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[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.eater.com/2016/12/28/14101172/ipad-plates-restaurant-quince [eater.com] I believe it. Most establishments will probably use ChiPads to save money, though.
[00:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─They may be losing money, but rich dudes are clambering to buy them. They still form the Overton window, they still serve as a trebuchet to attack your political enemies. I've been thinking how a newspaper could still be a profitable enterprise by itself. The national news and significant commentary...
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[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─Back when CNN was still a news organization, they never covered state and local news, for example. For that, and learning about local events (remember those?), you would pick up a copy of the paper. In those days, Craigslist didn't exist yet, so that's how you found jobs and junk for sale.
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─The print newspaper is done for.
[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <exec> 08└─I've always hated the feel of the paper, the fact that all the ink rubs off on your hands, that when you unfold the paper to read an article you end up looking right through the paper which makes reading it a lot harder, that you have to unfold the paper to read an article, that you have to jump aro...
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─Former newspaper of record, The New Woke Times won't last the decade.
[00:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:07] <exec> 08└─You should get a private room, masturbating in public like this is unseemly.
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─You should stop being a despicable bastard then maybe your kids would call more.
[00:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know, looked it up to see if it existed. Sux 2 B me :-) But at least it was a valid idea, just too late.
[00:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─I figured that out later. But at least it means I can deduce things I didn't know from first principles, instead of depending on rote. I'll give myself 0.25 points for creativity.
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoubleVerify Says Public Domain Apps Used for CTV Ad Fraud - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:39] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I'd be cheering them on...
[00:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:34] <exec> 08└─Hah, that's naive, thinking you can vote your way out of this system. You have the politicians arrange it so only 2 parties have a chance of winning, bribe both of those, and you're guaranteed to get out of any annoying legal consequences.
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─:-) Told ya it was the most cynical...
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[00:29:50] <exec> 08└─Well you're certainly not going to win over any of them with insults. Really, you guys are your own worst enemy. When you attack a group, they always reinforce each other and dig in harder. Next time try some understanding and you'll have a chance at meeting your objectives. Until then, you're actin...
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[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─That leather and brass contraption belonged to Sven's wife. Combination girdle and brassiere. Grendel was a big old girl.
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:39] <exec> 08└─I got a pimple near my peebles. Talk about aggravation.
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─Newspapers are reasonably priced kindling. They're also good for training dogs.
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─I wish they would all move out, so they have a reason to call. Better they call, than stand in front of my refrigerator with the door hanging open. 'Course, that's probably politically incorrect, seeing as they are millenials . . .
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─Now that the input port is covered, the output port is next. For an... ummm... immersive experience.
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─Craigslist didn't exist yet, so that's how you found jobs and junk for sale.
[01:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:29] <exec> 08└─This court decision is a money grab by the state of California. If the drivers are employees, Uber has to report all payments as earned income for each driver. This makes stealing the money immensely easier for the state: one source for all data instead of tens or hundreds of thousands of drivers tr...
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[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, a long, long time ago, my uncle allowed a bunch of paper wasps to construct their nest right over the front door. Now, I was afraid of those wasps and wanted my uncle to do something about them. But my uncle liked them. He had a bigger problem with door to door salesmen. And no doo...
[01:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:11] <exec> 08└─boundaries generally work better when they are a line rather than a zone
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Findings from Journey to Mysterious World of Ceres - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─But nowadays the mysterious world of corona is more popular.
[01:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:47] <exec> 08└─When I lived in California, 20-40 years ago, airborne spraying of malathion was used for fruit fly infestations. My recollection is that malathion is one of the less harmful insecticides, although it does damage acrylic car paint. What state are you in, that they engaged in neonicotinoid abuse? Nico...
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[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─Soviet version does exist and is probably better than Musk's. Soviets designed parts of rockets that would glide back home. No propellant or excessive stress. One version was actually shown at Paris air show https://en.wikipedia.org(rocket_booster) [wikipedia.org]
[02:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─I believe the correct terminology is detectorist... https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─I suspect there will be services that print out requested web pages and deliver them via mail or express carrier, but the dedicated for-print paper will end.
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─Not so fast, how will I do my crossword puzzle, in pen, on a tablet?
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─you're just figuring that out?
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─Rich old white man keeps subservient black woman in his office.
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─The Guy took the deal. After all, he'd still be turning quite the profit.
[02:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:39] <exec> 08└─Bummed out? When I first saw your analysis I thought "makes sense" and "another math thing beyond me". Many of life's great innovations have been stumbled upon, or at least motivated by unintended circumstances (mistakes?). Now you just need to apply for a math research grant and show us how it's do...
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[02:30:17] <exec> 08└─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 in two major western publications to count in their death toll.
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[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Launching the Mars Perseverance rover with their RD180 engine! https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─While I agree that the Russian (the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991) version would probably be better it is still a long way from actual flight. from your linked wiki A full-size engineering mock-up of the Baikal was exhibited at the Paris Air Show in July 2001
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─just little more than a well defined dream
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[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Baikal is planned for ~200kN of thrust vs Falcon 9's 7,607 kN. These boosters really aren't in the same class size wise. Also Falcon 9's MECO happens at ~ mach 10, where Baikal is targeting mach 5.6. That a huge difference aerodynamic heating and downrange distance wise. Reusing the first stage is m...
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─And there is an aristarchus submission that mentions the Bronze Age Pervert, that is probably not at all related. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─in case anyone was wondering
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─Why the discrimination? Fuck the millenials.
[03:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:33] <exec> 08└─In my neck-of-the-woods, which is a quintessential police state, the local paper is mostly nothing but LEA bait intended to appeal to the community ne'er-do-wells. It's a waste of paper.
[03:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:34] <exec> 08└─If we can't figure out a business model for the press, the press that keeps check on the gov'ment... Well, I guess we will all turn into China, Russia, or Brazil. You know, the "shit-hole countries."
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer [wikipedia.org]
[03:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:48] <exec> 08└─And you did it independent of that knowledge. If I had a nickle for everything I've invented that's already been invented, well, I'd have some nickles.
[03:26:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06When English Becomes the Global Language of Education We Risk Losing Other, Better, Ways of Learning - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:47] <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...
[03:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Shuts the Lid on Laptops After 35 Years - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:35] <exec> 08└─I was considering epoxying a cabinet hinge onto the thing for the win but friend's wife didn't like the idea. She'd rather prop it up with something.
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[03:28:36] <exec> 08└─Buy at least 1 extra remote (if you haven't already), and / or a universal / multi-device one.
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[04:24:49] <exec> 08└─Probably using an Intel processor.
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[05:23:36] <exec> 08└─Write on the screen, then hit it with the sandpaper.
[05:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:32] <exec> 08└─Most probably had a impersonation issue with the real realdonaldtrump which in truth was a Soros backed disinfo agent. Clearly.
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[06:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2020 Peaks Tonight -- Here's How to Watch Live - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─Look! Up in the sky!
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[06:22:36] <exec> 08└─It's Patchy Fog!
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[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─I tend to think of them as the "slightly more meteors than usual in August" thing, with most of them not being really special, but one year I really saw them put on a show. We made a special trip up to the Blue Ridge in Virginia. It wasn't a perfectly dark sky, because lights from the Shenandoah Val...
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[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─Putin's latest round of nuclear weapons
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─An untested Russian technology is not "probably better". If that's the standard you want to use, by the time Russia launches a partially reusable rocket in 2035, Musko will be launching thousands of superior fully reusable Starships. Russia does not have a serious space program right now. As the art...
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[06:23:04] <exec> 08└─mentions the Bronze Age Pervert
[06:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:05] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, not as much as rampant right-wing censorship! #Freearistarchus!!!! What, still?
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[06:24:00] <exec> 08└─While there is progress in selecting a black woman as VP... she would still be playing second fiddle to another white male. I am voting for Hillary this November because her turn is long overdue.
[06:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:59] <exec> 08└─> Except the 300k is already in his wallet Nonsense. The wallet contained neither dollars nor proxies thereof.
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─Even Malathion is poisonous to a few people. It's an organophosphate like all nerve gases and many insecticides that most people have an enzyme in their liver that beaks it down really quick, except a small number of people missing that enzyme.
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[06:30:45] <exec> 08└─Speaking from the provinces, we have progressives and free thinkers. Free thinkers wondered at the scandal of Italian money given to the Clinton foundation just before the election. Then wondered at the projections which gave the losing candidate as a basically sure winner. Now we are wondering at t...
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[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, and the food must be good as it's on the menu. That's why I expanded with the analogy, as I know my first expression of the concept was imperfect. I was using "drive" as in the "move" of the "prime mover" argument, an prerequisite cause.
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[07:22:51] <exec> 08└─The Russians are a mere shadow of their former selves. Maybe the US should just annex them and move on already.
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[07:23:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is NOT what's commonly trotted out: "virtual beats physical", "atoms versus electrons", blah blah blah. The reason people are giving up on papers, and to a lesser extent magazines, is personalized content versus non-personalized. Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/promotional emails now feed you a...
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[07:25:02] <exec> 08└─0.25 points? You're probably showing off by giving yourself the points in base 0.14159265. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) That is more than 263.5 points in base ten … I think.
[07:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:43] <exec> 08└─I guess this a limited time service of around the clock (the 24) service measured in weeks (× 7) for 365 weeks (× 365), which is around 7 years (6.99535240286 years) Or could it be interpreted some other way?
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[08:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:32] <exec> 08└─Don't think that will fit in my kitchen, neither would a gas one
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[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─While Lucid moves the bar up for battery life, Audi has made a pretty weak first move says http://www.autoextremist.com [autoextremist.com] affordability in the BEV era is a completely different equation. The latest painful...
[08:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─> the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991 So what? The Сове́т (Soviet) Федера́ции (Federation) is the official name of the Russian Federation's senate. If they're happy with that term (meaning "council"), then we should be too. And before you say "just restricting it to the word des...
[08:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:59] <exec> 08└─Let's get it out of the way that Russia had been carrying the American space program for ~15 years until Musk showed up a short time ago. The vocabulary: "blusters", "appears to be increasingly disengaged from reality", "big promises", "supposedly bright", "fantastical claim" - I want to read facts,...
[08:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 2920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:54] <exec> 08└─Because someone reading a trash tabloid opinion piece in The Sun or The Daily Mail is going to be better informed than someone who actually sat, looked up people's history, politician's declarations of interest, used resources from all over the world from their university Internet account and broadb...
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[08:23:56] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Personalization is pushed by the internet advertising giants (as the reason for their existence), but I think most people will still balk at the idea of preferring to consume news that promises to be "tailored to them". It would make them aware they are being filter bubbled. IMO, the rea...
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[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─I know of at least one small company (under 10 people) that received Payroll Protection Plan money to keep their people employed. However, their business wasn't interrupted to any great extent, so they appear to have received assistance under false pretenses. Not quite the same as money laundering (...
[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:34] <exec> 08└─but pisses me off none the less.
[09:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─Just curious.
[09:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─Charge time doesn't seem to have been released yet. Will probably depend on the model, but I'd guess 2-3 hours? With the long range model (described in tfa) it looks like it can charge at 150kw, if you can find that charger.
[09:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:12] <exec> 08└─Little Russia all mad about shitty science journalism? You frost stompers never could reign in your egos, and that is something coming from the US.
[09:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:14] <exec> 08└─An untested Russian technology is not "probably better".
[09:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:10] <exec> 08└─It depends on who's doing the tailoring and for what purposes. If Google or Amazon are tailoring ads for me, that's different from paying money to nytimes.com to get me hard copy information. I don't trust internet advertising giants with that - but the hard copy papers have a really good ethos abou...
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[10:22:35] <exec> 08└─Some good has come from the deaths of 200,000 Americans! Probably more work for Runaway, out at the Moonshine setup, as long as he can outrun the revenooers.
[10:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:36] <exec> 08└─... is to buy yourself one or more politicians. The sorts of criminals who wear expensive suits and never serve any jail time have been doing that for decades.
[10:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:38] <exec> 08└─The system has a branch dealing with enforcing laws against the enemies, and another breaking laws against the enemies. The latter is called organized crime, as they are intent in sucking all money, just like governments do . It is a good canary. When it definitely disappears the beast has gained fu...
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─Could be less, based on "900V battery pack" - means it needs less charge for the same amount of stored energy.
[10:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─What's "destination"?
[10:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:19] <exec> 08└─It's also subject to the usual Russian curse of drastic underfunding unless it's military. Rogozin hasn't "disengaged from reality", he's playing the standard funding game of promising miracle solutions in order to get a fraction of what he's asking for at which point he can say he wasn't able to de...
[10:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:44] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1970's the Loveland Instrument Division (LID) of HP in Colorado, USA
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[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─In the US, car dealerships add a fee to the vehicle price that - they claim - covers their shipping and preparation costs for the vehicle. I think it's just an excuse to advertise one price and then charge something higher, like Comcast cable.
[11:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:52] <exec> 08└─Less current. Same energy. But the charge time will be largely unaffected. And once you figure in transformer losses, etc.
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─> "900V battery pack" -- means it needs less charge for the same amount of stored energy. How do you define "charge"? I think what you mean is less amperage (thus smaller wire size) for the same charging power. Power in Watts = volts x amps.
[11:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─Power x time = energy = total_charge x voltage. Higher voltage means lower amount of charge required for the same total energy. Lower amount of charge means: - keep the intensity the same (and thick cables) and lower the amount of time required for a full charge - keep the charging time the same and...
[11:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:58] <exec> 08└─Less current. Same energy.
[11:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming we don't have that in the UK. Never heard of that, and bought a new car only a few years ago direct from the dealer. Sorry, but if the car is £20k, then the delivery cost to the dealer is out of YOUR profit, not added to my cost as an additional extra. Certainly not of that amount! A c...
[11:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:29] <exec> 08└─The US should regime change itself first. 0) Has oil? Check 1) Human rights violations? Check 2) Corrupt dangerous leader? Check 3) Civil unrest? Check 4) Rigged elections? Check
[11:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─If you hadn't bought a newspaper 20 years ago
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[11:24:28] <exec> 08└─Add to that classifieds: garage sales, moving sales, pets, cars, bikes
[11:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:30] <exec> 08└─The reason people are giving up on papers, and to a lesser extent magazines, is personalized content versus non-personalized.
[11:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:48] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I have a problem with people who don't want to pay their taxes. Therefore I have a problem with people who want to HIDE their earnings from the government.
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[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─So what! My D-cell torch strapped to a hoover, sends electrons at 100.00 percent the speed of light.
[12:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if it's a 10KW charger, then it's a 10KW charger, the battery isn't going to charge any faster whether it's a 900V battery or a 12V battery. You're just converting/transporting power. And a 900V charger still has a wattage. Of course a 900V 100A charger will do more than a 900V 10A charger,...
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[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─I could deal with a range of ~350km for the vast majority of my use, but when I'd need more it would probable be a lot more, 1000+ km. So this falls short of the occasional use case, and is overkill for daily driving. At this point for multi vehicle households, a cheaper short range electric, paired...
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─You'd use 900V because it requires less-thick cables, not because it charges faster
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─And enough AMPs to move a battery laden vehicle. This isn't grandpa's battery that is relatively safe unless you physically toss a wrench across the terminals.
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[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Like I said, it's part of the all too common tactic, at least in the US, of advertising one price but then charging the customer something higher. Often you can haggle that cost away, but it's all a game anyway. Maybe the vehicle is advertised at $30k with a $1k destination fee. If you say y...
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[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─That's my long term plan for our family, if I can talk my spouse into it. A hybrid for longer trips and an electric commuter vehicle. We have four kids. For our last round of vehicle shopping I tried to talk my wife into a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid (plug-in seven passenger minivan hybrid, 30 miles /...
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[12:24:39] <exec> 08└─It can use AI based summarization, use linkages to the online world using AR markers, and so on.
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[12:24:40] <exec> 08└─take broadcast news with you?
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[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone who confuses the two logos must be visually impaired.
[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─You don't have LawyerVision.
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─If any not-super-wealthy claimant filed that suit, they would be laughed out of court, and punished with a fine on the way out.
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[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─Is that like beer googles for the reality distortion field?
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yes but that can work to bolster Apple's case, because in fact some people are visually impaired. Isn't the legal system and its lawyers wonderful? (that was sarcasm)
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[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─How d'ya like dem apples? [php.net]
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─Their slogan is Think Different, not See Different. Bring back the rainbow logo.
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─Pew pew. (yes, I have karma to burn).
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[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Why? Not like the US govt has any intention to ever cover the budget deficit.
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─What makes it fraud? They probably followed the letter of the law just fine. Claiming this aid while retaining virtually all of your regular business is then easily found out in due course.
[13:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:35] <exec> 08└─There will never be a suitable replacement for gasoline-powered vehicles until they can be immediately "refueled" in the same time as a gasoline-powered vehicle can be. I imagine a standard that must be reached where some sort of removable power cell can be swapped out the way propane tanks are. Tha...
[13:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:37] <exec> 08└─Do you know about flow batteries [wikipedia.org]? The 'gas' station would have freshly-charged electrolyte available just like existing stations have gas. They need some further development to get to L-Ion densities, however.
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[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─Soviet version does exist and is probably better than Musk's.
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[13:24:32] <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...
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[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─The defendant should have offered a good faith eyesight test for complainants before the boys up the apples and pears [cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk] decided to proceed with this lawsuit.
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─Do you have to ask?
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[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─I amend my comment: I hadn't seen the "Prepear" logo when I wrote previous post. (What, read TFA? _AND_ links? Too early in the day...) I'd imagined a black silhouette of a pear, with stem, and a bite. It's nothing like Apple's logo: https://www.instagram.com [instagram.com] This case...
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[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Well... if I had to guess, I'd say that Apple feels compelled to "actively defend" its trademark in order to forestall any claims of abandonment, and this may be the closest thing they could find to infringement this month. They may "actively defend" against this terrifying existential threat to the...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─So Apple is claiming the rights of what? All Ellipse shaped objects that may or may not be fruit related? That they could somehow be to similar or? It's not like the Apple logo has always looked the same either. The current form of it is not how the logo looked to begin with. That said it's been som...
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[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─I believe the argument is based on the points of: - Fruit, clearly both are fruit - A right leaning leaf, signaling all kinds of things - no doubt, same on both - A healthy image for a health signaling product - Monochrome simplicity - Clean lines In all, they may have a dozen "arguments" for the si...
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─IIUC, this is not a suit, this is a letter to the trademarks commission saying the logos are too similar. There is no judge or trial involved. The trademark commission just has to look at the logos and decide whether they are too similar. And Apple is required to "defend their trademark", though the...
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[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─Tim Cook is clearly deranged. Pears are not Apples. Green is not Black.
[14:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:15] <exec> 08└─You're holding seeing the logo wrong. It must take real courage to weaponize lawyers without also creating negative PR nightmares at the same time. Oh well, I guess Apple has enough "2 Trillion Fuck You Dollars" to not give a damn.
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[14:23:17] <exec> 08└─- Fruit - A right leaning leaf - Monochrome simplicity - Clean lines
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─I hope the judge awards the defendant 1% of apple's revenue for time wasted, and to prevent similar cases.
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─Newcomer clearly should've chosen "Orange" not Pear - just no comparison. And yes I know the name is actually "PrePear" being a clever play on words and stuff, but you can also "Pre-Orange" your ingredients, mise en place. I'd get my coat, but it's a tad warm, I'll just go out.
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─Photons, dumbass. It sends *photons* at the speed of light.
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:33] <exec> 08└─No, it really doesn't. The speed electricity (a.k.a. the speed of electrons moving through a conductor when subjected to an electric field) is typically on the order of a few meters per second through a good conductor like copper. Or about 100,000,000x slower than the speed of light. Turns out colli...
[14:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─> The basic technology (radio-frequency oscillators) underpinning these machines however, was developed for radar during the Second World War. And velcro, let's not forget, was a spin-off of our spending of $10,000T on nuclear weapons. So you see, it's all worth it.
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah? Then how do you explain electromagnetism if not by the relativistic space-time dilation of moving electric charges [wikipedia.org]?
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 4832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─Since mid-2017, I've logged over 60K road miles on the Tesla Model S. Lots of work driving, long road trips up and down the east coast of the US, and inland as far as Detroit and Indiana - dozens of 500-600 mile trips. (Obviously, COVID-19 has changed the amount of driving I've done since Februrary....
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─The author has been paying attention to Russia's space program, you haven't. It was in a bad state, and losing funding will make it even worse. Russia had been carrying the American space program for ~15 years
[14:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─It's odd that the medium it is delivered on is still considered relevant. Information is cross-platform. I would go further, however, and question if the "news" itself is still relevant, no matter what medium delivers it. Journalism has been so debased that it has very little currency anymore. There...
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─You should stop being a despicable bastard or you will never have kids.
[14:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─In the long ago before time when Google was a bouncing baby search engine, they had a section called "News." They discontinued it, though, probably because as you scanned down the headlines from New York to South Carolina to LA to Seattle they were all the same, and obviously copied & pasted from th...
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─Fixed the flamebait mod . . .
[14:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, that propaganda mouth piece will be with us for quite some time to come.
[14:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:18] <exec> 08└─Article says that it was encrypted with Zip 2.0 legacy encryption, but that the particular implementation of that flawed encryption was good, making it harder to crack. The easy ones have not only the flawed Zip 2.0 legacy encryption but also a bad implementation of it.
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[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─While one might say it serves them right. It's the students and families that are suffering. I'm a bit torn on what should be done, but at a certain point. If we don't get back to business as usual, we will have a new economic depression. That would be bad for everyone, except our enemies.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─High school that massed hundreds of students into a small space without masks has developed nine cases of a highly-contagious disease
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't really come down on either side of opening schools. Yeah, schooling is critical, and we should open them as soon as possible. How soon is reasonably possible? I dunno, really. Schools have historically been a breeding ground for every infectious disease that man knows about. If the schools...
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Slow down. It takes time to incubate, time for symptoms to manifest, time for tests to be done. We don't know yet. It's within the realm of possibility that every student and every staff member in the school comes down sick in the next two weeks. I doubt that heppens, but it's possible.
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─As someone who is visually impeared, I'd add the word "severely" to your sentence.
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─That is one of those things that are "fixed" in the Apple logo. They took the "bite" out of the right side, otherwise it would just be a generic looking apple and I don't think they would have ever gotten to trademark for that since there have been pictures of apples since forever and it would not h...
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─That would just be another potential lawsuit as Orange is the current name of what used to be the French telecom monopoly. Which is now a multinational telecom company. I'm not sure if their symbol is an orange tho, it's like an orange coloured square (which I guess could be a zoomed in frame of an...
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Sadly, many judges who sit on benches in courtrooms all day every day do not see the legal process as a waste of time, but rather as an honor and a privilege, and anyone who is willing to invest the money and effort required to file a grievance in court is due their hearing.
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─The pear company is just getting started - fresh trademarks are almost always the defendants in these cases, hard to argue that Apple is infringing my brand when I have let them run rampant with it in the global marketplace for the last 40 years.
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─To me, this pear looks rather more like a green eggplant, perhaps wearing a bibb or formal shirt front... I'm thinking, as part of the out of court settlement, behind the scenes Apple may be offering PrePear some graphic design services.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping that the couple take Apple all the way to the cleaners. It's kind of tough to fight a company as large as Apple though, because it costs so much. Which is part of why I don't like seeing these kinds of lawsuits. The couple is running a food blog, not even trying to slap their logo on s...
[15:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:29] <exec> 08└─> It sends *protons* at the speed of light. FTFY
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─Just wait until those people on ghost hunter shows get a hold of these!
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─String theory is even faster
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong, the military is always looking for new technology to kill people with.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─Electric _fields_ propagate at light speed, electric charges rarely get anywhere close. I think you might be misunderstanding your link, which appears (my relativistic electromagnetism is 20-years rusty) to be talking about electromagnetism's invariance under Lorentz transformation - a.k.a. you shou...
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─They'll accidentally create a lot more ghosts? Well, they can definitely confirm the corpses anyway, the ghosts are B.S., but good for ratings. Fun aside - they actually did a show at a hotel in my hometown that's widely accepted to be haunted - as in normally level-headed people I know personally,...
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─Careful now. If the AI machine gets too smart it will get "tuned" to avoid seeing the wrong kind of criminals.
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Then you have to move on and make everything once removed a crime - money laundering, drug paraphernalia, victimless crime... https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[15:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─That is useful and interesting information. Most of us have little idea what's available, or how to use it. My general working range (to 90% battery) is a bit over 250 miles.
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─I'm excited to see the bar raised, but I'd like to see how well the battery holds up if you frequently use that range. Lets put it in taxi service for a couple of years for more data.
[15:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─An untested Russian technology is not "probably better". If that's the standard you want to use, by the time Russia launches a partially reusable rocket in 2035, Musko will be launching thousands of superior fully reusable Starships. Russia does not have a serious space program right now. As the art...
[15:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─Your freedom to choose your contractual relationship has been taken from you. I'm sure there will be no unintended consequences.
[15:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─I think it's hilarious that they claim that they will appeal on behalf of the drivers. Yeah, it's really good for the drivers to be paid peanuts while the execs get all the money. Not to mention that surge pricing is no longer shared with drivers. Bunch of liars and con artists.
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─For all her faults, at least Hillary always knew what state she was in and what office she was running for. This cannot be said of Biden. I doubt very well that he would pass that cognitive screening that the President keeps bragging about. To Biden's credit, Kamala Harris is no Tim Kaine, but she w...
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─Jackie Robinson's middle name was Roosevelt, after Theodore of that ilk. Teddy has been canceled, due to being racist/imperialist/sexist/unwoke/whatever. Therefore Jackie is also on the shitlist and is dead to us, canceled, deplatformed. The fact that you mention Robinson means that you are a despic...
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[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─> If we don't get back to business as usual, we will have a new economic depression. Well, a severe recession anyway. And yes, that's what happens when you have a severe pandemic. There's not really any way to avoid that part, all we have control over is how many people die. You can't go back to bus...
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─And when they spread the disease to their older parents? Their grandparents? Also, the avegare age for a school teacher is square in the danger zone of over 40 [ed.gov] so your claim they are mostly young is false. Americans are entitled to a workplace free from recognized hazards. [osha.gov] A glob...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Even assuming 100% of kids didn't develop symptoms, there's been some data suggesting they still develop a much higher viral load (as much as 100x), and are thus much more contagious. Exactly how "safe" is it for a kid when they infect their parents who are subjected to massive medical bills that wi...
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Dude, 40 is YOUNG! I wish I were 40 again, and in the same physical condition! Most of congress can't even remember what it was like being 40. https://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─Honestly, who are the enemies of America anyway? Mexico and Canada? Or maybe what people really mean by "enemies" and those who America has simply decided to fuck with and a pandemic can't be allowed to put a full stop to that!!
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─The virus doesn't give a crap about your opinions on relative age. The virus is more deadly to people over 40 and most teachers are over 40.
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─some data suggesting
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Should be hung by their testicles in the hallway for a photo op. Invalid form key: bPd5zsybjU
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Russia, Iran, and China are the top three that come to mind. North Korea too, though they really don't have much power to do anything. And no, Russia isn't an "enemy" as you put it; like China, they have aspirations of becoming a superpower again, and America is in their way. When one country wants...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Switching the schools on and off again like this whipsaws the students, parents, and everyone else connected to them. Switch them off. Homeschool exclusively. Lay off the administrators, staff, and all but a handful of teachers to serve as on-call tutors. Some kids have gotten services through schoo...
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─It would be useful to compare this to schools with different/better practices. It is the illness rate really worse than others? But, you know, that would be science, and might not support the current narrative.
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, but why should we care about this? Since when has America given a crap about the safety of teachers, or even paying them decently to make the profession attractive? The American people clearly don't care much about teachers, or else they'd make this a priority in elections, so why not just forc...
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─What some of us are suggesting is, we've over reacted to the most current threat.
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Except that our enemies are also suffering from the same pandemic. Not really, no. Just look at the numbers; Iran had a hard time at first, but we're far, far ahead of them in infections and deaths per-capita now, and they seem to have it under control. China has done far better (even if you believe...
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─I care because I'm not a fucking asshole. The government cares because the Occupational Safety and Health Act requires them to care.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─Math should be taught by people who love and understand math, not by English teachers who fear numbers. Where are you going to find people who love and understand math, and are interested in working in public schools (in Georgia no less) with all the discipline problems that exist there (not to ment...
[16:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Most people who have COVID aren't going to be tested and, by extension, aren't getting counted. This is particularly true for young people, who are more likely to have mild or no symptoms. If there are nine positive tests, the actual number of cases may be much higher. The spread of COVID is largely...
[16:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─You don't have LawyerVision.
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─This article [dailymail.co.uk] says they've already had to lay off someone because of legal fees. I wonder if the poor bastard will get his/her job back when the dust settles. Apple should be burnt badly for this shit.
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─Orange was actually a good phone company here in AU (I know, amazing calling a phone Co. good) until they got taken over by Hutchinson.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─1+n females at Apple are obviously offended by the pear-shaped logo. God's head will roll, & the universe shall be vaporized.
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─Replace "military" with "people" and you will be more correct. We have seen what "defunding the police" leads to in liberal Democratic cities. Imagine elevating that level of criminal mayhem to the international level if you weaken the military.
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─And imagine if you understood what "defund the police" actually meant!
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─It's not stealing, it's taxes. If you don't want to pay taxes, why don't you move someplace where they don't have taxes? I'm sure that 3rd world shithole is going to be a significant improvement jerkweed.
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:56] <exec> 08└─That argument is why we can't have nice things. All the morons crying about their freedoms while ignoring the fact that living in society involves giving up some freedom in order to have nice things. In this case, we have taxis where one could earn a decent living. That is before Uber and the like c...
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[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─What we'll get is the same amount of workload with just 4 days of it being paid. How many unpaid and never to be paid overtime hours do you have clocked already?
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─Several years ago my company decided to implement our 40 hour work week as (4) 10 hour days per week. With an hour off for lunch on our own time, that translates for me into 7AM to 6PM for 4 days. It's a long day, but if I must work 40 hours, then it's a better way of doing it. Longer weekend, fewer...
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─If people are not kept busy, they could Do Something, and some maybe even start to Think!
[17:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─> If we don't get back to business as usual, we will have a new economic depression. Well, a severe recession anyway. And yes, that's what happens when you have a severe pandemic. There's not really any way to avoid that part, all we have control over is how many people die. You can't go back to bus...
[17:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─And when they spread the disease to their older parents? Their grandparents? Also, the avegare age for a school teacher is square in the danger zone of over 40 [ed.gov] so your claim they are mostly young is false. Americans are entitled to a workplace free from recognized hazards. [osha.gov] A glob...
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fucking asshole.
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is that young and healthy people are getting serious medical conditions from COVID. Young healthy people are still being left with chronic fatigue, lung damage, and other long term effects from this virus, too. There aren't a lot of people healthier than college athletes. The Big Ten and...
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─Last week : Suspend the student This week : Suspend the school
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─What's worse: 1. 90% out of work for a month. 2. 15% out of work for two years. I think that if we had done a truly hard, intelligent, enforced lock-down, it would be scenario 1. Scenario 1 wouldn't have destroyed the economy. Many people can sustain themselves for a month with no income, and the bu...
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─There is a reason we didn't do a lunatic response like this to a seasonal infection for over 100 years.
[17:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:20] <exec> 08└─There was a lot less travel between states in 1918, so it was easier to isolate them from each other.
[17:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:22] <exec> 08└─How's Iran's economy doing? We're talking economy here after all, not infections or deaths, since the implied argument for "we need to get back to business as usual" is basically "let people die to improve the economy", despite the fact that that has never actually worked.
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─The truth? America can't handle the truth!
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:26] <exec> 08└─Quoth the parent: "For example, all kids should learn how to program from kindergarten on (adjusted on an age-appropriate basis, of course)." Oh please. Do you say that because it's the only white collar job left that pays decently that is not management? Why do you think that is? What do you think...
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Most of congress can't even remember what it was like yesterday. FTFY
[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─Are we talking about surviving the disease or fully recovering without any lasting effects? There is a difference with Covid, ya know...
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─I imagine Iran's economy is doing better now than when they were at the peak of Covid infections. What exactly are you getting at? Iran isn't an example of "let people die to improve the economy"; Iran actually handled it somewhat competently, given the challenges they had with being embargoed. I do...
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─What narrative are you claiming? This is a contagious respiratory virus with a long incubation period. Putting groups of children in small rooms all breathing the same air is a recipe for disaster. You want to try and enforce every child to wear a mask? Good luck with that. The narrative is you can'...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─I care because I'm not a fucking asshole. Well people like you aren't doing a very good job of voting, are you? Or you just don't represent the majority. If you did, teaching would be a much more attractive and valued profession in this country. The government cares because the Occupational Safety a...
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─If you teach programming like you teach the rest of the curriculum, you get a batch of cargo-cult programmers but not anything that can do more than copy/paste from stackoverflow. First move away from rote-learning, then try to teach something that can't be rote-taught.
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─That's how the 1918 flu spread so fast. But the key is that it was of a different nature as you said: it was much easier to isolate states from each other because they didn't just have people driving or flying all over the country willy-nilly like we do today. People stayed much closer to their home...
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─We should be looking at all the above. It is well worth remembering that a lot of people survived polio, but were severely crippled for life. So, yes, yours is a damned good question.
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─Hanging by testicles is considered poor form almost everywhere. Half the population lacks said testicles, so cannot be hung in that manner. Hanging people by their testicles is likely to result in tearing said testicles off, and allowing the hanged person to fall to the floor. It's just poor form, a...
[17:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─The Pear Company is a parody of The Apple Company. The Pear Company makes most of the electronics seen in Victorious. It is also seen and mentioned on many shows created by Dan Schneider, including Henry Danger, Sam and Cat, iCarly, Drake and Josh, and Zoey 101. All of the PearProducts were made spe...
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─So if it's at 0.9999c, the electron energy would be ½(9⋅10-31 kg)⋅(0.9999c)2 = 250 keV. This would have required a voltage of at least 250 kV (probably substantially more) to produce such high-energy electrons. Highly compact high-energy particle accelerators are the obvious application, but mi...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Naw, the Proton can be configured to make escape velocity, but that's still only about 11.2 km/s Not sure how much that would go up without a payload, but at least a bit :-)
[17:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:47] <exec> 08└─Is that a particle accelerator in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ...but I repeat myself.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─Closed out their accounts not long after the 'pandemic' began, once they realized what-a-bunch-of-bullshit the 'pandemic' is. Think about it for a minute: grocery stores, hardware stores, mini-marts, furniture stores, etc. are open, so why not the lobbies of financial institutions? In my neck-of-the...
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:33] <exec> 08└─Depending on how your power is being generated the environmental impacts may not be that different. Where I live an all electric would probably cause a slightly higher net carbon emissions, as local power generation is coal fired. That said, an ever growing chunk of our power is being generated by w...
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[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:43] <exec> 08└─I did enjoy 4 10's but like you the say it's a long day. I prefer 9 hour days and every other Friday is a day off. 9 hours wasn't such a long day and having a 3day weekend every other weekend was nice.
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─In the agricultural and industrial sectors, where the primary work activity is manual labor that produces goods and services, there's a direct relationship between the hours of labor worked and how much stuff you get out of each worker. In the commercial and scientific sectors, that relationship doe...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─Professionals are expected to work extra, uncompensated hours, especially during crunch times. Saying the work is 4 days means nothing. Compensate professionals by an hourly rate; that would drop hours immediately.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─And a 6 hour work day. You can run more shifts and hire more people, until the machines replace them anyway. But this is what we should do. Slowly reduce the human workload as the machines take over, and then kill us all...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─May I point out that hourly wages makes a person lazy? As a younger man, I worked 60, 70, and even more hours per week. Generally, I set a goal, reached that goal, then knocked off for the day. Now that I work by the hour, an 8 hour work day seems like a long day. It's made me lazy, I tell you! I do...
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─...and what do you do when the demand for telephone sanitizers suddenly skyrockets?
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─As a younger man, I worked 60, 70, and even more hours per week. Generally, I set a goal, reached that goal, then knocked off for the day.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─If people are not kept busy, they could Do Something, and some maybe even start to Think!
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─People had arguments against 5 day weeks in the past; one can research how that went over and apply most of it to current times. Technology is making productivity rise so it's possible and we need to increase the number of jobs and stop blaming those who are left out... plus the idea we can invent e...
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─How many unpaid and never to be paid overtime hours do you have clocked already?
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─May I point out that hourly wages makes a person lazy?
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─Germany pulled the "standard" work week down from 40 hours to 37 back in the 1980s... it was a weak start, but I hope the trend continues and spreads.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Slowly reduce the human workload as the machines take over, and then kill us all...
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised if having everyone working from home and completely slacking off 10-20 hours per week they're supposed to be working has had approximately zero effects on company productivity.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─By the time they rocket into the sky, it'll already be too late.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─I call the red guy downstairs and ask him whether I can sell him a few electric blankets.
[18:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─What about Sweden? Basically a month ago they stopped having any new COVID deaths; I don't think they are getting any new cases either. COVID is **over** in Sweden. You think we can hide forever from this. We are doing nothing more than dragging it out.
[18:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:03] <exec> 08└─Where are you going to find people who love and understand math, and are interested in working in public schools
[18:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:05] <exec> 08└─I vote. But unfortunately for me the votes of the anti-education nutjobs count more than mine do.
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─I'll take up for GP's opinion here. We already force kids to sit at computers, all through school. With few exceptions, their hours at the computer prepares them to be office drones, working in the Microsoft environment. Meaningless bullshit, preparing them to be wage slaves. They are taught Excel s...
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[18:24:10] <exec> 08└─All we need do, is move to Sweden!!
[18:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─Or Belarus. John McAfee has apparently picked that country to stay as he got mask trouble in Spain on his way back to Belarus. But it looks like someone is stoking a color revolution there right now.
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if a bunch of people are saddled with unpayable medical debt and/or left with lasting symptoms that leave them unable to work, that won't be good for the economy either. In this case, school is an activity that can be accomplished virtually. There's no need to make the pandemic wo...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─But it looks like someone is stoking a color revolution there right now.
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─School only started a week ago. Testing is still slow and the results take a while to come back.
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─So basically you're fine with a classroom full of kids dying in each school for the sake of them not being virtually schooled for 1 out of 36 quarters? You don't think that will cause any problems with education later when they get the message that society was happy enough for them to die for the sa...
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─Well, assuming you consider them an enemy woth considering at all, they'd be the enemy in my original post that managed the pandemic effectively, and whose economy would recover to pre-pandemic levels much faster than our own, and thus gain a strategic advantage. But it's not the pandemic that gave...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─Nowhere have I suggested any such thing. You don't get to spin things outside of reality.
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─Although it was decades ago, That description fits my Algebra I teacher. My chemistry teacher got in to teaching after several years as an industrial chemist. We lost our Physics teacher after a couple years when his commission was reactivated so he could work on the MX Missile project.
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─I agree: rote learning is part of that "preparing them to be factory workers" approach. There are a number of modern, better approaches.
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─If 75% of the kids get COVID19, and 99% of that 75% have full recoveries, then it's time for all the schools to reopen. Greater than 99% recovery would mean that we have over reacted all along.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─Hanging people by their testicles is likely to result in tearing said testicles off, and allowing the hanged person to fall to the floor.
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─None of those are even your continent. They are not "enemies". That's the doublespeak Americans can't get their head around for some reason. Russia and China are competitors. Iran and North Korea are resistant.
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─Let's see, 75% of 2000 students get COVID, that's 1500 students. 99% of the 1500 recover leaving 15 that don't. That's about a classroom worth.
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─That's the big question mark. TFA doesn't say anything about whether these cases are at risk of serious health consequences. If the virus isn't harmful to kids then it isn't a reason to close schools. From what I've heard (which isn't much), a tiny number of teenagers have been hospitalized, but kid...
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Oh please. Do you say that because it's the only white collar job left that pays decently that is not management? Why do you think that is? What do you think will happen when the labor pool of programmers is dramatically expanded to include EVERYBODY? Hint: Supply and demand will kick in and readjus...
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─> If 75% of the kids get COVID19, and 99% of that 75% have full recoveries, then it's time for all the schools to reopen. Greater than 99% recovery would mean that we have over reacted all along. 5.8 million school aged children in the United States. https://nces.ed.gov
[18:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─If I had had to study programming throughout school, I guarantee that I would hate it and stay as far away from it as possible today.
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─But that's how you do it, so they have more money for you to steal if you win the court case Granted you should probably sue them before they can hire a team of 100 ninja lawyers
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─The law itself protects them, if they have been practicing the use of the logo openly for a long time, any previous "rights holders" who have not vigorously defended against infringement lose their rights via abandonment. That's all Apple is trying to do here: protect themselves against abandonment...
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that is a problem? [sciencemag.org]
[18:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─You hang out in back where the ghosts can't see you. That way if the ghost wants a pillow or is going to complain that the TV next door is too loud, you're not there! Angry, malevolent presence successfully evaded! But too often I'll go into a hotel and see someone right there at the front desk. Th...
[18:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─Wonderful appy apps will app your ability to app that appword or sudappu with the appiest appness so you can app onto other apps. Apps!
[18:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times CEO Says He Expects the End of the Physical Newspaper Within 20 Years - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, because reducing your number of information sources is always best for ensuring you are receiving truthful information! Oh, and while my newspaper does still print a paper copy they also produce a lovely PDF file (or only html on their website, but I prefer using an offline reader).
[18:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular Pesticides are Killing Birds, Too - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:14] <exec> 08└─10 is better if you or the person you woke up next to took precautions to ensure you aren't paying for that night for the next 19 years.
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[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, any robust dialectric will do. Use a Faraday cage for RF. To avoid crosstalk, IFE and the control domain shouldn't even be on the same airplane
[19:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─Several years ago my company decided to implement our 40 hour work week as (4) 10 hour days per week. With an hour off for lunch on our own time, that translates for me into 7AM to 6PM for 4 days. It's a long day, but if I must work 40 hours, then it's a better way of doing it. Longer weekend, fewer...
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Could be different levels of engagement for work? I had similar levels of work productivity based on my excitement toward a project. The only issue I had working 60-70 hours a week was that if I needed to run some errands during the day the employer I had would say something akin to "you need to be...
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─First of all, and don't tell this your boss, but you working 4x10 hours is not in his interest because you can't be productive for 10 hours. Not even with a one hour break in between. As for why we're still working 40 hours despite being at least twice as productive [ourworldindata.org] as we used t...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─That sounds okay, but without increases in productivity, how are we going to get more wages? Here, just look at a graph of productivity versus wages over the last 40 years and you'll see... oh dear.
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─Oh please, you know anyone who really works 37 hours? How many people do you know that don't work some McJob that don't have an "all in" contract?
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─I'll moderate that as insightful and add also because we're stupid enough to let them get away with it.
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─You can already work less now. There's a strong Randian stench to the idea that you can work less hours only by forcing your coworkers to work less hours.
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─I left my previous job because I was tired of the long hours. They wouldn't hire enough people to reduce the overtime. It wasn't in their financial interest, because each additional employee carries a massive overhead cost.
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:18] <exec> 08└─My company went to 40hr/4day workweeks for a while. It was great getting 3 days off in a row, work ethics were better, it was hourly but you also a small cut (1-2%) of your productivity. Everyone was happy until California said anything over 8 hr/day is overtime pay. The company went back to 40hr/5d...
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─Money is a human creation. We've already had decades of increased production with stagnant or relatively decreasing wages, so your question is moot.
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─There aren't enough jobs to go around.
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─Every single mechanic who does aircraft maintenance for Lufthansa - for a start. I may spend more time with the office geeks, but there are more boots on the ground drawing hourly pay.
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─If you're leaving at 7AM, that's why you're tired. Working midnights is a horrible strain on the body.
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─I always hate when I'm too subtle. That's the joke.
[19:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:38] <exec> 08└─No. It's a pretty fucking small number for which to sacrifice all our lives trying to avoid the inevitable.
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─That's why I said you FIRST have to change the school system before you start trying changes to the curriculum. Else you're just pouring good wine into leaky casks. We have to teach one of the most important skills that today's society needs: The ability to learn continuously. To know what is necess...
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─People in Sweden believe in things like wearing masks to benefit others. They also have half as many infections per capita as the USA.
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─Reading, writing, and math are generally useful skills that can be used literally anywhere, in any job, or off the job. Computer programming is a much more focused and limited skill to teach. Might as well say welding is a useful thing so we should teach **all** kids to weld. You are confusing a gen...
[19:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit, you've been an anti-masker economy over lives asshile this whole time. Your attempt to seem like a centrist that just so happens to lean rightwing nutter is tiresome.
[19:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─Your anti-public schooling schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are bad, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't argue with that guy, he and runaway take classes together on how to be most wrong in a conversation.
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you that the voting public has a lot to answer for, your whole premise hinges on a seriously flawed metric and you should know better.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─A good point. Let's go even further though. There are ~51 million [educationdata.org] k-12 students in the US. If 75% are infected, that's ~37.5 million infections. If 1% of those kids die, that's 375,000 dead kids. According to the CDC [cdc.gov], in normal times, less than 10,000 children under 18...
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.ajc.com/education/9-cases-of-covid-19-reported-at-north-paulding-high-school/OWH6MN7DZ5A2XDQMXX337AQEWI/ [ajc.com] Superintendent says reopening plan coming Wednesday UPDATE: North Paulding High School remains closed Wednesday. Paulding Superintendent Brian Otott said at a school board m...
[19:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:00] <exec> 08└─Wrong5.8 million school aged children in the United States. https://nces.ed.gov [ed.gov] [ed.gov] 75% of 5.8M is 4.35M 1% of 4.35M is 43,500. 43.5 thousand children is a pretty large number to sacrifice so some clown's stock portfolio doesn't take a temporary dip in valu...
[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:02] <exec> 08└─>> Many people can sustain themselves for a month with no income, Not the 57% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Are you expecting them to starve? #BLM
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─Apple Computer: "There will be NO confusion! We won't ever get into the music business. We pinky-swear!" Lady makes pear logo. Apple Computer: "There will be total chaos, confusion, and anarchy!!!!"
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─But but but! It is a fruit with a leaf on it!
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Not even a color is safe from lawyers: https://www.npr.org [npr.org] Daniel Schreiber, the CEO of a small insurance company called Lemonade, was surprised this summer when he received a strongly worded letter from l...
[19:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:27] <exec> 08└─Two weeks to flatten the curve! Think of your parents! We just DoNt KnOw!!1! Testing! Monorail!
[19:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Has Changed How Criminals Hide Their Cash - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:29] <exec> 08└─And it is people like you that have us on a higher rate-of-death than the Civil War (the deadliest war for Americans in history). 150k in 6 months, vs 600k in 4 years. I think the war on Covid is going to take the crown, at least if we keep letting people that hate science run things. I heard Faucci...
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─The scrap value of the batteries in a Tesla is probably a few thousand by itself, so I doubt the used electric market will be great.
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Space Leader Blusters About Mars in the Face of Stiff Budget Cuts - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─Think you could help fix our elections instead of undermine them maybe? Help uncover all the fraud and 'legal' manipulations?
[19:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:10] <exec> 08└─People just don't understand what a hoopy frood the OP is... so unhip their bums fall off. A confusing guide for the confused [stackexchange.com]. slightly less confusing [spooniom.com] Or for those who hate links... *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) In the Hitchhiker's Guide trilo...
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[20:22:45] <exec> 08└─DMZ defeat=start from the other side, lot's of rf there.
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─The headline and the article, in parts even tho there is no scare quotes etc, in some way make it sound like it's something horrible that you receive updates via floppy these days. Is the product somehow faulty cause it download them ala some constantly connected IoT-device? It's old. It works. Why...
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─Economics. 3.5" floppy disks are about $2 a piece new in 2020 and don't have anywhere comparable longevity to a USB flash drive.
[20:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─What we'll get is the same amount of workload with just 4 days of it being paid. How many unpaid and never to be paid overtime hours do you have clocked already?
[20:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─they do still need to stay engaged enough to do whatever it is they do for the organization
[20:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:30] <exec> 08└─European countries generally have a lot stricter enforcement of labor laws, which includes real limits on mandatory overtime and extra pay for overtime. So in a lot of firms over there, 37 hours per week actually means something pretty close to 37 hours per week. They generally think the US and Japa...
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:32] <exec> 08└─If you're a vampire, it's an even greater strain to work daylight hours.
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, twice the workers means twice the liability - odds of an HR oriented lawsuit. Every person you hire is a potential existential risk to your company, more people = more risk.
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:37] <exec> 08└─someone with a title like "Long-Range Strategic Planning Coordinator" was basically unreachable for weeks at a time.
[20:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Alright, age has something to do with that, but it isn't all age.
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─If you're a vampire, it's an even greater strain to work daylight hours.
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Or riot in the streets and loot. (Happening now.)
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─My experience, on the other hand, is that once the organization is large enough and successful enough that there's no real risk of the whole thing going under, management starts seeing winning internal conflicts as an easier path to raises and perks than doing whatever the organization as a whole is...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─I was going to post something along these lines. Especially that this would effect different jobs very differently. Some of them, part of what you're paying for is simply having a warm body handy just in case. A lot of service jobs default to this when things aren't busy, but you still need every ho...
[20:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:09] <exec> 08└─Georgia. But it's been decades since I went to school there. Nevertheless, is 15 students not recovering per school really acceptable? Especially when there are alternatives?
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─When you send kids to school, you are intentionally putting them into an environment where they cough and sneeze on each other all day long. That has been part of the objection to opening the schools back up all along. Schools are breeding grounds for every disease known to man.
[20:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:12] <exec> 08└─Well if we want to reductio ad absurdum the argument, you can't put a pricetag on even 1 human life.
[20:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─I agree. I said initially that instead of switching public schools on and off again willy-nilly, we should switch them off. Homeschool in the meantime and move on to something new and better. There are experimental programs here and there that are trying what you propose (and I also support), but th...
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[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─Talking about the deaths from COVID is a way of underestimating the costs. If a person dies there's a short term added expense. If they've got a stroke or kidney damage there may be an ongoing cost that continues for decades. And a lot of people are experiencing continuing symptoms. Even the asympto...
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[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─Your triumphalism schtick is getting boring. If the public schools in your area are good, that's a local issue, not some universal truth. Students in school districts that are run competently with adequate funding get a good education that covers all of your areas of complaint, if they're white/asia...
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[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─Something tells me that even if you hated grammar in school and loathed reading Shakespeare in high school that you're probably still able to form sentences and read challenging material.
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't argue with this guy, he and his AC parent take classes together on how to be most mewling in a conversation.
[20:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:26] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair it's not clear that the early school levels can be handled remotely. The information can be put out there, but that's only a small part of what he early years of school are about. And I still think the cost is too high. Neighborhoods were isolated villages, then "village schools" wo...
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[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─Where are you going to find people who love and understand math, and are interested in working in public schools (in Georgia no less) with all the discipline problems that exist there (not to mention the constant threat of school shootings), for utterly lousy pay?
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─1) It doesn't happen that quickly. You've got to figure in a time delay of (approximately) two weeks. 2) Not everyone exposed at any one time immediately gets COVID. 3) Lots of the cases are symptom free, but still spread the stuff. 4) It looks as if there may be a few "superspreaders" who catch the...
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:12] <exec> 08└─You missed "Round Cornesrs"
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[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─3.5" floppy disks are about $2 a piece new in 2020 and don't have anywhere comparable longevity to a USB flash drive. However, they are reusable, and it would take a lot of $ to replace the floppy disk drive and then get the whole plane re-certified as airworthy (and its Boeing, so recertification m...
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─However, they are reusable, and it would take a lot of $ to replace the floppy disk drive and then get the whole plane re-certified as airworthy
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─Somewhat related, just started to wonder but how many factories are there around that still crank out 3.5" floppies? There must be a few around still. I guess if Boeing had to they could probably set up their own machine to make enough to cover their own needs (and then some). So there is no risk of...
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─Can't they just pxe network boot the plane by loading a FreeDos image containing the BIOS flasher off one of the flight entertainment system's USB ports? I mean sure you'd have to set a jumper on the motherboard so that some snotty 8 year old kid couldn't activate it mid flight by entering a magic c...
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─For a multi-million dollar plane that costs $10,000/hour to operate, the $2 floppy is lost in the noise even if they have to buy one per plane every month. The person inserting the floppy into the drive costs many times that much. A new drive is under $40. OTOH, re-design, re-certification, and retr...
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:43] <exec> 08└─Turn them in for wage theft. Many states and countries will require them to pay the employees more money to make up for the the TVM and some will even give the whistleblower a percentage of any fines as an extra incentive.
[21:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─I shoulda realized, hadn't had my caffeine yet.
[21:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─All this is largely to disguise the fact that once you get a couple steps above the ranks of the people that directly produce or sell things, basically everybody is in over their heads and doesn't have the slightest clue what they're doing.
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─Hahaha whaaat? Someone actually modded that flamebait? Hope that was a misclick.
[21:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─Here's one of said graphs: https://www.epi.org [epi.org]
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─There's also the question of permanent damage. This is what bothers me. Even asymptomatic people have shown signs of heart damage a couple of months after they "cleared". And kidney damage doesn't show up as easily. Fortunately you start with more than twice as much kidney capacity as you need, but...
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─Guess you're outnumbered, and maybe the people you vote for aren't very appealing. Pretty easy to see how the system works
[21:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:27] <exec> 08└─"to sacrifice all our lives trying to avoid the inevitable" lololol citation needed ;) just how dumb are you anyway?
[21:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─Guess you're outnumbered,
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:31] <exec> 08└─Not my fault your opinions aren't worth engaging seriously with. Maybe you should go to some college campuses and argue with some first years.
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─Australia [archive.org] has managed it for years. It beats a repeat of the summer camp fiasco [webmd.com].
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─Your copy/paste skills are great, keep it up, very convincing. So much wow, possibly even a shamwow.
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─Oh look at this guy, probably thinks masks help COVID. Not surprising their username is Dr SPIN!!@!
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah but (currently) quite a few more deaths per capita than USA, and over ten times the deaths per capita of neighbouring countries who did it differently.
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─China has done far better (even if you believe they cooked the numbers),
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─And that's why it is foolish to send them to school during a pandemic unless you're trying to get rid of them.
[21:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─You have to win the majority of electoral votes. Gonna keep telling yourselves it ain't so? You were outnumbered, and you might be again, for the exact same reason, the real one, not one your fantastic half-baked conspiracy theories Your DNC is bogus, but right now we need a mannequin in the office...
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─There are people who love math, love kids, and love teaching. They don't need to have Gauss's ability to do that. They could be taking a breather from working in industry, or be retired. They could love time off more than money. If there were a sufficient number of people fitting this description, w...
[21:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:51] <exec> 08└─Awww stupid fusty is leaking his rightwing bias again. Better do some more damage control posts. I suggest insulting Trump, centrists love that one!
[21:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:53] <exec> 08└─Or, bear with me here, we put all the corrupt assholes in prison and appoint a real educator instead of some greedy evangelical bitch? Nah, makes too much sense. Better burn the whole country down and let the Native Americans rebuild.
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─"I'd say that Apple feels compelled to "actively defend" its trademark in order to forestall any claims of abandonment," No. The trillion dollar company doesn't actually need to sue a recipe app with a fruit themed logo to convince the court that it hasn't abandoned it's most prominently marketed an...
[21:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:38] <exec> 08└─Its more likely that apple's legal team found a flimsy excuse to issue some more billable hours to their trillion dollar sugar daddy. That's why these things really happen.
[21:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:05] <exec> 08└─Just like a Leftist. Pretending not to understand what simple English words mean.
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[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─You'll really screw up the climate with all that water vapor!
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:44] <exec> 08└─Within 30 minutes, the MOF was able to reduce the total dissolved solids (TDS) in the water from 2,233 parts per million (ppm) to under 500 ppm. That's well below the threshold of 600 ppm that the World Health Organization recommends for safe drinking water.
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─To do so, it's placed in sunlight, which causes it to release the captured salts in as little as four minutes.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─Then go to your city council with a good way to recycle water, then let the local news get ahold of it, and just watch the fireworks. Me? I understand the chemistry and physical properties. I'm just not sure I trust local government to not save a few $$$ and let a little pee and poo into my drinking...
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Plus how many of today's exploits fit on a 720k floppy? And not many USB sticks with a physical write-protect tab. Plus it's not like the techie is going to accidentally mistake the floppy for a USB stick with his porn collection on it.
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─Floppies are tough. I took a bunch, used a needle to make holes in them, reformed them, they worked just fine (a few sectors marked bad was no big loss). Tried microwaving a few using a drinking glass as an isolator, the still arced. But microwaving a CD produced pretty colourful Christmas ornaments...
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─From 94 to 96 I consulted for a company that was digitizing ads for cable TV. Back then the model was you had 3-4 VCRs per channel, and a worker bee that ran around inserting the appropriate tape containing a single ad into the appropriate VCRs as needed. We had a single 486 PC (not Pentium, we were...
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─They probably have a stockpile of AOL floppies to reuse.
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─got to keep the cattle entertained, or they might demand comfortable seats and edible food.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─Not with windows. I used to back up Money99 on floppies, never had an error pop up during backups but when I needed the floppy to recover what was lost on the hard drive... Disc corrupt. Lost 6 months of shit.
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─I pretty much backed up all my 720k 5.25" floppies last year without many bad sectors. The 3.5" disks though -- They already were shit back in the day, and any use of them for backup needed an ECC pass.
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Floppy disk: $1-$2. Old PC sitting in a corner for reliably recording it: A smile to recycling guy in any computer company (no, USB floppy drives are not reliable at all, that's my experience). If security is important, a bunch of batteries or even generator is the most expensive part of the framewo...
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:21] <exec> 08└─From sources, it's 8 floppies. A quick comparison: - Installing a pure DOS 6.22: 3 floppies - Installing Windows 3.11: 10 floppies, 11 floppies with network. - Installing Windows 95: circa 26 floppies, do not remember were all needed. - Mac OS 6: 6-8 floppies, depends on configuration. ...
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:23] <exec> 08└─They really should just spike the drinks, it solves all the major problems, except incontinence maybe
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─Your cluelessness about Ayn Rand is total, starting with the word "force".
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─as we reach the physical limitations of earth
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:21] <exec> 08└─In the agricultural and industrial sectors, where the primary work activity is manual labor that produces goods and services, there's a direct relationship between the hours of labor worked and how much stuff you get out of each worker
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─If you feel imposed upon by working 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, the problem is with you, not your employer. If you want to get ahead in life, do more than the job demands. Eventually your increased value to the company should result in increased pay and improved position. Those who don't provid...
[22:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─getting something else productive done during those 10-20 hours instead of just hiding in an office
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─I use Randian here in the same sense that one would use Orwellian.
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─Or of the physical limitations of Earth for that matter.
[22:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HS That Suspended Teen Who Tweeted Photo of Hallway Has 9 COVID-19 Cases - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that was a joke.
[22:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:04] <exec> 08└─> As someone who is visually impeared... I see what you did there.
[22:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:05] <exec> 08└─But the point of a trademark is to be a unique mark to prevent confusion. If Apple claims any generic shape kind of like a round fruit, doesn't that make confusion in itself?
[22:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unique Bronze Age Hoard Found Near Peebles by Metal Detector Enthusiast - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:10] <exec> 08└─I was. Thank you. Came here to bitch about that, but now I don't need to. ;)
[22:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old ZIP File - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:35] <exec> 08└─Kind of hurts that the loss of white privilege is happening on your watch, doesn't it? It's looking less likely, but maybe come November you'll be able to keep those "undesirables" *nudge nudge, wink wink* out of your suburbs for another four years. But you're going to have to come up with some new...
[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Reserve Announces Details of New 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service w/ Clearing Functions - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:18] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. It grates me every time I hear 24x7x365. Make it 24x7x50 or 24x365. As Biff says, "you sound like an idiot when you say it that way!”
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[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─So you need 10 MOF devices in series?
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone grew up in a desert.
[23:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─For a multi-million dollar plane that costs $10,000/hour to operate, the $2 floppy is lost in the noise even if they have to buy one per plane every month. The person inserting the floppy into the drive costs many times that much. A new drive is under $40. OTOH, re-design, re-certification, and retr...
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─Those who don't provide extra achievement are not the people that management thinks of when looking for people to promote.
[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─If you feel imposed upon by working 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, the problem is with you, not your employer.
[23:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─That may have been the German standard too...
[23:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compact Particle Accelerators Drive Electron Beams to 99.99% Speed of Light - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─Now we just have to reliably generate 250kV in a pocket-sized form factor... I once hacked together a 6kV connector for an ion pump from a 2mm ferule crimp, an inch of steel tube and some heatshrink. I'll be giving DIY 250kV connectors a miss.
[23:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:15] <exec> 08└─There's a thriving used Tesla market - you can look at https://ev-cpo.com [ev-cpo.com] for Tesla Certified Pre-Owned, or https://onlyusedtesla.com [onlyusedtesla.com] for private sales. They're not dirt cheap, because as you posited, the value of the battery _and_ the drive train component...
[23:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:17] <exec> 08└─BTW, the amazingly useful site which logs your Tesla travels is http://www.teslafi.com [teslafi.com]
[23:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Air Demos Real World Electric Range of 490 Miles - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:19] <exec> 08└─I'm in Pennsylvania, and you pay your local power company a transmission fee per kwh but you can buy the electrical power you use from any supplier in the state. I don't know if it actually makes a difference in practice, but I pay a ~15% premium to buy 100% wind power. It's possible I'm stupid and...
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