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[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword.
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─Admins have looked into it and determined that their sock puppets are innocent of all charges.
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:15] <exec> 08└─Cher's kid, Chastity Boner?
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, great California people, please don't secede from the U.S.! We couldn't possibly get by without you! Please, please stay in the U.S. Especially don't take Oregon and Washington with you! Oh, no, how could we ever possibly survive without the west coast‽ And extra pretty please don't throw us i...
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─White girls like those big-dick Polacks though.
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─The guy has dementia, and the press is giving him a free pass.
[00:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:23] <exec> 08└─It's sad that an intensely senile old creep is much more appealing than the sitting President of the United States.
[00:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:25] <exec> 08└─I hear they did the same for Biden, but nobody noticed the difference.
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─There is a novel, Ecotopia [amazon.com]. Makes no mention of what happened to the Confederate States, however. Or was that A Boy and his Dog [imdb.com]?
[00:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:30] <exec> 08└─It's now Chaz. She had an addadicktome.
[00:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:32] <exec> 08└─What odd names for Joe's grandchildren! Then again, Bill and Hill named their daughter after an English Premier League team.
[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:07] <exec> 08└─I just had to moderate it funny... But all too many "leadership" positions of authority are filled with ignorant people. People who have great "people skills" but little technical skill. Combine this with the arrogance that comes with authority, and really bad stuff happens. People with authority ov...
[00:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks for caring enough about other people to go through the inconvenience, but there have been numerous examples of people measuring their blood oxygen levels and found that even strenuous exercise does not lower the blood oxygen levels.
[00:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:01] <exec> 08└─Anyone with a functioning brain is a covid-phobe. Did the Russians give you a neural-net-on-a-chip to help you shitpost online?
[00:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:03] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think it's a statistics thing. As in: everyone knows that statistically, smoking greatly increases your likelihood of getting lung cancer, but nearly everyone also knows a 60+ year old pack-a-day-since-they-were-thirteen smoker without a trace of lung cancer in them. Me, I've got mild...
[00:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:41] <exec> 08└─... adjusted for inflation.
[00:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:43] <exec> 08└─I just swipe on my phone to "unlock" it. I have all my personal information on it as well. All my email, voip, messenger, ftp, vnc, vpn accounts too. Nothing bad has happened in the last nine years of doing this, since my security comes from myself and the people I choose to associate with.
[00:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:47] <exec> 08└─They're not required to do that, they can. The problem is that since so few stores do it, it can be a challenge to explain to the customers that the price they're seeing is what they pay, no tax on top of that. The main places that I see that are places dealing with a lot of cash and not wanting to...
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[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─Must be extremely low budget. Hardly even an ascii-art meme to be seen, and SN posts can use a fixed-width font!
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:25] <exec> 08└─Aston Villa?
[01:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:28] <exec> 08└─From the blurb: Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first offici...
[01:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:30] <exec> 08└─Pro Trump posts stand out because it is hard to believe that after more than 3 years there are still adults who would consider themselves pro Trump. Maybe you have not been paying attention.
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─Trump didn't win a vacuum -- HRC was his D opposition and there's no doubt we dodged a bullet there in that she wanted to get us in a shooting war with Syria based on false pretenses and that would increase the risk of nuclear war with Russia. No matter how awful Trump is, I'll always have a bit of...
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─So this sounds like what Twitter already does natively but to promote the opposing views/candidate?
[01:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:10] <exec> 08└─You need to move to a country that cares about its people. There are plenty of Western Democracies that do.
[01:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:11] <exec> 08└─Where I live the taxis regulations have been pretty good for 20 years or so and Uber struggles to keep drivers because of the low pay. People still use Uber despite it not being cheaper or easier than getting a taxi.
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─Let me see... Moxie takes co2, add energy (solar? Nuclear?) to make o2 and co. WGSR takes H2O and the co to make h plus the co2 which moxie needs. End result, water plus energy makes oxygen and hydrogen. Anybody working on hydrolysis? Or does the moxie and WSGR use a more attainable energy flow? Lik...
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not a covid-phobe, and I've got an abacus, you insensitive clod. ...I probably should be, though, Weak lungs. Might be enough in the budget next year for an upgrade to a difference engine. Then we'll see!
[01:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a tax on stupid, it's a tax on ignorant. Big difference. It's a lack of education tax, exploiting the poorly educated and funneling that money back to the state.
[01:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly, its not like setting up a publicly accessible MongoDB is that hard, I mean you don't even have to try =)
[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─I meant primary and not arbitrator. It should definitely be the arbitrator too. But it is recommended practice to have the primary management node not be a data node as well. It helps with solving problems with quorum, split brain, and other issues, while also allowing centralized service management...
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[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─Though it would be easier just to start with raw materials.
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Yes to razor blades ! This was discussed earlier here: MIT Study Reveals Why Razor Blades Go Dull Cutting Humble Old Hair [soylentnews.org]
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but do you want a fat nanometer blade?
[02:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:34] <exec> 08└─or even take away those monies propping you up
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─Biden should challenge Trump to take the SATs or the GREs or maybe just ride a bike.
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─...you WOULDN'T vote for someone who could fire bottle rockets out his bunghole? Because that kind of reality-warping power sounds about right for what we need right now.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:39] <exec> 08└─And extra pretty please don't throw us into that briar patch!
[02:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:42] <exec> 08└─I know, look at all these comments, I can't believe people value things differently from me.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─No, but Huddersfield Clinton has a certain ring to it.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Total space newbie here. How difficult would it be to create a space elevator on Mars given the lower gravity and almost non-existent atmosphere? Just wondering if that would maybe be a better option for 2 way transport from/to its orbit...
[02:27:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─Seems like he had some kind of inside information, or figured out their ticket distribution formula or something. Beating the system is either cheating or some sort of massive sloppiness on the part of the lottery designers.
[02:30:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:32] <exec> 08└─The kind of person who will patiently wait at a door for 3, 12, or 36 hours, waiting for a suspect to exit the building
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't be the first time! Eds want deniable plausibility.
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[03:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─Finally - since 1991 Toshiba has been screwing up my life with their custom solutions to everything in their laptop systems. Oh, you expect COM1 to be at this address? Well, we don't really have a COM1, what we have is COM7, 8, and 9 at these addresses which we map back to COM1 through this propriet...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─We had one Toshiba laptop at my last company. I can't remember why we only had one, or what was wrong with it, but even though I eventually managed to pump it full of RAM (maybe 2 GBs?)* in an effort to get someone to take it off my hands, everytime I gave it to an user they complained about it and...
[03:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:34] <exec> 08└─:-) If you kept the receipt, you might get a refund
[03:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:36] <exec> 08└─WTF does that have to do with scumbags hijacking subreddits? Nothing. See subject line.
[03:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:38] <exec> 08└─Right like the press is not giving a free pass by just repeating ad-nauseum whatever he says right ? The worst response in the world to the pandemic except may be Brazil ...nobody can point that out... (common Vietnam is doing a bang up job on social medicine and controlling flare ups than the US......
[03:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─I thought the same thing about Obama in 2012. People will peep.
[03:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─I could be fun to watch, especially when compared to the horror show we are forced to endure.
[03:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─"At some point the shareholders are going to figure out that no-one is quite stupid enough to buy their worthless shares and Uber will close down." You assume the market is rational. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
[03:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:21] <exec> 08└─The same thing can be said about Tesla and many other companies. Tesla was unprofitable for many years before they eventually turned a profit. There are many publicly traded companies that have relatively consistent negative earnings.
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:23] <exec> 08└─"These "losses" are only on the books to evade taxes" Evade or avoid? If you mean evade are you suggesting that these companies should be prosecuted for tax evasion? If you mean avoid are you suggesting that the tax laws should be adjusted accordingly?
[03:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ULA and SpaceX Awarded NSSL Phase 2 Contracts - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:31] <exec> 08└─Presently, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is only on this contract because it's the only other launch competitor to SpaceX (USAF won't launch on foreign owned launchers). I wonder what will happen to it in a decade or two when there are other US competitors to choose from? Either they'll shape up...
[03:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:23] <exec> 08└─Doesn't explain why polio persists in some of the dirtier countries; still endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. Scroll down to the map: https://ourworldindata.org [ourworldindata.org]
[03:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:25] <exec> 08└─but there have been numerous examples of people measuring their blood oxygen levels and found that even strenuous exercise does not lower the blood oxygen levels.
[03:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:05] <exec> 08└─It is probably a qcom chip in there.
[03:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:27] <exec> 08└─That's false hope, not real hope. The chance of victory is so infinitesimal that they'd be better off spending that money elsewhere, probably on a Snickers. At least then they'd be guaranteed to get something out of it. False hope is inherently dangerous. It's better to be hopeless than deluded. At...
[03:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:12] <exec> 08└─AU lotteries return 55% as tax-free prizes. The rest is supposedly spent on hospitals, but really it is just revenue. The main difference is lottery (and other gambling) wins are NOT subject to income tax. The rationale was that if wins were taxable income then the cost of the tickets (or other bets...
[03:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:13] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of this: === A man bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. Come morning, the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, but I've got some bad news. The donkey died." "Well then, just give me my money back." "Can't do that. I spent it alr...
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[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─I think the only Toshiba laptop I've ever dealt with was a friend's wife's Satellite. I mostly remember that the cheesy plastic hinges had broken. It ran Vista, and I don't remember what other problems she had. > ...Toshiba also leaked silent submarine propeller tech to the Russians... I remember th...
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:49] <exec> 08└─Those custom implementation were generally supporting "special features" that mainstream laptops didn't have. Doctors loved the Toshiba laptops because they ticked off some boxes on a feature list that others didn't - nevermind that those extra features were useless... they had them, so they must ha...
[04:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─You mean an American nanometer?
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─Ain't no such thing. We import them when we need them.
[04:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:08] <exec> 08└─The guy has dementia, and the press is giving him a free pass.
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─:-) There's definitely no accounting for taste there!
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[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─I keep wondering how long it's going to be until venture capitalists stop throwing money at businesses that can't turn a profit and lack a business model.
[04:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:57] <exec> 08└─The reason why the fuels we use are convenient and useful is because of their energy density. To convert a whole lot of carbon dioxide to oxygen and carbon monoxide may require a whole lot of energy so you might have to start out with an energy dense source to begin with ... which it would probably...
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[04:25:59] <exec> 08└─Total space newbie here. How difficult would it be to create a space elevator on Mars given the lower gravity and almost non-existent atmosphere? Just wondering if that would maybe be a better option for 2 way transport from/to its orbit...
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[04:26:01] <exec> 08└─It's actually electrolysis that MOXIE is going to do (for about an hour) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[04:26:03] <exec> 08└─Tents are too fragile, though by domes I wasn't talking about any particular architecture, but just about an enclosed pressurized environment a lot smaller than "outdoors". A buried tube would count. Redundancy is important, of course, but so is durability of each as an individual item...you're goin...
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[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─Not yet it isn't. We need to develop a lot of technologies a bit more, especially radiation hardening, gravity control (i.e. centrifugal force in a moving craft), and closed ecology. Until those are more developed Mars has an edge.
[04:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─There was a popular theory at the time that appointing Quayle as VP was a way to prevent assassinating the P. Nobody wanted Quayle to take over.
[04:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:55] <exec> 08└─I disagree. What you say would be true if people were actually taught probability well in our educational system. But lots of middle class and richer folks wouldn’t be able to do a probabilistic analysis of why one shouldn’t play the lottery, yet they know it’s not a reasonable thing to do via...
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[04:28:56] <exec> 08└─Canada does the same, just that we understand that something sold for a dollar is usually going to cost $1.12 (varies by Province). Perhaps it says something about Americans that if they can spend their whole life paying sales tax, that they're still surprised by it.
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[04:28:58] <exec> 08└─Scratch and wins, I'm fairly sure that if they advertise a top prize, perhaps $100,000 (common here), they have to have a ticket that has the winning numbers on it, along with perhaps 1 or 2 tickets for $50,000, 10 tickets for 10,000 right down to a bunch of $2 winners. There's laws and regulations...
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[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:38] <exec> 08└─The other option being sold in to sex slavery and taught to give blowjobs until you age out at 22.
[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Mandarin Wu Yue Xiang Min Gan Hakka
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─Occasionally they also blow. Have nothing to do with them, unless you're being compensated upfront.
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─English is a wonderful language; very good for technical and scientific issues, but not expressive enough for other matters. You can make rocketman out of “rocket” and “man” and the meaning is understood; but other languages are more expressive of feelings (German, schadenfreude and other w...
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[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─You should have just stopped with Mandarin. There's no other language on that list that gets within an order of magnitude. Nor do any of the rest make the top ten [wikipedia.org] list (though Wu and Yue Chinese gets close).
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[05:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying that East Asia languages might dominate communications in the new empire.
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[05:22:59] <exec> 08└─At the beginning of the pandemic my wife and i decided to set up a media room so we could play some video games together. BestBuy had a deal on Toshiba 50" LCDs so we bought two of them. You have to have a remote to do anything. The toshiba has a single button that doesnt actually do anything. Cant...
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[05:23:00] <exec> 08└─Around 1997 or so when I was back in college my mother gave me as a gift a Toshiba Libretto. It was a damn small laptop but packed a lot of punch for the time nevertheless. It was about the size of a VHS cassette and weighed about as much but had an 800×600 screen, a Pentium processor, and 64 megs...
[05:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:22] <exec> 08└─I would vote for an inanimate carbon rod before Donald Trump. I would vote for a warm bowl of yogurt before Donald Trump. I would vote for a glass of Hillary's diarrhea before Donald Trump. I would vote for literally *anything* before Donald Trump.
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[05:24:24] <exec> 08└─The candidates for Biden's VP are even more frightening. Folks like Condoleezza Rice and other right wing war criminals are on his short list.
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[05:24:26] <exec> 08└─It's a black female list. There's only so many cutthroat black female politicians to choose from. Kamala Harris, anyone?
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[05:24:28] <exec> 08└─President Donald Trump Jr. it is then.
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[05:25:17] <exec> 08└─NSSL and SLS can keep it alive for a while. It needn't spend any money on R&D to jump past Vulcan. Bleu Origin can come in and fill the roll of the alternate launch provider. Too bad they couldn't do it in this case, although I wouldn't rule out a lawsuit against the Air Force from Bezos to try and...
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[05:26:22] <exec> 08└─The gravity control or rather producing fake gravity with centrifugal force is relatively simple. Could just attach 2 capsules together with a tether and spin it, or better attach to a central object like a propulsion stage. The closed ecology is likely the hardest, though once on Mars, it doesn't h...
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[05:26:24] <exec> 08└─Might have solar cells in a leaf like pattern.
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[05:26:43] <exec> 08└─Caught by a fucking tree! And preserved for 6.7 billion years or whatever to be laughed at on the internet by another species. The humiliation.
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[05:27:25] <exec> 08└─I have something dirty for them to play with - let me bring it outside...
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[05:29:17] <exec> 08└─Or we're only hearing about this story because he ended up with a winning ticket. I suspect there are numerous stories of people with cockamamy plans to win the lottery that end up losing their 'investment'. At some point one of those people wins and they take it as a validation that their 'plan' wa...
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[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─That's nice, but like everything else in life, we chose the winner or loser based on things other than what is the most elegant or the most logical. It's just how it is.
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[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─Mandarin time
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─As a German, I can say that "gloating" comes rather close to "Schadenfreude". For "verschlimmbessern", there is the Chinese phrase of "drawing legs on a snake", which is pretty expressive in English too.
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─Having lived in China, English definitely isn't a lingua franca there by any means. AFAIK, that holds true for Japan also.
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[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Based on a sample of 17 languages, it looks like human languages have optimized at a bit rate of around 39.15 bits per second [sciencemag.org]. Those with more complex syllables are used more slowly. Also, what those bits are used for is a different matter and much depends on what the language is us...
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─but I reckon it's high time the entire world's population spoke one single standard language by default. The hodgepodge of languages that has been our Babel tower for millenia only brought us misunderstanding, hatred and war. I'm not saying English should be the universal language - although, in man...
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─I would comment, in my native language, but there is no word in Ancient Greek for "English", or even "Anglishe sprache", since those barbarians, beyond the pillars of Hercules, were unknown to us. And why anyone should adopt the speech of people who paint their naked bodies with blue mud, well, barb...
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[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─Rosetta Stone is currently offering a $200 lifetime subscription [rosettastone.com] to their 24 languages on the web and via their app. Dunno if it's a good way to learn, but considering how long they've been around, it's not *that* much for something you may want to try out later or over time.
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─This is what an international society looks like. What is the largest English-speaking nation in the world? It's China, because so many people there have learned English as a second language (ESL). ESL is indeed a ticket to a lot of opportunities. But I'm not clear on what TFA is fussing about. Oppo...
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[06:23:07] <exec> 08└─My very first x86 computer was a Toshiba Satellite Pro 405cs with a Pentium 1@75Mhz, 40MB of RAM, and a 750MB hard disk. I got it at a Savers thrift store for $15 when I was 12, and it came with Windows 95, though it clearly shipped with Windows 3.1. This was around 2006-2007, so it was already hope...
[06:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:20] <exec> 08└─See? This is how you ended with all the manufacturing outsourced. (grin)
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[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─Or just take a straight walk down a long ramp.
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[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─*role Last time I checked (on Wikipedia) both ULA (Lockheed Martin + Boeing) and Boeing were listed as SLS contractors, but I think Boeing and Lockheed are being listed separately [gao.gov] on official documents. Air Force to end agreements with Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman, prepares for launch...
[06:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ULA and SpaceX Awarded NSSL Phase 2 Contracts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:23] <exec> 08└─Any interesting civilian endeavor quickly becomes militarized...
[06:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nostyle [11497] 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:15] <exec> 08└─Having lived in Hawaii, I can assure you that there is periodic stress to the respiratory system from clouds of volcanic gases and seasonal burning of sugar cane fields (a declining industry now).
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[06:27:40] <exec> 08└─The magnetic fields of magnetars are in the gigatesla range. Yes, 108 to 1011 T. In contrast we can barely manage a pulsed field in the kilotesla range on earth, and the strongest steady magnetic fields we can make are only around 100 T. At a distance of about half that from earth to the moon, a mag...
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[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─Let's go back to the days when academic literature came in many, many different languages! I for one can't wait to have to pay translators for every 2nd paper that crosses my desk! English is the new Latin, and for good reason.
[07:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:51] <exec> 08└─ESL does not compete with education in the local language; it is an additional skill that students learn.
[07:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:53] <exec> 08└─English is the new Latin, and for good reason.
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[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─There's first language and there's native tongue. All the countries in the world can decide to swap to English (or whatever language of choice) as their official first language, it still doesn't remove some of the issues around language and opportunity (lack of) as people who still have their native...
[07:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:58] <exec> 08└─English is the new Latin, and for good reason.
[07:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:00] <exec> 08└─If for some reason you can't make it to the schools for the one percent (who don't like competition and DO open up to particularly bright externals because it's better to have them on your side), don't cry. You will be enriched by your local schools to become good butlers. The premise of the article...
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[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─One of the, if not the, most rich phonetic scripts. Using latin alphabet to write down, say, Southeast Asian word/phrase is pushing square block into a round hole. For that matter, it's pretty inadequate even for slavic languages.
[07:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─All languages have their own demons. Would you prefer German to be the global language with its weird article mess, where "the girl puts the milk on the table" is essentially "it puts her on him"? Or is French more your thing where the spoken language barely has anything to do with the written words...
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:18] <exec> 08└─The libretto was a rather nice piece of kit. I bought two when they were dumping them (the earliest version) for around $500 around '97. It had no fan, so the only sound it made was the nearly inaudible whir and click of the hard drive. IIRC it came with W95, so I set up one to dual boot with Slackw...
[07:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:39] <exec> 08└─...and you seem to have missed the amusing non-sequitur nature of the quip and the feeble attempt to reference something that actually might qualify as "a Single Devastating Disease" which we seem to be avoiding rather poorly. Perhaps some of us are not "evolved" enough.
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[07:27:41] <exec> 08└─Most likely that has little to do with cleanliness, and more to do with getting vaccines distributed to remote war-torn areas where people distrust the health workers who are distributing the vaccines--sometimes for very good reasons due to past unethical testing.
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[07:29:34] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it is puffery either. First, the shop's job isn't to educate me about taxes, it is to sell me stuff. Second, it is far from a secret that there's VAT, unless you are living under a rock, you know it anyway. And third, in the end it doesn't matter whether the tax is directly taken fro...
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[08:23:00] <exec> 08└─who paint their naked bodies with blue mud
[08:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─And why anyone should adopt the speech of people who paint their naked bodies with blue mud, well, barbarians.
[08:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't want everything taught in Latin, but it's well worth learning. It was available at my high school in the 80s, and it's probably still available at prep schools. The Catholic Church allowed Mass in something other than Latin in what, the 1960s with Vatican II? Among Catholics I've known, I...
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[08:23:06] <exec> 08└─Fun fact, Latin has that too. The article was originally based on which deity's domain the "thing" in question fell under. English is thankfully free of such nonsense.
[08:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:08] <exec> 08└─Eh, everyone here is required to learn either Latin or French as a third language in school, yet I don't think I've ever met anyone who found it easier to learn than English. Additionally, you'd run into considerable trouble trying to express modern concepts in a dead language unless you first creat...
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─When $LANGUAGE Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - Did you ever have to make up your mind? And pick up on one and leave the other behind? It's not often easy and not often kind. Did you ever have to make up your mind? Did you ever have to finally...
[08:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:12] <exec> 08└─Once again c0lo proves his post Warsaw Pact worth. Kudos, sir! (And he can't even speak english, or, at least, only better than Runaway can. )
[08:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:27] <exec> 08└─Your sig made me chuckle.
[08:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:53] <exec> 08└─My what a victim complex you have there.
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[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─It's obvious ... what you doing up so late?
[09:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─It's obvious you, too, don't have a clue what this post is about. Posting just for the sake of posting? It's been a couple hours so let's just post something?
[09:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:13] <exec> 08└─I am agree. English pretty good.
[09:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─μπλε λάσπη? Modern, I know, but we did have similar back in the day, just less actual experience with naked blue men running at us in battle. Seemed a bit, perverted? Coming from a Greek background. We were all OK with the fighting naked thing, climate permitting. But painting yourself blu...
[09:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:17] <exec> 08└─what a bastard race of white supremacists you have spawned!
[09:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:19] <exec> 08└─That's minor quibbling, a native German may cringe if you mix them, but won't get confused. And I think is well preferable to English, where the youngsters still engage in spelling bees close to the age of sexual maturity [bustle.com] (up to the age of 15). Fer God's sake, isn't anything better to d...
[09:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:21] <exec> 08└─Esperanto was designed to be a language for exactly that purpose. Yet, my vote goes to Lojban - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] - as the language that in an ideal world, would be the language that all need to learn. A synthetic engineered language, it has been thought and design...
[09:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:23] <exec> 08└─The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows. Trump will put an end to that.
[09:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:39] <exec> 08└─"Enlightenment cannot be attained until the fourth eye is wide open" -Goa Tse
[09:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Apple products.
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[10:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:36] <exec> 08└─Didn't we have that before? [wikipedia.org]
[10:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─Thank God for that!
[10:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe people will start speaking "American" instead.
[10:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:30] <exec> 08└─For that all you would have had to do is evolve the written language along with the changes in the spoken one. When you look back in the history of the English language, you'll notice that it was once actually closer to what is written. German has simply done that.
[10:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:33] <exec> 08└─International community deserves a better language than English. Ridiculous spelling rules exist just to create more pitfalls for the unwary, which only creates more inequality. Things like https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] make it needlessly hard to read for people wit...
[10:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:35] <exec> 08└─More rightist bullshit, but let's let them flatuate, while we ram a red-hot iron rod up their anus, and pour molten gold into their mouth. Good enough for Crassus [wikipedia.org], good enough for the alt-right. (And, as usual, it was all Sulla's fault.)
[10:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:37] <exec> 08└─In Greek we have articles. Very handy. Latin, not so much. Barbarian language, really. Interesting historical fact, when the first translated the Bible, or at least the Greek and Aramaic sections, into Latin, since is was the "word of God, and immutable", they had to find some particles to represen...
[10:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:39] <exec> 08└─"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cill...
[10:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:41] <exec> 08└─A good part of the Anglosphere is yet to ditch the old imperial unit system and there's big resistance to that. Can you imagine the amount of resistance against changing the spelling? Will take many generations of rotten by rote brains until English gets a logical spelling.
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[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Don't get your hopes up. I don't think this is necessarily actual liquid oceans, such as are believed to exist below the ice of Europa, so much as small pockets of salt water that are locked up in the rock and ice below the surface, the majority of which will actually be microscopic rather than sign...
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─"has it killed anyone?" "yes" "Can they prove it was us?" "no" "keep selling!!"
[11:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─Unpopular pesticides are for the birds.
[11:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─Where's my +Cynical mod when I need it?
[11:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:42] <exec> 08└─"Can they prove it was us?"
[11:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:44] <exec> 08└─apk found a new target Loving the new SN format, trolls 4 life #LittleToTheRight
[11:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─It needed more editing, but essentially it's a fix for the long waits for a "check to clear" etc in the US. When this happens, you can get your money deposited immediately, no more waits.
[11:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:44] <exec> 08└─Hitting the nail upon the head. Phonetics is no basis for a semantic communication system! It is like Meat blowing air through its meat. . . Oh, heck, you just have to watch the video. [youtube.com]
[11:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:45] <exec> 08└─All our words are belong to you. We share you long time.
[11:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:48] <exec> 08└─Joss Whedon was ahead of his time with the English/Mandarin mix in Firefly!
[11:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:50] <exec> 08└─By that logic the whole world should listen to only yacht rock music, drive Toyota's, use Microsoft Windows OS, and eat a strictly vegetarian diet so we're all on the exact same page. I thought the new zeitgeist was all about diversity these days (e.g. I identify as a Klingon language speaker)?
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[12:22:37] <exec> 08└─The asteroid belt sits between mars and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and depending on the year, Pluto is inside or outside Neptune's orbit. You want the edge of the solar system, you'll have to go way further, to the Oort Cloud.
[12:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:39] <exec> 08└─Nasa has revealed its observations from a trip to Ceres[*], the mysterious world hovering at the edge of our solar system. Ceres is a dwarf planet, and the largest of the huge number of objects that are found in the asteroid belt at the far reaches of our planetary neighbourhood.
[12:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─Uh oh, sounds like the internal liquid ocean is slowly being ruled out. https://en.wikipedia.org(dwarf_planet)&oldid=829334934 [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(dwarf_planet)&oldid=972311024 [wikipedia.org]
[12:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:54] <exec> 08└─"Silent Spring" revisited? We must get rid of all these job killing regulations ... so we can kill everything else.
[12:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:20] <exec> 08└─Based on a sample of 17 languages, it looks like human languages have optimized at a bit rate of around 39.15 bits per second [sciencemag.org]. Those with more complex syllables are used more slowly. Also, what those bits are used for is a different matter and much depends on what the language is us...
[12:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1073 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:44] <exec> 08└─Esperanto was designed to be a language for exactly that purpose. Yet, my vote goes to Lojban - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] - as the language that in an ideal world, would be the language that all need to learn. A synthetic engineered language, it has been thought and design...
[12:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:59] <exec> 08└─Since BLM is so fucking important... Drop English and use their superior language that they call Jive talk. "My mf'ing n****r drive failed today"
[12:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:00] <exec> 08└─Trump will put an end to that.
[12:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:02] <exec> 08└─If the East Asian language is Mandarin. Empires have multiple languages because they absorb regions with other language speakers. But they have the power to standardize. And China is standardizing on Mandarin.
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X#Status_as_of_2011 [wikipedia.org] Nautilus-X ISS demo: Less than $200 million Status: What's Nautilus-X? Time to deorbit the ISS
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[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─Now I am become Ceres, destroyer of B Hudson's mind.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─They had me thinking Ceres was Charon with that "edge of the solar system" bit...
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks to disinformation about neonicotinoids, "Colony Collapse Disorder", of bee colonies, was a great big mystery a decade back. Wonder what those bird killing pesticides do to people? Makes us fat, stupid, and short-lived? Too stupid to understand that we're kidding ourselves too? It's as if the...
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[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks. For people outside the US who have never experienced "waiting for a cheque to clear" (I assume it means you pay someone from your account and then it takes days for the payment to appear in their account?) it helps to have it put into context.
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─I assume it means you pay someone from your account and then it takes days for the payment to appear in their account?
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter - banks will clear money from bankA to bankB in milliseconds, they'll still tell the recipient that it takes 3-5 business days while bankB "clears the funds" before they start earning interest in the recipient's account.
[13:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:11] <exec> 08└─Esperanto failed because the name itself sounds Spanish. Was it beyond them to think of a neutral name? If they fuck up even getting its own name right to start with, how many more fuck-ups there must be along the road.
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─What do they mean by "When English becomes ..."? We are already there. There are just a few hold outs as far as I am concerned and if you don't know those languages all their published science is lost to you, or you have to learn to live with the google-translate of them (which tends to become almos...
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:15] <exec> 08└─people that are lower then the middle-class In most of the world, people involved in trade or tourism have to learn English - possibly on the job - regardless of class. The real issue is that there is more than one kind of English. I once knew a tourist guide in Amsterdam who spoke at least seven...
[13:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─The decline of Blue cities, universities and the cancerous, anti-western and anti-humanist theology they preach. Come on Ari, you love to see it!
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:19] <exec> 08└─Technically, it's called Ebonics and it reflects a rich cultural heritage.
[13:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─Pro Trump posts stand out because it is hard to believe that after more than 3 years there are still adults who would consider themselves pro Trump. Maybe you have not been paying attention.
[13:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─...you WOULDN'T vote for someone who could fire bottle rockets out his bunghole? Because that kind of reality-warping power sounds about right for what we need right now.
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:05] <exec> 08└─And yet that still would have killed fewer Americans than Trump's "response" to COVID. Last I checked, we were up to two 9/11s per week worth of American's dead.
[13:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─https://giphy.com/gifs/season-12-the-simpsons-12x14-l2JdTZ9lwqmkfl82s [giphy.com] Man, when I looked at the preserved page, the only thing I could think was "superliminal advertising!" "Hey you! Join the Navy!"
[13:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:06] <exec> 08└─That might explain Afghanistan, but not Pakistan or Nigeria.
[13:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:01] <exec> 08└─All lotteries are like that, or should be -- there is a slight payout difference between say "pick X random numbers" where there might be no winners this week and some of those potential winnings are rolled over to the next draw and bought tickets (scratch or whatever sort) that have a fixed payout...
[13:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:03] <exec> 08└─unless you are living under a rock, you know it anyway
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[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─The real news here is that stupid internet-connected TVs WATCH YOU!. But nobody else on this planet has enough brain cells to care.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─Old westerns (are we talking like Rawhide?), I'd still rather watch that then most things available on TV today. Not that I would watch, it's just if I had to chose.
[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─What the hell is a CTV app?
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know and the summary is a mess. Sounds like people write throw away apps to push ads and public domain content to smart tvs?
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─If it only hurts advertisers, do I care?
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Pluto-Charon is also not at the edge of our solar system.
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─we have been able to discredit both the research and the researchers that were able to prove it
[14:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:40] <exec> 08└─In how many ways can you say that the weather is shit and it's raining?
[14:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─No, don't really see that happening any time soon. English replaced French as the international language because England colonized a large swath of the Earth and held it long enough to train the civil servants to use it as the language of administration, then tagged off with the United States which...
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─IMHO Esperanto failed because so many words end in 'j'.
[14:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:46] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that? We call the Celts "Celts" because the ancient Greeks called them Κελτοί. For all we know they learned the practice of painting their naked bodies with blue mud from you.
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─Pimsleur courses are awesome and spoken-only, so they're good for using while you're commuting or exercising. You can get their whole catalogue off BitTorrent.
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:51] <exec> 08└─Esperanto says hi.
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:53] <exec> 08└─Actually no, they don't. Unless you have problems with “many” English English words ending with -s.
[14:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:55] <exec> 08└─And I think is well preferable to English, where the youngsters still engage in spelling bees close to the age of sexual maturity [bustle.com] (up to the age of 15). Fer God's sake, isn't anything better to do for the young minds than to ask them to rote learn how to spell their native language?
[14:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:57] <exec> 08└─You might as well just say Ni Hao. You are more likely to find a person that understands that greeting, albeit somewhat depending on where in the world you are. Esperanto is just one gigantic failure of a language.
[14:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:00] <exec> 08└─Jen nia mondo. That's all I got.
[14:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:02] <exec> 08└─You are aware the the Celts were natives of Germania before migrating to that island? That Island has been conquered by the mainland so many times. The people that made Stone Henge were conquered by the Picts, then they by the Celts, followed by the Anglish, Saxons, and Normans (these being French-V...
[14:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:48] <exec> 08└─Or a long walk on a short pier.
[14:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:49] <exec> 08└─Right -- Go on down to the Chinese New Year parade -- don't be xenophobe. The notion that Democrats would have done better is pretty laughable.
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[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if all the sane folks do that, then god help us all. Just imagine a nuclear armed state where the motto is "hold my beer while I try this."
[14:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:48] <exec> 08└─We could use the H's from the water, but maybe Martian water doesn't have any H's in it? <no-sarcasm> My favorite line from various Sci Fi is: it's made of a metal not found on Earth. Really? What element on the periodic table is that? Or from Captain America, whose shield is made from the element V...
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─I get what you're saying, but any CO released into the Martian atmosphere will be quickly turned to CO2 again. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (under Other trace gases)
[14:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:52] <exec> 08└─ISLAND OF STABILITY ?
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[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─That, exactly. The entire advertising industry is built on fraud and deception. We should care that fraudsters give the advertisers some of their own?
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I recently clicked on a couple of videos, and watched an ancient episode of Combat with Vic Morrow and the gang. The individual episode was broken into three parts. No adverts, just the video, fed in three parts. Kinda nice. But I don't want to start watching hours and hours of Combat.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─Is that really news though? If so we should probably also have some headlines about how water flows downhill...
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[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─Still pretty damn far out, especially when it's at its furthest. I'm just wondering, now that nasa has decided to stop using the common names of objects when they give offenders, such as the Eskimo Galaxy, what are they going to call Uranus? Or a black hole? Or a dwarf planet? Asteroid? The dominant...
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[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─"has it killed anyone?" "yes" "Can they prove it was us?" "no" "keep selling!!"
[15:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, context. This particular poison is embedded into the seed, from which the plant will grow. It is distributed throughout the plant, as the plant germinates, then grows, then matures and seeds. Every fiber of the plant carries the poison. Every fiber of the plant IS poison. So, where is the...
[15:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─Some immigrants have career planning past age 22. I would point out that all of Trump's wives are immigrants. So he likes some immigrants which can be hired to do a job no American would ever do.
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Its dominance is a result of British hegemony from the previous centuries, though American dominance in the 20th century is basically its continuation. Anyway, its imprecision and ambiguity are what make it fun! How many puns, jokes and general humour are a result of deliberate misuse or wilful misi...
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─I looked at it too but I don't like its grammar and syntax. I would prefer free word order with synthetic or agglutinative grammar.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─The reform of spelling of English in America has actually been tried, most notably around 1906 with the "Simplified Spelling Board" spearheaded by Andrew Carnegie and endorsed by executive order of president Teddy Roosevelt (who used that spelling system for the remainder of his life). The effort di...
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:54] <exec> 08└─> the United States which is the world's sole superpower _military_ superpower. We've got some competition when it comes to economic and political superpowers.
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:56] <exec> 08└─English replaced French because Germany, France and England fought each other into the ground in WW2, while the US was unscathed.
[15:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:59] <exec> 08└─ICT?
[15:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─Other countries have reworked their writing systems to remove inconsistencies and historical baggage and make them easier to learn. China did it in the 20th century, Japan in the 19th century, Korea and Russia before that. No English-speaking country has yet attempted it. (Though there was a rumor t...
[15:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─English does not have its Académie Française, Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española or Chinese National Languages Committee. Article 344 (2b) of the Indian constitution stipulates that official language commission shall be constituted every ten years to recommend steps for progressive use...
[15:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─If you want to see what happens when the schools open up look no further https://www.npr.org [npr.org] That school in Georgia with the photo of the packed hallway already has 9 case...
[15:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:53] <exec> 08└─Looks too small to actually be useful. A rotating habitat has to be big enough with low enough RPM that there isn't a particular large gravity gradient between head and feet. There's other issues such as Coriolis force as well. Still have to start somewhere and one thing it would be nice to know is...
[15:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:39] <exec> 08└─My iPhone 6 Plus is close to 6 years old now and is still getting updates for iOS 12. Say what you want about Apple but Android updates are a joke.
[15:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:56] <exec> 08└─OK, I probably misunderstood you and agree with what you just posted.
[15:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:57] <exec> 08└─And the desperate And the greedy And the dreamers And the hopefuls And the idiots
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[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's every idiots goto password. Or 42, which is the answer to the question "What was the jersey number of Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player to break the Major League Baseball colour barrier."
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Or 42, which is the answer to the question "What was the jersey number of Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player to break the Major League Baseball colour barrier."
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I mined some coin in the very, very early days on a couple of the machines that I used to run the rc5des challenge on, just testing it out, but I never thought it would really go anywhere so I forgot about them. They're probably long lost on some abandoned hard drive somewhere around...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Damn it, that's the password to my p̶o̶r̶n̶cats.zip file.
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─What the hell is a CTV app?
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─What the hell is a CTV app?
[16:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─The asteroid belt sits between mars and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and depending on the year, Pluto is inside or outside Neptune's orbit. You want the edge of the solar system, you'll have to go way further, to the Oort Cloud.
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:21] <exec> 08└─Front Hole Planet. Angry Tranny Galaxy. Non-Binary Star.
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Didn't NASA claim that one of the Voyager probes had officially left the Solar System once it crossed the Termination Shock (at about 100AU) and thus entered interstellar space, revised it a bit when it became clear that the Heliopause was a zone, and then do so again when it turned out that the Hel...
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:26] <exec> 08└─Marvin is a Martian, and very VERY ANGRY! Is it politically correct / allowed to be ANGRY anymore?
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Marvin is a robot, and he's very dep. Are we allowed to say depressed any more? Be kind of depressing if we weren't.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─I would put the boundary at just after anything that orbits the sun. If it's under ste suns gravitational control, it's part of our solar system. If its not (say it's just wandering through, or it's not bound to our system by gravity, it's not really part of our sun's system. But that's just me.
[16:24:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─Thank God for that!
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─"Chinese" is only a language because China is a country. The only difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has its own army. The various Chinese "dialects" are no more closely related than the Romance languages of Europe. What's more, there are a lot of speakers of Chinese lang...
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─English is quite flexible and broadly distributed. I rather wish it would adopt the default adjective/adverb positioning from Spanish, etc. though. Ever since learning Spanish I've thought it improves clarity having the core concept expressed first and then described, rather than listing the descrip...
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[16:25:25] <exec> 08└─Not really, just a logical extrapolation of current social trends. And he wasn't the first. Once you step outside the blinders of American Exceptionalism you realize that native Mandarin speakers have us outnumbered almost 3 to 1, and China is very rapidly catching up with us in terms of political,...
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[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know, we've got plenty of misunderstanding, hatred, and war even between native English speakers. Might be interesting to do a historic analysis of how bad those have been between same-language groups versus different-language groups, but I suspect there's not actually much difference. The q...
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─You might want to google AAVE. African American Vernacular English.
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─It's dreich today.
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─Some immigrants have career planning past age 22. Translation for "some": Give best head to rich old person.
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─It's also possible that Biden isn't raising a ruckus because Trump is already dumping gasoline on his dumpster fire. The Orange Asshole is hoisting himself on his own petard.
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─You mean like SN from /. ?
[16:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:28] <exec> 08└─NASA likes to do smaller experiments before scaling things up. Like how the CO2 converter in TFA will produce a small amount of gas, and won't be filling up giant tanks for future astronauts to use. For the price of SLS/Orion development, we could have had hundreds of neat experiments like the Nauti...
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[16:31:15] <exec> 08└─“While DSP chips provide a relatively economical solution that allows mobile phones to provide end users with more functionality and enable innovative features—they do come with a cost,” researchers from security firm Check Point wrote in a brief report of the vulnerabilities they discovered.
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[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─6x9=42?
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[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─Isn't a radix of 13.5 a bit of a cheat :-)
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─You're assuming base 10. Try 13.5 (at least that's the radix I got when I worked it out in my head. I could be wrong. And yes, fractional radixes are not supposed to be a thing, but consider it the NEW new math).
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─I got a bargain on my obsidian crystal ball. Though I admit I don't have the skill to use it for predictions. It always appears dark, cloudy, or obstructed.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─But it does look pretty awesome at the bowling alley.
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─Haha, try again!
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─yeah, my bad. 6x7 is 54. Sorry for the typo.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─With your username, it is with delight that I say: whoosh! Missing this is forgiveable for the millenials of our time, but not a person of your august nature. I heartily recommend to you: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─Crypto should have a small account maintenance fee. There is an associated cost to maintaining an account, it's not free. For example banks sometimes charge such fees as well. The proceeds of the fees should go to those that are mining/verifying transactions. That way the currency can go back into c...
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─dark, cloudy, or obstructed
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─Correction : radix of 13. A radix of 13.5 gives 40. But I'm still claiming dibs for the invention of fractional bases.
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─After all, he'd still be turning quite the profit.
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─Try again, again?
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─... but I'm waiting to see what TripleVerify says.
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─If it just hurt advertisers, I wouldn't care; but it probably puts money in the pockets of organized crime or other bad actors. Also, simply hurting advertisers just ups the ante in the arms race. Blocking scripts? Hello interstitials. DVR? Hello crawls, product placements, etc. Submitted for your c...
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─I disagree, at least for solar-system local references: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] If we were dolphin, maybe the robot would be more appropriate... now where did I leave my third arm?
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─Unclear on mechanism: is the pesticide injected in the seed and from there diffused throughout the growing plant, or does the poison reprogram the seed - like a virus - to make more of itself as the plant grows? Also, is there any profit link whatsoever between the manufacture of these chemicals and...
[17:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─Interesting question - and I don't know the answer. If the quantity of the poison were restricted to whatever is injected into the seed, you really wouldn't have a lot of poison to be distributed throughout a plant that is hundreds of times the size of the seed. But, if the poison is potent enough,...
[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 2407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─It isn't only used to treat seeds. It is literally poured by the gallon into the soil surrounding crops like citrus trees. And, then is incorporated into every cell of the plant, including the flowers (bees) and fruit (us). With half-lives in soil measured in years, this stuff will be around for qui...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Ah, but we do have Oxford, Webster and Scrabble. No whime sayn.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─"Superpower" comprises those areas, plus cultural hegemony and technological prowess, which the US also enjoys. China, notably, is trying to extend its economic power to other spheres but has only really succeeded at technological prowess so far; it remains to be seen if the Chinese coronavirus will...
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─I just took a look at some sample Esperanto text. It was clearly doomed to failure in that it uses accents. IDK about devices in countries that do use accents, but in the English speaking world at least, keyboards just don't have accented letters on them, and it would have been even worse in typewri...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─English replaced French as the international language
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Language, culture, mindhsare - these are part of soft power that Chinese don't hold. China doesn't have any soft power. Japan does! Even korea does. India does, but not in English world. To have soft power you need a certain amount of artistic freedom of expression that simply doesn't exist in China...
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─"Chinese" is only a language because China is a country.
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─Note that in that same epoch, the international language of science was German and not French.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─As to Russia's present writing system, it is not much closer to the actual pronunciation of standard Russian than the UK's one is to standard English. As to China, the hieroglyphs are unrelated to pronunciation at all; a good thing too for CPC, politics-wise, as Mandarin, Hokkien and other such "dia...
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─English does not have its Académie Française, Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española or Chinese National Languages Committee.
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─"Better" is just an opinion, anyway. "Different" would be a better descriptor. The Oksapmin have a base 27 counting system, for example [mentalfloss.com] If the correct answer to a random question has a base 27 root you're a lot more likely to spot that pattern in a base 27 counting system. And, if...
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─If I wished to intone rather than speak, Mandarin would be fine. Except what's with all those hieroglyphs - my eyesight ain't what it used to be. If I wished to clear my throat while speaking, German would do. Except for how the word order I possibly to learn might be able. If I wished to clear my t...
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:13] <exec> 08└─Lol@ sn for the insightful mod. It highlights the level of intellectual discourse to be found here nowadays.
[17:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:15] <exec> 08└─Only one side, babe
[17:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:07] <exec> 08└─OK. But can it run my banking app? Sure, I can buy a random Chinese-made IoT thing with a screen and run it for awhile, but does it do the real things I want an Android for in the first place? Otherwise I'll just put Sailfish back on my Sony XA2. (I'm actually about to do this when I get my next pho...
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─You can't really stop them doing what they want, if they hired a new whizz kid marketing guy to do exactly that. You vote with your wallet. When on the receiving end (i.e. at work), I pace myself to give about what they paid for. If the guys making 2x my salary aren't doing 2x as good a job or (more...
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Team Unearths Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-infected Flyers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─Second wave, maybe. Fourth wave "femenists" are a lot more laid back and inclusive. Have a look, you might be surprised.
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[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing first ?CLX? machine in 1990s, it was using some strange architecture (FC687? Clipper? I don't remember) and Unix V. In a single CPU it was fast, really fast, much faster than Intel 486 which was the fastest thing in consumer PC these times. There were 4 bays for CPU boards on the m...
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I mined some coin in the very, very early days on a couple of the machines that I used to run the rc5des challenge on, just testing it out, but I never thought it would really go anywhere so I forgot about them. They're probably long lost on some abandoned hard drive somewhere around...
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─I thought that was ultra weak and crackable within hours.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe!!!
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─"fractional radix" -- my head hurts. I'm back to hating math like I did in college.
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─I think a fair amount of us, or people like us, did that in the beginning but then didn't really think it would amount to much or was worth next to nothing so it was just discarded.
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─there's probably a coin that does things the way you envision. Crypto projects have all kinds of consensus algorithms service infrastructure and economic systems. you can check out coinmarketcap.com and go to each coin's website to see what all they do. you might be surprised how much all these proj...
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─any chance bitcoin used to facilitate this backup method and The Guy actually has someone else's stolen backup? either way it's probably stolen from some Windows user. oh well, they deserve it for supporting the enemies of free humanity.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─$300,000 sale price, minus $10,000 purchase price equals $290,000 gross profit. Expenses of $100,000 reduce net profit to $190,000.
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─Correction: As any literate geek knows, 42 is the answer to "what do you get when you multiply six by nine".
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─Turns out the original poster made a typi^Wtypa^Wmistake. I thought it might be some sort of hidden puzzle. Now I'm bummed out. :-(
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─I can out-cynical "Most-Cynical" here, with this version: --------------------------- "Has it killed anyone?" "yes" "Can they prove it was us?" "yes" "Is the lawsuit payout and/or bribes to public officials going to be less than we make from it?" "yes" "Keep selling!!" ---------------------------
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─thanks for the info. "I have citrus trees in my yard, and to protect the state commercial ag because a single insect was discovered in a trap a mile away, the ag department came out to my home and pumped many 10s of gallons of neonicotinoid solution from a firehose into the soil around my trees" i w...
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─The paper does a good job of showing its model over time vs real data over time but seeing −0.08 ± 0.07% in their summary table for describing the local relationship between use of neonicotinoids and species richness(the core relationship the summary brings to our attention) makes me really want...
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Abolish the fed, and then banish everyone who works at any fed bank from the US. They are all complicit in sedition.
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─Thank God for that!
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─IDK about devices in countries that do use accents, but in the English speaking world at least, keyboards just don't have accented letters on them, and it would have been even worse in typewriter days.
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─First, Mandarin is not even the lingua franca of China. Officially it is, and is branded as "common speech" (普通话), but on the ground people outside the northeast tend to speak their own dialects, be it Cantonese, Shanghainese, Fukienese, or what-have-you.
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─I never said they had a 1:1 correspondence between pronunciation and spelling. Nobody expects that to happen for English in the first place, people in Texas would end up spelling differently than people in New York, let alone London. The difference between English and the languages that I mentioned...
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Go visit Mycenae (best in winter time) and the little museum documenting the site, and you'll see a map showing the trade relations of the Myceanean empire at 1,400 BC or thereabouts. They had trade relations with the North Sea coast, and knew about what is now the UK (tin mines, if I rem...
[18:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:31] <exec> 08└─Many of us don't consider ourselves pro Trump, we are just anti progressive.
[18:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─I agree with all that. But I still won't vote for Biden.
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─Where's Soylentnews' own RealDonaldTrump? That guy was funny. Haven't seen his comments in a while.
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─And literally every other human on the planet who does not agree with Fusty 100% is on the other side. Nope, but you show why Donald Trump is the President of the United States today. Didn't have to happen, but.. you wouldn't listen, so here you are... Trump v. Biden! Tanks a lot! for nothing!
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[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─At one point I owned a whole Bitcoin. I think over the ten years or so I had it it was spent on video games and gift cards (only really practical way to turn it into real money - my banks won't accept payments from almost any Bitcoin exchange). The remainder of it I cashed in for a £30 gift card. I...
[19:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:19] <exec> 08└─The thing I think you're missing, in a very big way, is dosage. Let's say your hypothetical plant has 0.05g of poison in the seed (that's about half of the mass of 1 bean, which is one of the heavier seeds out there). Unless that poison is causing the plant to produce more of itself, or the farmer i...
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─Abolish the fed, and then banish everyone who works at any fed bank from the US. They are all complicit in sedition.
[19:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:34] <exec> 08└─Ancillary benefit. Its real purpose is to make instant money available to the repo markets, which have already received about a trillion month in bailouts since September.
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─I looked through the article for "other, better, ways of learning" and only came up with one example, from Indonesia: Encompassing the flourishing of the whole child and the realisation of their potential, Tarbiya is a central pillar in Muslim education. Viewed like this, schooling that concentrates...
[19:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:41] <exec> 08└─My first computer was a well used and abused laptop i bought from a liquor drunk co worker for $100. He used to accidentally step on it and spill whiskey on it. Luckily he was a very emaciated man so did not completely smush it. That laptop lasted many years through all kinds of trials and tribulati...
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─What a coincidence my Toshiba Satellite also had broken hinges. They broke rather quickly, actually.
[19:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:57] <exec> 08└─No, we ended up with all the manufacturing outsourced, because of greedy corporations and corrupt politicians. Would be nice, if they at least had some American nationalism thrown in with that greed+corruption.
[19:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:26] <exec> 08└─He's President now because people like you voted for him.
[19:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:27] <exec> 08└─The US was still a proper world leader in 2015, but now the world will turn against US culture. Trump fully exposed the shittiness of Americans and how willing some of us are to do terrible things to others. No one will want anything to do wuth us because even the best conditions can change and bow...
[19:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:30] <exec> 08└─No, I wouldn't for the redneck down the street from me. I'd be afraid he'd decide that we hadn't nuked enough countries, yet.
[19:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:32] <exec> 08└─How about just pro American? The Democrats think China is so nice of a place to live, I invite them to migrate there.
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─:-) Nice try, but we didn't vote for him. AH! I forget! Every vote that Hillary didn't get is a vote for Trump! Of course! If you want to win, try to put up an opposing candidate, not a 44 year incumbent chair warmer. Nope, your party wanted Trump, even more than they wanted Sanders
[19:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:36] <exec> 08└─Why is this troll? Condoleezza Rice was Secretary of State during the Bush "W" administration, and was complicit in the illegal wars of aggression which caused the deaths of well over a million people (per the Lancet, not the B.S. numbers from "iraqbodycount" who require an Iraqi death to be cited i...
[19:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ULA and SpaceX Awarded NSSL Phase 2 Contracts - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:29] <exec> 08└─A big market for rockets has always been the military. So, it's not surprising that SpaceX would want some of that pie.
[19:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the "river" were a few centimeters of moist ground on an otherwise arid, brackish continent. That's not to say we can't make it worse. But I don't think the metaphor of a river which we know can be essential to life and the development of primitive societies is a good match for the current...
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[19:30:44] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, we don't have to worry about an industrial revolution on a second planet engaging in massive combustion of hydrocarbons.
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[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─How many more months must pass?
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─“The court’s ruling is stayed for a minimum of 10 days, and we plan to file an immediate emergency appeal on behalf of California drivers." - Uber
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─It's a clickbait thing. They were given 10 days to appeal, which stops the clock. They said they would appeal immediately, which in my dictionary is less than 10 days. It's like the other article that claims the asteroid Ceres, which is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is at the edge o...
[20:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─Try arithmetic to the basis sqrt( - 2 ). It was mentioned once in the Scientific American. The say coming up with trial divisors for long division required inspiration.
[20:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─Not even gonna try :-)
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─It would be news to 99.9999% of the population of this planet. Likewise the same have no idea which way water flows, and they still believe in barbaric imaginary magic sky beings. This planet is shit.
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─I'd have gone with that too, until I realised the possibility that our Oort cloud could potentially overlap with another star's; boundaries generally work better when they are a line rather than a zone, let alone when that zone is potentially half the distance between the centre of the two objects w...
[20:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─No, to be truly cynical (and the most correct unfortunately) --------------------------- "Has it killed anyone?" "yes" "Can they prove it was us?" "yes" "Does anyone care enough to vote against us?" "no" "Keep selling!!" ---------------------------
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─10 is better?
[20:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:48] <exec> 08└─Profit!!!
[20:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:04] <exec> 08└─You seem to have a very interesting definition for "trivial." I don't think that word means what you think it does.
[20:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:24] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in NC, I dug up fire ant nests in the backyard (to put them in those big glass pickle jars, and watch what they did to the other bugs, or when I filled it halfway with water), never got stung or bitten. Never been stung by a bee or wasp either.
[20:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:10] <exec> 08└─Here's a good read on Nigeria. [plos.org]. If you skim the top it just looks like garden variety anti-vacc, but the historical context and documented abuses are down towards the bottom. Pakistan has the disputed territory of Kashmir. It can't be easy to distribute vaccines there.
[20:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:11] <exec> 08└─Pakistan and Afghanistan share a border, and have similar problems.
[20:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:13] <exec> 08└─Did you play in the chicken coop without a mask? Particulate damage can do nasty things to the lungs.
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[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─He'll be able to get full benefits when he becomes an Uber driver after losing his current job - which is inevitable now that Biden's done the right thing and chosen a Black woman as his running make to neutralize the Kanye vote.
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─You don't need [sic] when you're block quoting! It is unnecessary and distracting.
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─In April 1976, Canon released the AE-1 camera. While imaging was of course analog in that year, it was the first (?!) camera to be microprocessor controlled. To put this into context, this was just before PET, Apple II and TRS-80 were about to appear, and they must have been developing the thing for...
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─Except the 300k is already in his wallet ... although misplaced; he just paid a finder fee. Besides that, I think your values are off: In the end, the infrastructure costs to run the attack were $6,000 to $7,000 instead of the roughly $100,000 they had originally estimated, Foster says. The Guy paid...
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:48] <exec> 08└─If it just hurt advertisers, I wouldn't care; but it probably puts money in the pockets of organized crime or other bad actors. Also, simply hurting advertisers just ups the ante in the arms race. Blocking scripts? Hello interstitials. DVR? Hello crawls, product placements, etc. Submitted for your c...
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[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─Still pretty damn far out, especially when it's at its furthest. I'm just wondering, now that nasa has decided to stop using the common names of objects when they give offenders, such as the Eskimo Galaxy, what are they going to call Uranus? Or a black hole? Or a dwarf planet? Asteroid? The dominant...
[21:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:48] <exec> 08└─As if we did not know where this interference originates?
[21:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:49] <exec> 08└─I can't believe people value things differently from me.
[21:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:59] <exec> 08└─Would such a shield be too heavy for Captain America to lift? Or would such an alien item made of such a non Earthly metal be too heavy to bring with them on the trip -- especially if the vehicles is made of this non Earthly metal.
[21:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:00] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that Mars cannot hold a thick atmosphere due to its core being inert and lacking a strong magnetic field.
[21:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:02] <exec> 08└─with a device called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE:
[21:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:05] <exec> 08└─Relatively trivial. And if you don't agree you need to pay more attention to what's going on.
[21:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:07] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that Mars cannot hold a thick atmosphere due to its core being inert and lacking a strong magnetic field.
[21:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:15] <exec> 08└─Ah, the relevant portion: === “Since September 11, the Muslim world is beginning to be suspicious of any move from the Western world…Our people have become really concerned about polio vaccine” [14]. In the same article, Datti Ahmed, a Kano-based physician who heads a prominent Muslim group, t...
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[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Goddamn booty kissin' bastards!
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─The print newspaper is done for. https://wccftech.com [wccftech.com] 20 years could be considered optimistic.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─One of my favorite words. I want to mod Thompson up for using it! I'm headed out to the bar now, to find a nice exorable woman.
[22:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you didn't create fractional radix systems first. You were beat by thousands of years. The golden ratio base is probably the widest used and formally studied.
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─Bad news... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─There are multiple ZIP encryption standards. Some are easier to break than others. Given the date, he probably used software that defaulted to AES.
[22:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:43] <exec> 08└─Missing this is forgiveable for the millenials of our time,
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─We should care that fraudsters give the advertisers some of their own?
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─I love those old Gunsmoke and Hee-Haw. So it's ad fraud if it's streamed, or copyright violation if played offline.
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─Possible sources of heat to liquify water: Gravitational tidal flexing by Jupiter - probably too far off, especially when compared to the Jovian moons; Solar heating - probably too far off given no atmosphere to generate a greenhouse effect; Impactors - would mean anything liquid would be very te...
[22:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 2407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─It isn't only used to treat seeds. It is literally poured by the gallon into the soil surrounding crops like citrus trees. And, then is incorporated into every cell of the plant, including the flowers (bees) and fruit (us). With half-lives in soil measured in years, this stuff will be around for qui...
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─Filthy rich capitalist with blood loot Use mainframe systems to bank and compute With the next technology credit to the wires Internet grwths the Man more suppliers
[22:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:08] <exec> 08└─...we are just anti progressive.
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[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Wear a mask made of newspaper.
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─And what we will be left with is.... cell phones or similar proprietary locked down DRMed devices. Too many are already giving the web the finger. Of course they will have eye and ear raping advertisements that can't be removed or avoided. Content will change from minute to minute so you will never...
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─Similar to the distinction between electronic voting machines and paper ballots...
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─Information that disappears when a service is no longer supported.
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─I'm in my 40's. I've never bought a newspaper in my life. I'm honestly surprised we still bother to print them, even if they are free, full of ads, and given away at commuter stations (like the London Metro paper). Honestly - what a waste of paper and energy. Print a thing on paper in full colour, d...
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─You could have a foldable iPad today. Just get two iPads and one of those magentic connectors down the middle to detach (like the keyboards attach to iPads already. From there's it's just a second monitor and software support. I bet if you got the right Android tablet you could do this now... with M...
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─Gnome lives matter, you RACIST!!
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─If you hadn't bought a newspaper 20 years ago, I would place you as ignorant and self-centered. Lots of people like you in your age group. Not taking an interest in the politics that go on around you. And now you reap the fruits of your ignorance. Hope you enjoy your lockdowns.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─In 3 years there will be foldable iPads and shit
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─20 years ago. For the math-challenged among us, that was the year 2000. 20 years ago, I didn't buy very many newspapers, either. I mean, it was very rare for me to pick one up - maybe a headline caught my eye. There was news on the radio, news on television, and, we were experiencing that relatively...
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─A giant flexible/foldable display might be nice, and potentially perfect for replacing a newspaper. If $device sucks, reviews or hands-on trial will let you know.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Honestly - what a waste of paper and energy.
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sumthin not right wid you boi
[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─These days maximum cynicism is about the only way to approach a realistic approximation of reality. Perhaps it was ever thus.
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:20] <exec> 08└─More wrongness from the redneck who heard it from a guy at the bar whose brother works with an orchard farmer that was inspected by his 2nd cousin. Yeehaw thems good learnin!
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Colony collapse has been a problem since beekeepers started using the modern style of hives - the issue is not solely pesticides.
[23:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recycling E-Waste Into a Coating for Steel - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:00] <exec> 08└─FYI: (grin) [soylentnews.org]
[23:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Closest Fast Radio Burst to Earth Yet - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─Which sent me off on an illusion shattering search to find out no, a magnetar isn't going to rip the iron out of your blood [quora.com]
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