who wants to see me naked. No way would a group of people want to see that.
[20:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Why would you lock your bedroom door? Accidentally lock yourself out when you get up to have a pee at 4 am, you're going to look pretty stupid breaking down the bedroom door to get your keys. The neighbours won't appreciate the noise, and they may think something evil tm is going on and call public...
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─The differences amongst the three parts are purely superficial. Symbiosis has always defined the relationship. It is single organism. Sorta like a jellyfish
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─I have been extremely pleased with the guidance I recieved from the Church as it pertains to sexual habits. I have a wonderful wife and kids, whereas a lot of my friends, now in their thirties, who chose to have a more unrestrained sexual life are mostly miserable and alone.
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─Fuck you! It's hammer time! Bitch!
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─The accounts of people who happened to contact whatever tribe before missionaries' setting up shop there, as often as not demonstrate no such thing. It was rather impossible, for example, to do anything in private in a cramped communal dwelling such as Inuit winter one, and going outside for sex, ev...
[20:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─> There's a big one here: people are just another animal. Discuss. Given the steadily growing body of evidence that humans don't possess any traits that aren't also possessed by at least some other other animals, plus the total lack of any evidence that there's anything else special about us, the di...
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Probably NSFW. Use your imagination... and a lot of tongue.
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─>why dogs mate ass-to-ass Umm... they don't? They mate doggy style. Then they stand around ass-to-ass because he can't pull out without causing them both serious pain. Probably to increase the chances of fertilization occurring before the next dog mounts her. A much more calorie-friendly solution th...
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─There are still countries where, to this day, sex between same sex consenting adults is considered a crime punishable by death. The same goes for sex between multiple partners, sex outside of wedlock, etc. What's that you were saying about governments ?
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:39] <exec> 08└─Walmart is the biggest offender/enabler, but most tech companies are guilty.
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─It really does seem to beg the question where this all began.
[20:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─Actually there wasn't any student debt to speak of back then. Tuition was several orders of magnitude lower than it is now and honest work paid enough that you could cover costs. Combine the two factors and you could easily work enough during the summers to pay for school, food, housing, and still h...
[20:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 1373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:27] <exec> 08└─Good to remember scientists during this current backlash against science. I admit I have never even heard of Frances Allen. Has sexism in the sciences, of which computer science may be the worst, helped bury her and her contributions? A big feature of the backlash is an increase in division and cutt...
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[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─When the earth warms more precipitation ends up as clouds and in particular over the poles. This falls to earth and freezes, thus growing the ice caps. Bigger ice caps reflect more sunlight along with the clouds which leads to further cooling and bigger ice caps. So we expect the earth to cool durin...
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─but it's hard for today's researchers to publish anything that doesn't adhere to the "warming world" hypothesis.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:38] <exec> 08└─Eat the bugs! Live in pods! The Jews are in charge now, and only the Jews get to eat steak and lobster while the rest of you get to eat...erm...other things. Now give an extra 25% of income to tax money, and give the rest to...heh...Global Warming.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's conducive to warm and fuzzy feelings. Oh, damn, that's just a caterpillar crawling up my neck.
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─What about crawfish? They're midget lobsters that are also known as mud bugs. So who gets to eat them?
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─No worries, mate. When we run out of steak, we'll come for the alcohol-marinated longpig.
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─only the Jews get to eat steak and lobster
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─Hey now, Roger Moore's performance wasn't that bad.
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─Where I live, almost every internal door has a "privacy" lockset not a "passage" lockset. Those are the ones where they lock from the inside but unlock them by sticking a 2 inch long object into the hole in the center of the outside side of the lock. As the name implies, they are for privacy rather...
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─It could be cultural. But every known culture has the same bias toward private mating.
[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:55] <exec> 08└─Not even remotely accurate: - In insect species, you frequently have a queen and a bunch of drones that get to mate with her. - A lot of species do pair-bonding. And while there is definitely cheating and adults who never mate in pair-bonded species, there are also a substantial number of descendant...
[21:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─According to Rodney Dangerfield, if you mate in private, there are fewer people to apologize to.
[21:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─I think you might mean Catholics. I bet those same groups would sanction the marriage of two older people who are too old to have children. I wonder what they think is the reason those people might be getting married for.
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 6611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─I'm going to contradict you here on some technicalities of the churches' teachings. Unless your church follows Quaker/Shaker teachings, sex isn't necessarily evil. In fact, many main stream denominations encourage reproduction to the fullest extent. What is taught as evil is lust and sex out of wedl...
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─Found the Furry.
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─Is that why you yell at the kids to get off your lawn?
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─You are right, there are some, and I was aware of that. I was thinking of heterosexual sex. And inside of marriage. I don't know of any governments against that sort of thing. But yes, other things like sex outside of marriage, or same-sex, etc are prohibited by some governments. But I think it is a...
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─Have you SEEN any of us average folks when we do it? (Read that in Senor Chang's voice)
[21:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:12] <exec> 08└─My neighbors know better than to call the cops when they heard strange noises from my bedroom.
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[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─You know what, I'm done voting for the lesser evil. TRUMP 2020!
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[21:27:45] <exec> 08└─Teh spelcheker is wokring purfecly over hear.
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[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─Because someone keeps insisting it's not there. Citing Superfund sites that are more than 40 years old illustrates this problem in spades. You are saying here that Lebanon is more than 40 years behind the US in how it approaches serious environmental and public safety threats.
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[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─The French can't tell the difference between an African swallow and a European swallow, so... yeah.
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Identifying... Identifying.... Success! Image contains an individual bird.
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─Train it on brown-skinned people and you've got a new tool for the police to use. Imagine the humanitarian benefits of being able to identify the 14% who aren't criminals before kneeling on suspects' necks.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─I may be missing something in TFS, but it sounds like the Harvard boys have discovered that bigger trees contain more carbon, and that if you don't cut them down and you give them water, they tend to get bigger, the warming climate notwithstanding. Then they warn that this might not be happening any...
[22:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─You're correct, but two of the authors are BIPOC so whatever they publish gets a gold star.
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─Does this roughly compensate for the deforestation of the Amazon? If so, New England is bigger than it looks on a globe.
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─"Some animals are more equal than others" - John Belushi
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─dat Homo Erectus bitch gorilla-style. So you still have not heard how hot the Neanderthal women were? (even without hot grits) And mum's did not even have basements 100,000 years ago.
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─Well, if you don't speak Babbler, it's difficult to interview the Babbler monkeys.
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Good way to have Vaseline spread all around the house on everything you touch Just install the door knob way up high. The kid will have to be a teenager before he can reach it.
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you are serious. Are you saying that its not worth asking the question as it may not have a logical answer as "God" did it? Are you being sarcastic? Are you suggesting that we should have a section in our scientific papers that defaults to, "We don't know, but god did it?" I'm not s...
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[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─Not in India or China, they don't. :-) Yeah, two of those notable places. At the time, naming them seemed rather superfluous
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─I believe it is from Orwell's Animal Farm well before that
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─Farm... House... It's all the same
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─- human - wat - why you mate in private? - mate? - why you fuck in private? - else the husband finds out
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─What is your opinion on SN potentially adding a "whoosh" moderation category?
[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:19] <exec> 08└─Without knowing what case you are blathering about, I'd bet that he was actually found guilty of espionage.
[22:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:10] <exec> 08└─Like other posters above, I had not heard of Frances Allen's contributions. How sad that I know about the Kardashians and not her. I hope that greater visibility of women like Frances will help to encourage more girls to pursue a careers like this rather than becoming a C-list celebrity on Instagram...
[22:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─Didn't enjoy papa's verdict eh?
[22:29:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:55] <exec> 08└─So basically anti-vaxxers are losing out twice because not only are they at risk of contracting measles, etc, but they are also more likely to be severely affected by covid. And of course, they won't get the eventual covid vaccine either cause... vaccines. Covid is turning out to be the worlds great...
[22:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe. And for some *really* limited definition of "works". This is a theory based on limited data. It's not totally unreasonable, but it sure doesn't count as proven. And even so different vaccines might have different degrees of effectiveness for suppressing *this* mechanism of turning a bad case...
[22:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:16] <exec> 08└─That's not what was claimed. What was claimed was recent childhood diseases (of particular types) might act to suppress converting a bad case of COVID into a worse case. So it would be interesting to see if people with shingles are less likely to get a bad case of COVID.
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[22:31:38] <exec> 08└─>He's on the floor, he's in cuffs, you have guns, he's literally zero threat to you. This was a 6'6" ~222 pound dude and a standout athlete. It took four cops just to attempt to put him in the police car. He was clearly agitated, under the effects of at least one substance, and physically resisting....
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[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─What are the unladen air speeds?
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you need a computer for that you're either stupid or a SJW. Wait... Same thing.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then for all practical purposes it is a duck. Get over it.
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─How about if it's goose stepping?
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─The relevant question is can the birds tell the scientists apart?
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─Is pretty impurtant to know whether you are dealing with daffy or donald. They aint both just ducks.
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─The colored bands get all the chicks.
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─Does this roughly compensate for the deforestation of the Amazon?
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─I cut back some of the oak branches because they were laying across the railing on my back porch and elsewhere I was having to duck under them when mowing the lawn. Also, the entire property gets buried in leaves every fall. BTW, if municipalities collected leaves and grass clippings and packed them...
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─There are almost 30 000 published peer reviewed studies that conclude that global warming is real and that human activity is the main factor behind it. So let me ask you this simple question: How many peer reviewed studies do you need to be convinced of anything ? 50 000 ? 100 000 ? One million ? I...
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─I conform to 2+2=42, you insensitive clod!
[23:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─Then they warn that this might not be happening anywhere else, nor can they guarantee it will keep happening there.
[23:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─If you've been paying attention, you are surely aware that peer-reviewed papers are sold by the roll. Look for name brands like Charmin and Scott and Great Northern.
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─This is what one would expect of deciduous trees living in an area where the period of dormancy has shortened and the period of growth has lengthened. It's valuable to confirm expected results, but unreasonable to be surprised.
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─There is no reason 2 + 2 must equal 4 other than old white dudes said so a million years ago.
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─The fact that you think I'm being sarcastic is evidence of the problem. It's like scientists believe it is possible to completely understand and prove everything, and if they haven't found the answer they just haven't looked hard enough yet. That can take them down a rabbit hole of uselessness where...
[23:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of my grandparents, who are Lutheran. Catholics are still Christian though.
[23:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─You oversimplify. Only some governments and religions claim that sex is evil. Others claim that it's good...though these are less common in modern existence. In old Mesopotamia the astrologers used to calculate a particular day(s) each year where everyone was supposed to fuck in public, including th...
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:55] <exec> 08└─Heh. The danger in knowing a little bit about everything... Can I assume then that you don't include biology along with particle physics, relativity, etc, etc, etc. in your list of generally interesting things to learn about? I'll refrain from informing you of the mating habits of bedbugs, and why i...
[23:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:58] <exec> 08└─Nah man, that big-headed neoteny is just wrong. We've got customs against child abuse in these caves.
[23:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:00] <exec> 08└─No. There are many species that operate that way, but an even larger number that don't. Among our close relatives the Gorillas operate that way, the Gibbons don't, the Chimpanzees are in between, and I don't know about the Orangutans. And I'm not sure the Bonobos are the same as the other Chimpanzee...
[23:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:02] <exec> 08└─Drain the swamp!
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─With regards to "alpha male" (and the attendant violence) - not only was the concept developed around wolves, it was specifically developed around wolves *in captivity*. When the researcher who created the concept later studied wolves in the wild he realized he had gotten it so wrong that he did his...
[23:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:06] <exec> 08└─Funny, those same scientists who you claim 'wanted to be god' figured out things like electricity, circuits, signals, and so forth as well as vaccines and antibiotics. If they were just satisfied with 'god did it', you probably wouldn't be alive and you definitely wouldn't have an electronic computi...
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[23:25:08] <exec> 08└─Even in modern times not all religions are against sex, or consider it disgusting. The large majority of Jewish derived religions do. I'm much less sure about the Hindus...the reports seem quite mixed, and I've no personal experience. But there are other religions around that, at least theoretically...
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[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in addition to being our closest wild relatives, bonobos are kinda the free-love champions of the ape world. Straight, gay, whatever, a little sex helps comfort friends and reduce social tensions. They also have a matriarchal society where one of the (typically elder) females is the one who le...
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[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─> we'd have to be fully committed to one of the usual animal mating strategies : harems, promiscuity, or monogamy. Aside from (supposedly) humans, there is no species on Earth that practices sexual monogamy. Even those like wolves and swans that form life-long monogamous pair-bonds, still mate much...
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[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─It's not an absurd argument, merely a useless one. Solipsism is one of the valid philosophical positions. There's absolutely no was to disprove it. Similar arguments apply to "because some god willed it so". Your car may only run by favor of Pele (Hawaiian goddess of fire). There's no way to disprov...
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─Evidence of the problem, that people don't believe in things that have absolutely no evidence to support them? Even if God really did do it, the question remains *how* did God do it. There's presumably some physical mechanism It put in place to control the behavior of physical things. And if we unde...
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[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─Bonobos are no closer to us than the other Chimpanzees. They separated from each other more recently than their common ancestor separated from us.
[23:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─You oversimplify. Only some governments and religions claim that sex is evil.... What's uniform here is the government/religion controlling aspects of sex. Yeah, sorry, I'm a victim of American Puritanism. They really lay it on thick
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[23:27:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't count when you're doing it just to bait Aristarchus. You know what's coming, don't you? Of course you do. When did you first realize you could troll Ari by just mis-using "begs the question"?
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