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[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:54] <exec> 08└─The UK will have no problem paying for this, as Boris Johnston said they lose £300 million per day to the EU. He wouldn't lie, would he?
[00:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:55] <exec> 08└─In a pinch, Ireland will offer them a good deal on a little chunk of problematic land that is messing up the Great Brexit Plan, using those billions they say they don't want from Apple. What's the inflation-adjusted rate of the Louisiana or Alaska purchases ?
[00:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:57] <exec> 08└─No' the claim was 350 million a week https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─"Alright! I'm all ready!" the man said jubilantly. After he said this, he placed it on his target, and slowly pressed forward. The man's fat member fully entered the little boy's rectum, inducing pain and tears. This man, Alfredson, widened his eyes in shock. Alfredson exclaimed, "This is too good!"...
[00:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─Yup! That is why I buy from them as much as possible and I'm sure it is the same for many users. That mentality probably overlaps the privacy oriented pretty heavily.
[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:15] <exec> 08└─I've an account there but honestly it has been so long since I logged in I can't even remember what the UI looked like. I am sure I did not give them much info, I am a paranoid SoB. Just because you're paranoid doesn't me they are NOT after you...
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─We're in the last stage of God's plan to save us
[00:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:09] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to good parenting?
[00:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:15] <exec> 08└─If and when Amazon can be shown to be abusing anyone's privacy, that's the time to bring out the pitchforks and torches. Until then, no.
[00:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:41] <exec> 08└─It's always a bug, isn't it. Even the 100th time - "Ooops. Our bad. It's a bug."
[00:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Investors Wary of Alphabet/Google's Billions in Capital Expenditures - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─Well, let's look at the other side of that coin. In the heady days after Google's IPO, they invested in all sorts of things. Slashdot of the time was chock full of speculation on which industry Google was going to revolutionize next. Since, we've seen most of Google's exotic projects fail and a larg...
[00:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:56] <exec> 08└─If you haven't, you've got no ground to stand on criticizing the content. I have, thus I can criticize and know what the fuck I'm talking about.
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you! Wow, haven't had a good reason to use that since 2nd grade.
[00:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:00] <exec> 08└─My bias about temperature affecting coral does not lean the way you think. I in fact very strongly suspect it does. That is irrelevant to whether a claim has been supported or not though.
[00:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:02] <exec> 08└─Oh I have some left. Just not many that can be replaced by certainty. I actively check things like that as I go through life.
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:04] <exec> 08└─Damn you! I'd been waiting for a good opportunity to use that one for ages.
[00:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:06] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia requires that claims be cited. Are you really arguing for a lower standard than Wikipedia uses for science?
[00:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:08] <exec> 08└─That they did not address the veracity of that claim at all was the problem. If that is to the best of their ability, they have zero business covering science.
[00:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:10] <exec> 08└─I know it's so unfair that I use reason and superior intellect on you. But how are you going to learn otherwise? Wow, haven't had a good reason to use that since 2nd grade.
[00:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:12] <exec> 08└─You simply do not get to make claims
[00:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:15] <exec> 08└─The Greeks are famous for two things: philosophy and butt sex. The more you type, the more convinced I am that you should stick to butt sex.
[00:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:17] <exec> 08└─As an Australian, let me reassure each and every one of you that our state & federal governments are doing absolutely everything they can to avoid doing anything about the issues the BGR is facing.
[00:12:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think I buy the idea that some magic AI will suddenly 'solve' the problem of guaranteeing a clean first strike. How will it do so? Magically determine the location of 100% of enemy assets? But, the enemy also has magic AI, can't they then use it to better hide their assets? RAND seems to be...
[00:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:31] <exec> 08└─The last line of the third paragraph handles that This undermines strategic stability because even if the state possessing these capabilities has no intention of using them, the adversary cannot be sure of that.
[00:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:44] <exec> 08└─then basically anyone can build a fusion bomb. If this actually happens in our reality, just imagine the implications: instead of some random nutcase shooting up a Waffle House or mowing down some women with a van, we'll have random nutcases setting off bombs that destroy entire cities.
[00:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: Patent Reviews Are Constitutional - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:42] <exec> 08└─That would still leave trademarks and copyright. therefore there is no such thing as intellectual property Clearly not a logical conclusion. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal, in Defeat for Springer - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Unlike the extortion racket, AdBlocker is providing an actual service that actual people want (and that is legal to provide) that might also negatively impact a website. The wise guys arranging for shops to have 'accidents' benefits nobody but themselves.
[00:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola Beats Estimates With Diet Coke Rebranding; Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Obesity - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─It's generally cheaper than milk, and has a longer shelf life. But milk works quite well, if you don't heat it too much. I don't think you'd use it in quantities sufficient to make the cost a deciding factor. It comes in a large range of prices depending on the quantity you buy. (Or at least it did...
[00:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Form Of DNA Discovered Inside Living Human Cells - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:10] <exec> 08└─Professor Christ, You have an unusual surname. That is all.
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[01:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:00] <exec> 08└─Why not just ask Uncle Sam for some sweet sweet GPS? No need to reinvent the wheel again and again.
[01:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) [wikipedia.org] One of the aims of Galileo is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European nations do not have to rely on the Russian GLONASS, Chinese BeiDou or US GPS systems, which could be disabled or degraded...
[01:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:03] <exec> 08└─Yes but considering how tight those nations are with eachother, war between them seem somewhat unlikely.
[01:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:05] <exec> 08└─They already have access to the US GPS system, but as part of the agreement the US government/military may at their discretion take full usage of the US GPS system. This was as I recall an issue in the Iraq war. Mercedes Benz was unhappy over the fact that their in car navigation system was non func...
[01:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:08] <exec> 08└─France is taking its' toys and going home...
[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:10] <exec> 08└─And Spain, Germany, etc etc... https://en.wikipedia.org(satellite_navigation) [wikipedia.org]
[01:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─Bezos and some NSA spook were in a bar, both a little buzzed. NSA Spook: "I wish we had the men and resources to just bug everyone and sift out the bad guys, but alas. So the terrorists win." Bezos: "Hold my beer a sec, you just gave me an idea. [furious scribbling ensues for a few minutes...] Behol...
[01:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:52] <exec> 08└─Okay, so at least your perspective is consistent. That's different from a lot of people who seem to suddenly be worried about things like the Echo, when they've basically had surveillance devices in their houses for years.
[01:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investors Wary of Alphabet/Google's Billions in Capital Expenditures - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:06] <exec> 08└─Wall Street's obsession with expenditures borders between irrational paranoia and self-abuse. It's realistic in modern Wall Street to have a company report that they made the biggest profit of any company in history but, because their capital expenditures increased by 2%, have their stock drop 5%. I...
[01:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:19] <exec> 08└─Alas, TMB manages nothing but a Runaway retort! What sad times and poor education we have here on the SoylentNews!
[01:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:21] <exec> 08└─I know it's so unfair that I use reason and superior intellect on you.
[01:12:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 2022 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:56] <exec> 08└─No, it's not doom. Sure, you might have some nasty resource wars, and you'll probably have giant famines with millions or even billions dead, but think about this: what happens if 6 billion people died tomorrow? We'd still have over 1.5 billion people. That's not extinction, it's just a massive shif...
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:07] <exec> 08└─A relatively few dedicated people can just pick up a fusion bomb from the US military. While not so simple, it is way easier than to make one. True, criminals did not do it, yet, but probably just because they see no practical value. If they find said value, they will arm themselves in no time. P.S....
[01:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck that, I just want to chill my recreation nukes.
[01:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 2736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:10] <exec> 08└─Thus my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity." Elaborated on here: https://www.pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net] "Military robots li...
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:12] <exec> 08└─Let's not concentrate on an imminent invasion. Imminent economical catastrophe, such as credit cut in times of a crisis, is strong enough stimulus to go all out nuclear. Back to the point, there is a very good thousand pages book written about basic impossibility of an all out war in modern society...
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are As Fit As Endurance Athletes - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─The Victorian era in particular became notorious for the conditions under which children were employed. Children as young as four were employed in production factories and mines working long hours in dangerous, often fatal, working conditions. In coal mines, children would crawl through tunnels too...
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[02:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:10] <exec> 08└─How about eLoran? Similar accuracy, no expensive satellites to fail or be destroyed by enemies, ... http://gpsworld.com [gpsworld.com]
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if my claim was misinformed, or Mr. Johnston's just made up? Never mind. At least we can be sure he's not a self-interested liar.
[02:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:13] <exec> 08└─Of *course* it was "made up" Very little of what Boris says is in any way linked to "truth", excepting where Brexit (and May) supporters believe what he says to be the truth (and expect anyone to *disprove* things). Alas, there are quite a few similarities with politics in several countries, at the...
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:16] <exec> 08└─The UK may still have enough allies or colonies around the world to make this viable - put up towers. The prime user would be the Navy who travel globally. A problem would be the rather vast expanse of the Pacific - no place for towers. Vancouver, Auckland and.. er yes, not quite enough to triangula...
[02:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─doesn't mean you won't wish you had been when they pile up the privacy invading evidence against you because you weren't paranoid enough when it counted. The thing about privacy, like free will, is that once you've given it up, it is almost impossible to claw it back, short of an act of god or a com...
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? Guess asshat missed the sense of humour line at the babby mall.
[02:10:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:18] <exec> 08└─About as despicable as cartoon characters selling cigarettes to kids. Wrap dystopia in pretty colors so kids will like it!
[02:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:02] <exec> 08└─Cell? That is not always listening and you can change the OS. Can you say the same for this Amazon device? No? Then please proceed shilling.
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:19] <exec> 08└─He would have to remember that the secret arming code is 00000000 I know, I know, it was officially changed. Who wants to be that it's now 11111111 ? (missile shape, can't forget, easy to type under stress)
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[03:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:54] <exec> 08└─They delete your access They delete your data They delete you [wikipedia.org]
[03:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:55] <exec> 08└─That's just what I need is for a friend of the GF to see a zombie profile of me on a dating site... It would be like getting into the cash cab and having the wife see you with the mistress on your way to a hotel.
[03:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:03] <exec> 08└─do we end up with coral that doesn't bleach, or coral that fights back against crown of thorns starfish [abc.net.au], or does it just cope with warmer, more saline water?
[03:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:05] <exec> 08└─2021 - the improved coral project dumps their first spores in the ocean. 2034 - shipping lanes must be cleared by icebreakers. 2035 - all whales die. 3036 - fast growing coral has displaced so much water that sea levels rise 5 meters, dooming ocean side cities. 3040 - the mermaid project begins.
[03:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:07] <exec> 08└─How about coral that's able to get interested more than twice a year, for a start?
[03:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:28] <exec> 08└─The historical division is just stupid. They all speak English now, and normal people are allowed to be whatever religion they prefer. The countries are adjacent. They belong together.
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:46] <exec> 08└─I was a DBA for a Teradata system installed at a large financial institution, and they participated in a national data sharing program. I'd regularly see the kind of information they could aggregate on individuals from all the participant entities and it scared me. The last thing I did before leavin...
[03:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FCC Loses a Fierce Consumer Advocate as Mignon Clyburn Resigns - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:16] <exec> 08└─The US set up is to have two state-sanctioned parties, because two is better than one, and those dirty commies only had one party, and we're better than dirty commies, so two parties. The people who really run the place don't want to have to keep track of more though, so three is too many.
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The “Unpatchable” Exploit That Makes Every Current Nintendo Switch Hackable [Updated] - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:41] <exec> 08└─"The 911's manual says to do it every time you fuel up." My 911 does an electronic self check everytime I turn it on, when the key is first turned to accessory before turning the engine on; you can wait for it to complete, or you can just turn the key. This check is most accurate once the car is war...
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[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:55] <exec> 08└─"A limited number" means less than infinity. Just how big was that database to begin with? Pretty sure it could have affected everyone and that would still be "a limited number."
[04:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:56] <exec> 08└─I dunno, they might have created an algorithm to create profiles for each child of anyone who used their service.
[04:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:59] <exec> 08└─Accept it. Embrace it.
[04:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:01] <exec> 08└─It's not just that having profiles activated that aren't live is a way of boosting their numbers to pretend like it's a better deal than it really is. Online dating tends to suck. The women tend to be more or less hookers just looking for some guy with the money and resources they want and are more...
[04:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:03] <exec> 08└─No, you've got it all wrong. You delete your account. They delete your access. No data is deleted. Your data is continually sold on for advertising, soliciting, research or marketing purposes. It is just that sometimes accidentally the sheets are thrown back showing everything to everyone - just lik...
[04:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:05] <exec> 08└─Match has done this sort of crap before-- keep old profiles to boost their numbers, and other dirty tricks to drag things out and collect more money. Like, sending teaser messages just as a member is leaving. Naturally they have to re-up to read the message. Was it an accident like Janet Jackson's "...
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:16] <exec> 08└─I think we end up with all kinds of coral variants, including some we didn't expect. Coral that grows in places it didn't used to is almost a given.
[04:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─The only way that coral displaces seawater is if it manages to capture additional mass from the land or air and trap it in the oceans, which seems unlikely. However, floating coral - particularly floating coral that starts by attaching itself to plastic garbage, then trapping gasses to remain buoyan...
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─"Crabs walk sideways, lobsters walk straight. (looks down at crotch) Oh no! I've got lobsters!" (Thanks to Mikey Robins [mikeyrobins.com]) Now, potentially, coral infestation as an STI..
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─Egg production isn't cheap. Might not be affordable for an organism that is having difficulty surviving day to day.
[04:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:24] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter, you don't want to release the genetically modified coral into the wild anyway. At least, not immediately, not hastily by any means. No, you missed the point. A strain that could be more easily induced to reproduce would allow them a more reliable and less expensive supply of zygotes,...
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:46] <exec> 08└─A problem would be the rather vast expanse of the Pacific - no place for towers.
[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─The big problem with loran is that it is not not as accurate as GPS or any other sat nav signal. I personally have found GPS (on boats) to be accurate within 50 meters. Maybe not enough for ICBMs, but plenty for boats (naval) or air navigation.
[04:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbut CONTEXT! You're obviously READING IT OUT OF CONTEXT YOU BLASPHEMING HELLBOUND ATHEIST HEATHEN!!!111eleventyone
[04:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:34] <exec> 08└─Question for you, smart guy: what does an omniscient, omnipotent, time-transcending, eternal, *absolutely-sovereign* God need with a "plan?" And why is he "saving" us from what amounts to his own temper tantrum he's throwing over his own freely-created creations doing what he knew without fail they...
[04:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:36] <exec> 08└─Hmm, at roughly the same density as Jupiter I would assume it would have to be mostly hydrogen as well. Presumably "hot" is one of the defining features, so that a much wider range of materials can remain gaseous, even in the visible upper atmosphere. Or, just to make things more fun, maybe the plan...
[04:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you're making such a big deal about all that - it's obvious if you just stop to give it a moment's consideration: God moves in mysterious ways. :-D
[04:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:41] <exec> 08└─Amazon Echo devices older than 2017 can be physically hacked and turned into a 'wiretap.' [csoonline.com] The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo [gizmodo.com]
[04:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:43] <exec> 08└─"The Amazon Echo does include a physical mute button" according to a security researcher [csoonline.com] (N.B., 2017 story).
[04:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:11] <exec> 08└─Well the whole thing was a joke, linguistic virus? Cmon bud
[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:13] <exec> 08└─Reason and superior intellect? You realize I had to resort to 2nd grade tactics so you'd understand what I was getting at right?
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[05:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:56] <exec> 08└─Hell of a penalty for selling convenience discs that his customers could have downloaded and burnt themselves from Microsoft's own website. I've burnt a stack of them myself - I guess I'll have to remember never to leave them with my clients after I've reinstalled their legitimately licensed copy of...
[05:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:12] <exec> 08└─wonder how many of the "old" profiles got messages from potentials? How many of *those* were an improvement on the owner's current partner? Some may be happy this happened!
[05:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Used to Genetically Edit Coral - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:27] <exec> 08└─Probably cope with warmer water - not kicking out the algae it depends on for survival would be a good start.
[05:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:52] <exec> 08└─The article I linked to says eLoran is accurate within 20 meters, approaching a harbor. I don't have the time right now to research the details, but my general point is that a ground-based system could be much less expensive, and some of the savings could be put into improving the technology, placin...
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─They would be, if they could only resolve a few minor disputes starting in about 1426 when someone stole an orange from someone else. As I understand it, they're working hard on solving that dispute then they'll move onto the next one and the next one.
[05:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:55] <exec> 08└─The prime user would be the Navy who travel globally.
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:57] <exec> 08└─Look, no-one believes in Boris's numbers. They just want to Make Britain Great Again and whatever bullshit sounds good in any given context is what gets said. Economy? Better off out of the EU. Trade? Better off out. Satellites? Better of out. Worker rights? Better of out. Etc. etc. etc. Evidence is...
[05:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:59] <exec> 08└─Further, they've already got military grade US GPS equipment installed, and have for long before Gallelo was even designed.
[05:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:48] <exec> 08└─- Why did WASP-104b cross the galaxy? - To get to the middle of the road.
[05:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:49] <exec> 08└─How can you tell when you're in WASP-104b's stellar neighborhood? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) The homes are very large and the lawns are well-cared for.
[05:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:51] <exec> 08└─What word starts with “N” and ends with “R” that you never want to call WASP-104b? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Neighbor.
[05:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:53] <exec> 08└─How do you tell WASP-104b at his wedding? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) He's the one in the black tuxedo, standing next to the bride.
[05:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investors Wary of Alphabet/Google's Billions in Capital Expenditures - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:12] <exec> 08└─Could companies be more concerned right now with making hay obtaining low interest debt financing, rather than caring what the secondary markets are doing with shares they had long ago sold for cash?
[05:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are As Fit As Endurance Athletes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:17] <exec> 08└─Kids can run around all day outside but the second you ask them to take the trash outside or load the dishwasher, all of a sudden they can't move for shit.
[05:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FCC Loses a Fierce Consumer Advocate as Mignon Clyburn Resigns - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:05] <exec> 08└─You're thinking too deeply. The next member will be the guy who once fixed Donald Trump's cable.
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[15:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:51] <exec> 08└─What does the Insurance company think about people handing out "unlock" access to their vehicle, in case something in the car breaks or goes missing or etc ? Delivery to inside your car is in that regard just as stupid as delivery to your fridge or your home or whatever other place you are not at bu...
[15:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:52] <exec> 08└─Are they trying to normalize the idea of superbigco having access to all your physical spaces, the same way they did to electronic data? Wow, that would be a scary world.
[15:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:54] <exec> 08└─Clearly the delivery people were having too much trouble stealing people's houses. So Amazon, being the egalitarian sorts they are, are encouraging customers to allow them to unlock something more portable.
[15:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:56] <exec> 08└─Do you want dead hookers in your trunk? Because this is how you get dead hookers in your trunk.
[15:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:59] <exec> 08└─And that should be pretty easy given that Amazon delivery drivers drive in unmarked white wearing an Amazon shirts for ID.
[15:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:17] <exec> 08└─The failing @nytimes [twitter.com], @NBCNews [twitter.com], @ABC [twitter.com], @CBS [twitter.com], @CNN [twitter.com] is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People. They are a disgrace to good reporting. Very sad what they did to Peter Madsen. And maybe I can talk to the King of Denmark a...
[15:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:18] <exec> 08└─They demolished Fred and Rose West's house.
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:27] <exec> 08└─Smithsonian Institution has hundreds of thousands of specimens, presumably neatly cataloged, ready for sequencing. They are going to want to sequence these eventually. It's possible that the approach you are talking about will get used in this project, but mainly to grab new sequences of eukaryotic...
[15:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:00] <exec> 08└─no, I'm not clueless. "total area planted" has no direct connection to "total carbon sequestered". see neighbouring posts regarding the fact that older trees eat more carbon. if you burn 1km^2 of forest this year, and plant 1km^2 of forest this year, that means you need to keep doing the same thing...
[15:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:01] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, you stop population growth in 2nd and 3rd world countries?
[15:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:04] <exec> 08└─Pine plantations are a big thing around Arkansas. Many of them belong to Weyerhauser. Generally, the first cut is around 8 to 12 years. All the stunted trees are selectively cut, and chipped for paper, to make more room for their healthier siblings. Around 16 years, second cut to make more room for...
[15:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:06] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, you stop population growth in 2nd and 3rd world countries? There's no easy answer.
[15:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:08] <exec> 08└─Typical dude with his teat obsession.
[15:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:10] <exec> 08└─Wood is a crappy fuel: + For the same heating value, wood takes up a lot more space than, for example, coal. So it takes more trucks/trains to move it around. And much more space to store on-site between deliveries. + It has to be bulk transported any distance (no possibility of efficient pipelines)...
[15:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:12] <exec> 08└─they are harvesting entire forests and then maybe plant others (without strong guarantees that it actually happens).
[15:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:15] <exec> 08└─dropping free food for the rats, wasps, and/or the stray animals for much of the summer and autumn.
[15:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:17] <exec> 08└─The carbon released when trees are cut down and burned is taken up again when new trees grow in their place, limiting its impact on climate.
[15:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:19] <exec> 08└─Wood is a crappy fuel...no possibility of efficient pipelines
[15:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:41] <exec> 08└─Jury nullification is way too advanced a concept for the woefully uneducated masses. It's a way too powerful concept for the cows to countenance. Every two years I bug everybody I know who doesn't vote. They're all convinced that there's some tally somewhere of abstaining votes and that if that tall...
[15:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:42] <exec> 08└─Nope, do that all the time - copyright isn't an issue there. Okay... maybe it is technically, since I do hand out convenience discs of Free software that doesn't include the source code as required by the GPL*, but I've not heard of anyone suing Free software advocates for not fulfilling the letter...
[15:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:44] <exec> 08└─I also fail to see anything wrong with what he was doing - but I do see something illegal. He was making and distributing copies of copyrighted software without a license. It doesn't matter that the software was useless without also having a usage license - copyright still applies. Think of it this...
[15:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:47] <exec> 08└─Legally it doesn't matter that the software is available free from the supplier - It's still copyrighted, the entire point of which is that nobody else can distribute copies without a distribution license.
[15:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:49] <exec> 08└─I said it would be great if The Mighty Buzzard became Editor. Because he can tell when stories are Fake News. Like the story about coral "bleaching." Sounds like something a pornstar does, it's not.
[15:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:51] <exec> 08└─Well, we know that you know all about porn stars, right?
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─Nice to see beta male cucks and feminists still get mod points here. Hate to rock the boat by calling women out for misbehavior. Couldn't have that.
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─This is a quote (somewhat ellipsized) from someone identified in TFA only as "A spokeswoman for Britain’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy": "The UK's preference is to remain in Galileo [even though we voted to get out of the EU, Galileo and all. If] UK industry cannot compe...
[15:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─Not that simple. Basically, this is the Irish Border Problem: We HAVE to have Brexit because the government has a democratic mandate to deliver the decision that the electorate regrets. The small group of ideological Brexiterrorists pulling Theresa May's strings won't accept anything less than full...
[15:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, the "search you by your email" is enabled by default. Someone could send a bunch of requests to GOG with a list of emails they have from wherever and link your email to you GOG account (if you used the same one). It doesn't show your email on the profile page though.
[15:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:02] <exec> 08└─I do know that Jesus's Disciples thought they were going to live to see his return. I have read the Book of Revelation and in fact most of the Bible. Can't say for sure whether I've ever actually made it through the Begats, though. The book of Revelation is also full of imagery and includes a strong...
[15:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:04] <exec> 08└─People who are happy for the sorrow of others aren't being Christian. The point is that I can't save myself. It's a gift of God that we have to accept.
[15:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:06] <exec> 08└─God's plan was for us to live in a perfect world. There is no freedom, if there is no freedom of choice. God gave us the ability to choose for ourselves. Love forced isn't Love. God created Adam, Eve, and Lucifer. You have the ability to choose your own path and do what you will, because God believe...
[15:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:08] <exec> 08└─There's banter back and forth between God and Job in the book of Job. In that dialogue God tells Job that He is smarter and knows more than Job. So, for us, God does move in mysterious ways at times.
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: More Expensive, Colorful Spy Puck - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─Time alone, with nature, kept me somewhere close to sane. Being trapped in a house with half a dozen people could drive me homicidally batshit crazy. When the pressure built up, I'd get out, and pass the time alone. After a few hours, I was almost fit to be in human company again. Maybe that's part...
[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investors Wary of Alphabet/Google's Billions in Capital Expenditures - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─They got a big infusion of repurposed off-shore money and used it to make a pile of infrastructure investments on-shore. Government: "You can bring this money back at a low tax bracket" Google: "Cool, I bring it back. Done." Google: "I've got all this liquid US-cash sitting around... Time to buy som...
[15:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 765 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─The problem with a disagree mod is in four lines I somehow made six claims, all of which appear correct, maybe one is wrong, but surely the other five stand. Given that "nothing changed with human nature in the last decade or two" "Aus scuba diving" "small scale" "biomass relying on coral is gonna d...
[15:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 1816 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:52] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I happened to work at James Cook University, one of the world leaders in tropical marine science (and most probably the home of the scientists mentioned in this story). I've spoken at length to academics about exactly this topic. Coral is a symbiotic organism consisting of a coral po...
[15:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 3991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:50] <exec> 08└─These things don't really make sense. >Military robots like drones are ironic because they are created essentially to force humans to work like robots in an industrialized social order. Why not just create industrial robots to do the work instead? Huh? Military robots are used to avoid humans dying...
[15:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:51] <exec> 08└─We are talking about an AI deciding about nuclear war, not a bout ambitious, egotistic, militaristic, absolutist rulers dreaming of pinning down other rulers and taking out their toys. WWI was caused by irrational thinking and gambling, and that can always happen when reason has a back seat and has...
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[16:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:41] <exec> 08└─>Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s. WTF does this have to do with a train developed by China...
[16:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:01] <exec> 08└─and every person with access to the unlocking system is completely honest, and will also ensure your car is locked and undamaged once the package has been delivered. So *nothing* could *possibly* go wrong.
[16:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─why would someone want something delivered to their car? I still don't really get it. Why not have it delivered to your home?
[16:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─Just hypothetically, what is proper justice for a man, any man, who takes a woman on a boat trip and murders her and disposes of her body at sea, returning alone? Execution? Life in prison? Severe anxiety to disbelieve all evidence of a crime, particularly when it is so egregious and clear, could be...
[16:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:25] <exec> 08└─I never said he didn't do it. They did the Due Process -- Danish style. But when reporters follow somebody around all the time, it's very hard. That's a very hard life, believe me. And Peter thought crime was the answer. It wasn't the answer. Because he got caught. "Smart" guy, he built a submarine,...
[16:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:17] <exec> 08└─That link is nothing more than 'food for thought'. Basically, they are saying that they are unwilling to make the effort, because they can only see down sides.
[16:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:19] <exec> 08└─Good catch. Historically this was common -- my grandfather lived in small town Maine, on a river, with a paper mill (100+ years ago). Every spring the logs that were cut up-river were floated down-river. This was industrial scale, the river was nearly solid with floating logs for weeks. Once the log...
[16:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:21] <exec> 08└─So.. You admit you have no clue and as are just guessing?
[16:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:23] <exec> 08└─Stop all those doctors working so hard to keep those shithole residents healthy, long enough to breed.
[16:05:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:33] <exec> 08└─punishment seems way out of proportion to the crime
[16:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:52] <exec> 08└─What TFA does not mention (that other articles do) is that he was distributing copies of WINDOWS XP. This is important as you can not buy or download Windows XP from Microsoft. There seem to be mixed results determining if you can even activate it any more. Many otherwise perfectly usable PCs requir...
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:54] <exec> 08└─The real reason he's going to jail. He was planning to sell them. The software wasn't freely distributable software. Arstechnica: "In 2011, the electronics recycling guru obtained a Dell-authorized Windows recovery disc from a business colleague, Robert Wolff, for $5. Lundgren thought that he could...
[16:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:19] <exec> 08└─Any maker spaces near you? That might be a good place to hang out and share your expertise. I know you aren't looking for the kids, but maybe a single parent will be transporting the kid...
[16:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─They also sent out an email about their updated privacy policy for GDPR compliance today. At the bottom was an email address for questions about their privacy policy: privacy@gog.com I suggest that everyone who is unhappy with this development email them.
[16:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:10] <exec> 08└─I would hesitate to call Catholics bible-believing Christians. Though, indeed the prevailing Scientific thought at that time was that the Earth was Flat. Isaiah 40:22 "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens...
[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: Patent Reviews Are Constitutional - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:34] <exec> 08└─Eh, not quite. The privilege granted by the state is not "driving," it's "driving on public roads." There is a difference. You have every right to drive your own car on your own road, with no license, drunk as a skunk and with busted turn signals if you want.
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[17:03:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 672 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:47] <exec> 08└─>Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s. WTF does this have to do with a train developed by China...
[17:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:48] <exec> 08└─That last sentence appears to complain about broken English, while not actually using English.
[17:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:50] <exec> 08└─Actually that last sentence is fine. It has the same number of commas as it does hyphens. That is a balanced sentence. What more could you ask for?
[17:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:13] <exec> 08└─To me, this is a problem begging for a REAL solution, such large dedicated secure delivery boxes built directly in to houses and apartments. Look back in time a few decades, and it was not really all that common for someone to have large items shipped to them. People would instead drive a few hours...
[17:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:14] <exec> 08└─Jeff, get your own delivery vehicles.
[17:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:17] <exec> 08└─How do we get live hookers in our trunks? That is the question.
[17:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:19] <exec> 08└─The worstest thing that could happen is the Judi Bari treatment.
[17:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:41] <exec> 08└─would you insist in your (share of) property if that property was instrumental in committing an atrocious murder?
[17:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:50] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that a sensible approach in such a large scale project would be to identify subgroups of particular interest. My first candidate would be enteral bacteria. They keep turning up as possible contributors to many ailments but we don't seem to know much about most of them. This doesn't di...
[17:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:39] <exec> 08└─Yet, mankind never numbered even half a billion, until recent history. I guess some people had thirty kids, and buried most of them in infancy, some more in early childhood, and some more managed to get themselves killed off in adolescence. What happened in the 1800's to change all of that? Medical...
[17:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:40] <exec> 08└─Birth control is also a hard sell in some parts of the world. The US government subsidized forced sterilization of women who sought any kind of medical treatment in much of Africa. She comes to the clinic to have an infected cut on her arm treated, and she goes home sterile. Even the least educated...
[17:06:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:18] <exec> 08└─That's just what I need is for a friend of the GF to see a zombie profile of me on a dating site... It would be like getting into the cash cab and having the wife see you with the mistress on your way to a hotel.
[17:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:24] <exec> 08└─> The risk that the USA would have to go to war against the USA would be enough to stop any sane administration I am glad that you put the word "sane" in there, since my first reflex was to ask myself if you had been paying attention recently.
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:26] <exec> 08└─> accurate within 50 meters. Maybe not enough for ICBMs Actually, ICBMs have the lowest precision requirement of pretty much any weapon ever designed, except maybe those used for OTH bombardment of Paris and London during WWI and WWII.
[17:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─The Irish / EU and sane people everywhere won't accept a hard border between Northern Ireland and South. The DUP (to whom May is beholden, despite having bribed them with a billion quid of our money) won't accept a hard border down the Irish Sea.
[17:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:32] <exec> 08└─Once again calling for a new mod for "fairy-tale-based argument". Since that's a bit long, how about the "-1 Trumping" ?
[17:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:33] <exec> 08└─I was originally conscientiously pointing out that your statement didn't apply to Christians. You don't want to talk about religion. That's just fine. Then stop deriding the people who believe in it. All manner of inappropriate tags can be placed on quite a few topics. In reality the entire string o...
[17:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:35] <exec> 08└─> pointing out that your statement didn't apply to Christians Tell that to a lot of "Christians" who have a very different opinion than you. I've talked to enough Evangelists to respectfully disagree. But hey, the Universe IS full of wonderful things.
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─and i don't even eat coral reef so what's the big deal?
[17:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: Patent Reviews Are Constitutional - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─"Driving is NOT a right. It is a privilege and as such can and is granted by the state through a license." we need a purge of people like you. start with the slugs in all the state capitals.
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[18:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why those two numbers would have to match, but it looks grammatically correct to me, although it is a long sentence.
[18:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:49] <exec> 08└─Anytime I see a phrase like that my B.S. detectors instantly get set to MAXIMUM. The article's author seems to think that this is some sort of free power source, but (barring changes to the laws of thermodynamics) at best it could be some sort of minimalist regenerative braking system. Makes me wond...
[18:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:51] <exec> 08└─Additionally: > The aerotrain does not run on traditional fuel but can be powered by solar energy and wind power with pneumatic motors. I need a new BS detector. I keep getting the extra-range ones, but the last couple years have really made my supplier rich. Also, look at the picture in TFA. Narrow...
[18:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:53] <exec> 08└─The whole train seems like a wind tunnel exercise to me, done by people with no clue about trains. "Flying above the rails" it says in TFA. Made out of magnesium. Righto. That stuff is cheap, yup. Then there is the whole tacking on of totally unrelated story with no links on the end of TFS. Whats up...
[18:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, in some markets (e.g. the one I worked in for most of my career) recruiters have enough of a lock on enough firms that many employers are actually contractually bound to only hire via a particular recruiting company. In that kind of market, refusing to work with recruiters can almost...
[18:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:58] <exec> 08└─What kind of markets have such exclusivity contracts? That sounds insane. It seems pretty stupid for a corporation to agree to paying some huge portion of an engineer's salary to a recruiter when they can just hire an HR person and do it themselves. And companies using recruiters still have to have...
[18:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Bids £22bn for Sky - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:05] <exec> 08└─I am glad that these giants are making such great investments, which will undoubtedly result in more choices, lower prices, and higher quality programming. /poker face
[18:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:26] <exec> 08└─nd every person with access to the mailbox is completely honest, and will also ensure that your mailbox is undamaged and none of the mail is stolen once the merchandise has been delivered.
[18:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:27] <exec> 08└─You know that Amazon already solved this problem right? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:30] <exec> 08└─Hookers 101: hand enough money, hooker gets in your trunks, or briefs, or whatever you're wearing.
[18:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:32] <exec> 08└─and every person with access to the unlocking system is completely honest,
[18:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:34] <exec> 08└─What does the Insurance company think about people handing out "unlock" access to their vehicle,
[18:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:57] <exec> 08└─"Smart" guy, he built a submarine, right? But possibly he did something dumb!
[18:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:56] <exec> 08└─Complete and utter bullshit. Modern plumbing has saved more lives than medicine ever did. Modern plumbing is what makes disease control possible. One thing that appears to be repeated in modern civilizations: when they reach a level of maturity and wealth that children are not required to support he...
[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─India is the second most populous nation in the world - and they didn't get that way due to indoor plumbing. Your suggestion implies that if/when they stop shitting in the fields and in the streets, their population will skyrocket? On the contrary, their population rose in proportion to other nation...
[18:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─I also fail to see anything wrong with what he was doing - but I do see something illegal.
[18:06:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─No, you've got it all wrong. You delete your account. They delete your access. No data is deleted. Your data is continually sold on for advertising, soliciting, research or marketing purposes. It is just that sometimes accidentally the sheets are thrown back showing everything to everyone - just lik...
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:55] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly that they're aiming at dummies. They've generally got their minds in so much of a rut that they can't think any other way than insincerely. I've never seen an ISP contract that didn't promise connection speeds "up to" so many baud. So what they're promising that that they won't give...
[18:07:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:55] <exec> 08└─Is this a Godwin or Stalin?
[18:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GOG Debuts Profiles Feature, Users Flip Out - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:10] <exec> 08└─Is this a Godwin or Stalin? It must be one of them because it certainly doesn't reflect Poland's privacy laws which have been in effect since 1998 and are far superior to the complete lack of privacy protections in the US.
[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:55] <exec> 08└─If God exists then he's such a narcissistic asshole that he doesn't deserve our respect.
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: Patent Reviews Are Constitutional - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─Hmm, at least you're consistent in your definition. I'm pretty sure that it's not the same definition of rights used by the Constitution at any time, though, since jury trials and restrictions on government searches are considered rights there but aren't actions and so aren't rights under your defin...
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[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:39] <exec> 08└─I'd be nice if I didn't have to Google for the simple questions: - How fast can a car drive without losing contact? - How much extra maintenance does this scheme cost, to both the cars and the road? - How do they handle rain/snow/gravel/roadkill? - What voltage, and how do they keep people safe? - H...
[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─You forgot about Joe Average driver, who can just barely get through a car wash without going off the rails, trying to remain in contact with a rail while driving down a road.
[19:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:42] <exec> 08└─You are not supposed to think of that sort of thing. It is green and good for teh planet. That is all you need to know. Why do you hate the planet? :P
[19:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:45] <exec> 08└─There is an FAQ over at the website for the road project, it's even available in English (1) (I have no idea why CNN links to the Swedish speaking version, yes there is a little flag in the corner there to swap sites but still ...). It had answers for at least a couple of the questions you ask, if y...
[19:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:47] <exec> 08└─How to be Fossil Fuel Free by Sweden: 0)Indoctrinate your populous since birth not to descent until you get a generation of people afraid to rise up no matter what your goverment does 1)Set lofty goals of being Fossil Free 2)Open border and import hordes of 3rd world savages 3)Make huge back of popc...
[19:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:49] <exec> 08└─I saw the $1.2 million figure and thought, that's crazy talk. Then I looked at costs of building an Asphalt road and noted $1.2 million isn't crazy depending on where you're building. As long as they have support for the idea at least cost wise it's in the same ball park.
[19:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:10] <exec> 08└─California has a bullet train too. But it doesn't go to Silicon Valley. You'd think they'd put it in Silicon Valley, right? They put it in Central Valley. And it goes from Central Valley to Central Valley. It goes to Fresno -- great town, I have so many fans there, I did a terrific rally there. So m...
[19:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:11] <exec> 08└─Obviously the intense hatred of recruiters is misplaced, there are likely many good recruiters that bring in a higher level of candidate and HR doesn't have to sift through 2k resumes.
[19:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:44] <exec> 08└─Well I was on the fence before but now I'm sold!
[19:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:45] <exec> 08└─Have that second cup of coffee before you post.
[19:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─Several valid points. That said if companies won't ship to PO boxes why on earth would they ship (or deliver) to a car?
[19:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:11] <exec> 08└─> if you go down on luring, torturing, killing and dismembering someone on a submarine owned by others, > then your aren't going to care too much what happens with the submarine. Have you tried Uber Sub yet? They've already got all the basic pieces in place. I just worry they'll get greedy on the bl...
[19:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:13] <exec> 08└─It's likely that Mr. Madsen will likely *not* have A date with the health inspector [dailymotion.com]. I guess it's better, even for convicted killers, to live in a civilized country. Something for those of us in the US to think about.
[19:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:23] <exec> 08└─It already exists: https://hmpdacc.org [hmpdacc.org]
[19:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:24] <exec> 08└─Tackyon said "complex/eukaryotic species". That doesn't include bacteria. It would get your tapeworms, though, and possibly a few others. Some amoeba, perhaps. I didn't read the original proposal, but it makes sense to limit it to "complex/eukaryotic species", because that's an order of magnitude (o...
[19:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─Are you asserting that the people in India that don't have access to indoor plumbing have access to modern medicine?
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Way too much evidence that the best way to reduce birth rate is to increase the chance the first 2 kids will become adults.
[19:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─It's a hard sell because those people have an economic interest in having many children. That's the primary factor that needs to change. Yes, the USA has f*cked this up mightily. Not just the forced sterilizations, but also the CIA using vaccinations as cover for spying and probably other examples.
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:24] <exec> 08└─No, Ma href=https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-12/india-access-toilets-remains-huge-problem-worst-all-women-and-girls>only 70% DON'T have access to indoor plumbing.
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Damn: https://www.pri.org [pri.org]
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─reach a level of maturity and wealth that children are not required to support he adults in their old age, population growth drops off,
[19:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:31] <exec> 08└─OK. And given the correct time horizon wood actually *is* carbon neutral. I.e., when you burn it you only release as much carbon as it accumulated when growing. That specifies the correct time horizon as the lifetime of the tree plus the time between when it died and when it was burned. This is comp...
[19:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:33] <exec> 08└─So does producing, shipping, and installing solar panels and wind turbines.
[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─Go back and read my post again. I did not assert that lack of toilets was not an issue in India. Oh, WTF, it's pointless trying to correct the idiots here.
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─The trees however have a limited lifespan, and if you let them fall and rot you get more methane, which is much worse.
[19:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:36] <exec> 08└─$19 is four orders of magnitude cheaper than your habitual means, who has to be temporarily laying low.
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis: A Third of Great Barrier Reef Coral Died in Catastrophic 2016 Heat Event - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:29] <exec> 08└─Currently commercial fishing is like a group of hunters damaging a forest just to catch the wild pigs in it while discarding the chickens and other animals killed in the process (because they're only there for pigs). Then another bunch damages the forest again to catch the chickens and discards the...
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[20:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:49] <exec> 08└─back of popcorn
[20:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:50] <exec> 08└─Keep the ideas flowing Sweden and you will soon have re-invented the railway.
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:15] <exec> 08└─You don't understand - it's a perpetual motion machine. The wind friction creates electricity which charges its batteries. Wind generators make pneumatic power which powers the propellors which make it go - just think of the wind power you will get from moving at 500 kph! Surely enough to power this...
[20:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:16] <exec> 08└─When I first moved to a new city and was trying to get a job in Accounting I found that nearly everything non-government was through temp/temp-to-hire/recruiters and very little direct hire by companies. So you get a job paying 13/hr that the company is paying 30/hr for you to be there but if you we...
[20:04:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:36] <exec> 08└─Clearly the delivery people were having too much trouble stealing people's houses. So Amazon, being the egalitarian sorts they are, are encouraging customers to allow them to unlock something more portable.
[20:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:53] <exec> 08└─That depends. I drive a beat-up old rustbucket that sure as fuck doesn't have any OnStar or equivalent. For that purpose too. As I'm heading to South America in the near future, I'm entirely unmotivated to have better transportation. I think they're are maybe more of my type of vehicle, than an OnSt...
[20:05:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:05] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, was it just removing a potential theme-park attraction, to prevent ghoulish tours ("climb on board the submarine of death!")?
[20:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:20] <exec> 08└─I think it's not the first time it's happened with private citizens. Cartels have been using custom-built submarines [wikipedia.org] to smuggle drugs for a while now, so it's quite likely not the first time somebody got murdered in one. The difference is the cartels have lots and lots of money to br...
[20:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter for CIA Operative-Training Card Game - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:42] <exec> 08└─I checked it out a little bit, and I was expecting stuff like poisoning a North Korean dictator, initiating a military coup in a South American country, or some form of extraordinary rendition. Just a boring technical game to teach you CIA tricks.
[20:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:35] <exec> 08└─Coal: Biomatter -> long, long, long time -> eventually becomes coal -> burned in a short, short, short time -> only regrow after everyone is long dead and forgotten -> large net increase in CO2 released Wood: Seeds -> immediately -> become wood -> burned immediately -> regrow immediately -> approxim...
[20:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:37] <exec> 08└─I suspect you have conflated National Parks with National Forests. Forests are crop lands in the US. Managed by the Department of Agriculture. National Parks are not, and timber is never harvested there. Nor is there any grid replanting except where needed to recover from fires or blow-downs.
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:39] <exec> 08└─AC wrote : wood is only carbon neutral if you burn as much as you grow (let's say on average over a year .... and I don't think this is happening
[20:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:41] <exec> 08└─Even more, it replaces more efficient individuals with less effective ones, so that it's not quite clear if burning older trees is better than burning oil. At least not on the time horizon of the next 50-100 years.
[20:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─Just let them hate on "third world savages" who have no "personal responsibility" and just breed like rabbits. These haters can't even stomach the idea of providing support to their fellow citizens, doubly so for the people outside their tribe.
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:45] <exec> 08└─Huh, don't think I'd really wanna lock up a bunch of drunk loggers. What did they do when one wanted out??
[20:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:16] <exec> 08└─that isn't property of Microsoft... It's absolutely crazy we're drowning in perfectly functioning computer hardware just because windoze decided to get gummed up or just stop working like it inevitably will. My computer is 10 years old and does absolutely everything I need it to do. And it's been in...
[20:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK May Have to Deploy its Own Satellite Navigation System Due to Brexit - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:36] <exec> 08└─The big problem with loran is that it is not not as accurate as GPS or any other sat nav signal. I personally have found GPS (on boats) to be accurate within 50 meters. Maybe not enough for ICBMs, but plenty for boats (naval) or air navigation.
[20:09:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─Question for you, smart guy: what does an omniscient, omnipotent, time-transcending, eternal, *absolutely-sovereign* God need with a "plan?" And why is he "saving" us from what amounts to his own temper tantrum he's throwing over his own freely-created creations doing what he knew without fail they...
[20:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Thankfully, our civilization is molded more by the Greeks than the half-illiterate, murderous sheep-fucking savages who made up Middle Eastern Jewry and Christianity! Took a hell of a long time, but we're slowly climbing back out of that morass. Your God is a genocidal Bronze-Age holdover, F...
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Okay, but Donald Trump ALSO says he's smarter than us...
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─Do you even think about these things before you type them, or are you just running your finger down the Big Book of Apologetic Thought-Terminating Cliches and selecting one that looks vaguely like it fits the situation at hand, while completely ignoring what the other person is actually saying? You...
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─"4. But since He created Lucifer, isn’t God really responsible for his sin? Answer: Not at all. God created Lucifer a perfect, sinless angel. Lucifer made a devil of himself. Freedom to choose is a cornerstone principle of God’s government. God knew Lucifer would sin when He created him. If at t...
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─Ah, you mean like with the Atomic Bomb? It sure is a good thing we've come so far as to be able to nearly totally annihilate an entire city with one bomb? Or it's so much better that we are more accepting of immoral behavior? Yes, we should be accepting of the Sinner. No, we shouldn't be accepting o...
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump isn't stupid. You may very well disagree with everything he has to say, but he isn't stupid. Personally, I don't like him and disagree with quite a number of things he says. The alternative was Clinton, though. Even then, I would have preferred Clinton over Obama. The one thing Obama an...
[20:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investors Wary of Alphabet/Google's Billions in Capital Expenditures - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:23] <exec> 08└─It's about ROI: ROI declines if the amount of the investment increases without a corresponding increase in returns. Staggering investments require staggering returns, and Alphabet's ability to do that is what the Street is questioning.
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[21:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Eel-Like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:40] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/29/0235246 [soylentnews.org]
[21:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:56] <exec> 08└─> your populous > to descent > back of popcorn Murrican edumacation y'all
[21:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:58] <exec> 08└─Look what happened in Sweden today. They sentenced the ISIS terrorist, a Beer Killing Animal. No death penalty. They call it life imprisonment, it's not life. Because so many get out alive. Sad!
[21:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:00] <exec> 08└─Adult sized slot cars.
[21:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:02] <exec> 08└─That's what Joe Average's autopilot is for. Maybe they can implement something relatively simple like positive train control [up.com] except, you know, real?
[21:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:05] <exec> 08└─I believe at this point, the roads in the United States cost more than the normal occupied houses. If you throw the trophy properties and mostly empty mansions into the mix it might tip a little in favor of real-estate, but "your share" of the roads you take from home to work, shopping and vacation...
[21:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 km Electrified Roadway Opens in Sweden - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:07] <exec> 08└─Because CNN has to be the fount of all knowledge and opinion - if they made it easier for people to do their own research they'd be losing their control of the message, where's their incentive to do that? Do you have and normally use an alternative news source that is more helpful then CNN? Maybe, b...
[21:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA's Gaia Mission Releases Data for 1.7 Billion Milky Way Stars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:14] <exec> 08└─I've been working on trying to understand the Milky Way and the formation of the Milky Way for a large fraction of my scientific career
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:34] <exec> 08└─Russia, China and North Korea happen to be the places with the largest reserves of magnesium. Moo! ~Anonymous Cow Herd
[21:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how boring. Let me know when you've got a bus with whiskers and a tail [google.com].
[21:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:39] <exec> 08└─In America we don't have to talk to the police. Because we have the Fifth Amendment. Very special, it's part of what makes America great!
[21:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:40] <exec> 08└─would you live in a house where torture and a brutal murder have been committed?
[21:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:52] <exec> 08└─16S rRNA sequencing was performed to characterize the complexity of microbial communities
[21:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Man Loses Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:33] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that copyright still attaches to a work even if offered to a customer at no cost. However, I'm pretty sure that unless the work is registered with the copyright office that one has to prove actual damages or lost profits for the infringement to be actionable. Registration notwithsta...
[21:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─Atomic bombs ain't got nuttin' on the Great Flood, or that whole Apocalypse thing. Bzzzzt. Try again. Or don't; you're starting to make me embarrassed *for* you if this puerile horseshit is all you can muster.
[21:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─I notice that at no time in that extended exercise in al-dente copypasta-boiling did you ever even attempt to engage with what was actually being said to you. Which, I find, is typical for apologists. You're wasting space and electrons.
[21:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:10] <exec> 08└─The bible isn't based on Zoroastrian myths...
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─Al-dente copy-pasta is good copy-pasta. Both were more or less direct replies to what you were asking about. You don't have to accept the argument I put forth. Do you not believe in Free Will?
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[22:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:41] <exec> 08└─Like many really old people Mr. Trump will have no clue about any of this, and I am sure never listens to advice.
[22:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:42] <exec> 08└─Well, for this president, I have to question why the concern? He's going to tell everyone everything on Twitter anyway...
[22:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:44] <exec> 08└─Careful there! He's not old enough to be my father! Us "really old" people have contributed quite a bit to today's tech. And the really, really old, like dead old, were there before us... Now, my mother on the other hand... You can say that about her, heh!
[22:03:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Jared is doing a fantastic job looking after the President's cyber.
[22:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:49] <exec> 08└─Information wants to be free Dis-information also wants to be free At best, there is a non-zero chance *someone* could interefere with Mr Trump's tweets. Does this give anyone plausible deniability for any of the tweets? If he is arranging his own hookers and blow on his own phone, then gets caught,...
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:51] <exec> 08└─Why should this fool be any different? Just being president does make you shit. Ask Carter. Ask Bush (43).
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:53] <exec> 08└─Hmm.... Not sure how ironic you're trying to be. But I don't care quite as much about hookers and blow as I am that some career field agent or person who believes they're doing good by feeding information suddenly getting a bullet in the brain because the voice call made about it wasn't secure [cbsn...
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─He should get his own personal server to go with it.
[22:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Eel-Like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:05] <exec> 08└─A start on thinking about using current to move water. All he is missing is a strong magnetic field to pass it through. (See "magnetohydrodynamics") And they even mention using magnets -- as ballast! He should probably hold off on the mass media action until he gets it to do more than twitch unconvi...
[22:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:54] <exec> 08└─The company I work for has a huge and extensive HR department, but have to use recruiters because the HR people are barely competent. The HR department are however astute politicians and wield quite a lot of power. This is common in larger companies unfortunately.
[22:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:55] <exec> 08└─Found the recruiter.
[22:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Comcast Bids £22bn for Sky - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:04] <exec> 08└─I disagree. More choices just confuses people. This will be good for everyone.
[22:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Bids £22bn for Sky - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:07] <exec> 08└─I agree. Choice is good.
[22:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Bids £22bn for Sky - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:09] <exec> 08└─Is there a third option?
[22:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Bids £22bn for Sky - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─I have thought about this some more. Choice is scary and confusing. A much better system would be one where Comcast just take $90 per month from everyone's bank account, then that nice Mr. Pai could decide what services they would offer later.
[22:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Madsen Convicted for the Murder of Kim Wall - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─"Because he got caught." *appalled face*
[22:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:22] <exec> 08└─Undergrads in computational biology would have real data to chew on,
[22:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Outline Roadmap for the Earth BioGenome Project - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:23] <exec> 08└─Just this year there was a photo of a new kind of deep sea squid. How're you going to sequence that?
[22:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:33] <exec> 08└─Look for hydrothermal upgrading, it's basically changing wood (and other wet organic materials) into crude oil.
[22:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:34] <exec> 08└─Don't know, but my guess is they were happy loggers at first. These are guys that haven't seen any kind of store since autumn and have a wad of cash. After taking a suitable amount of money off them I suppose the shop keepers opened the doors again...before they had a store full of unhappy loggers??...
[22:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:36] <exec> 08└─How is hydrothermal upgrading in terms of efficiency? Is it better than ethanol from corn? This is reputed to be somewhere close to a wash, costs as much energy to grow/make as it releases when burned.
[22:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:39] <exec> 08└─Give me all your money so I can distribute it to my friends however I see fit. You have no choice, shut up and do it. That's what many people object to.
[22:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match.com Reactivated Many Old Profiles Without Asking - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─Next time add on that men tend to be very shallow and even ugly fuckers will only want the hotty. Also men tend to send nasty shit to women. Not addressing that part of the online dating scene just shows you to be a mysoginistic angry nerd, further cemented by your tantrum about beta cucks and femin...
[22:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:50] <exec> 08└─First of all, no, neither of those were even close to direct replies. They were of the following form: (Freeman) I believe X Y and Z (Hazuki) Look, X Y and Z don't work because X and Y are mutually contradictory and Z is disproven due to A and B (Freeman) *states X Y and Z again with some links* Wha...
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[23:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:39] <exec> 08└─My God why don't people think more often of the Children? We should be thankful that some people are willing to keep us from harming ourselves. Such incredible bullshit.
[23:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, they still have NFL. No risk there! http://www.gopsusports.com [gopsusports.com] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[23:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:43] <exec> 08└─The Engineering Society club's sole purpose seemed to be to beat other clubs at drinking comps. And for the fellas to compete over the 3-per-100 females doing an engineering degree. But I didn't go to Penn State.
[23:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─Even worse since university students are adults.
[23:03:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:54] <exec> 08└─Well, for this president, I have to question why the concern? He's going to tell everyone everything on Twitter anyway...
[23:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:02] <exec> 08└─To be fair he's only just old enough to be my father, but seriously, electing people over 70 to run your country is a mistake. Did you forget Mr. Reagan's second term? On the other hand when I see that nice young Mr. Trudeau on TV I do wonder if his Mother knows he's out late.
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:04] <exec> 08└─Hey, when they do it deliberately [nbcnews.com], they show they really don't care about anyone but themselves..
[23:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:06] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time presidents were able to put their faith in the superior tech offered by Blackberry. Many such cases! Donald Trump has just been sworn in as the President of the United States, but he'll have to use a different phone to tweet about it. The New York Times reports that the new Presiden...
[23:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:09] <exec> 08└─A personal computing device on which an elected official is non-securely storing government communication... at least Hillary wasn't walking around with her email server.
[23:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:11] <exec> 08└─Well, with some Presidents (W and O both) I think there would be extremely high value in knowing what they say before it is released to public knowledge. With Trump.....?
[23:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:13] <exec> 08└─The whole Hillary thing was a joke and a half, but... she didn't have full Secret Service security detail. I'm betting that somebody physically close to the President is personally charged with the responsibility to physically secure his Twitter tweeter, destroying it if necessary.
[23:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:15] <exec> 08└─Hopefully he has his cloth handy
[23:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:17] <exec> 08└─The Kennedy era had their share of hookers and blow (1960s style) in the White House, they were just much more skilled in the refinement of their public image.
[23:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:20] <exec> 08└─> its Korean overlords who pass it on to their Chinese overlords. You suck at geopolitics.
[23:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:22] <exec> 08└─Just being president does make you shit.
[23:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Cell Phone Use is Security “Nightmare” Waiting to Happen, Lawmakers Say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:24] <exec> 08└─I thought that was Barron's job. Doesn't he understand the cyber?
[23:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA's Gaia Mission Releases Data for 1.7 Billion Milky Way Stars - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:00] <exec> 08└─http://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/ [esa.int] and http://cdn.gea.esac.esa.int [esa.int]
[23:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:24] <exec> 08└─does it have normal wheels, as well as some form of inverted rail, to hold it down? Once it is "airborne", does it steer by rudders, or rails? If rails, the tendency to tip over would put interesting strain on things.. As it is not powered by "traditional" fuels, do they get loyal party members on t...
[23:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:26] <exec> 08└─recruiters are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen in the 1990s.
[23:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he's on SN trying to scout that angry AC for a job washing MDC's cock. Benefits include: Free protein shake
[23:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:09] <exec> 08└─That would defy the purpose as it would destroy the car, no chances to recover anything. (grin)
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Packages Inside Your Car - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─The unlocking is done by OnStar, The delivery guy can't unlock your car. He (amazon guy) has to be withing X feet of it, measured by GPS, Amazon has to have record of a Delivery scheduled for that car parked near your home or work AND within their delivery area. You have to sign up for it and give O...
[23:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:08] <exec> 08└─Young trees reach a size suitable for fuel very quickly. If the speed of growth would be the single aspect that matters in the equation, let me suggest you use grass - reaches maturity in only 30-60 days.
[23:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:09] <exec> 08└─That's kind of like saying "These darned corn farmers! They are harvesting entire crops of corn. And then *maybe* they plant others--but there is no strong guarantee that it will actually happen!"
[23:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wood: A "Carbon-Neutral" Fuel? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:11] <exec> 08└─You don't need evidence
[23:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WASP-104b: An Exoplanet "Darker Than Charcoal" - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:24] <exec> 08└─How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? / Prove the existence of Free Will. What you believe is relevant, if you're actually trying to have a conversation. Otherwise, you're just tossing wood on the fire. Here's a definition, if you need to know what "Free Will" is referring to. http://www.d...
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