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[00:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:45] <exec> 08└─one sues the other, the other sues back. We're guaranteed a perfectly unbiassed view by which side of this argument?
[00:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:46] <exec> 08└─No no no... This is one sues the other, the other sends a SWAT team to his home in hopes he'd be shot dead. I think we're living through 80s and 90s dystopian scify action films. Only, there's no cool tech or drugs so there's nothing *opian about it.
[00:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:48] <exec> 08└─Only, there's no cool tech or drugs so there's nothing *opian about it.
[00:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:51] <exec> 08└─A dumb one.
[00:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:53] <exec> 08└─What else would you expect from Mask the Pedophile... https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:55] <exec> 08└─Why?
[00:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:57] <exec> 08└─Older white man takes a job in Thailand. A job that allows him to grope wet women and children.
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─A 7 million row dataset. ... pivot tables... crowning acheivement ... it's probably overdue time to learn how to use a database. :P
[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─Some high executive from Microsoft sales departmen is taking his plane in this moment with a shiny briefcase filled with very respectable figures.
[00:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:23] <exec> 08└─The OpenWRT project lead had a infamous history of rejecting patches with not good reason or explanation and having all the major discussions done on private channels with a few developers that weren't even that active contributors and without even announcing said changes in logs or mailing lists. T...
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─Actually the problem started when other planets we discovered, at that time I wrote an article about the "12 planets" because the count had increased to such and jokingly felt pity for the poor kids who would have to learn three more names. A good note is on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─It's largely pointless as the definition of a planet requires it to orbit our sun, which means that there are and likely only will ever be 8 planets under the current definition of a planet. I really don't get why they were so offended by Pluto that they had to demote the 99.99999999% of the other p...
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to bet that a large percentage of the 'undersigned' are American. Pluto was the only 'planet' to have been discovered by an American, so its relegation to "Dwarf Planet" status means that THE US HAS NEVER DISCOVERED A PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Oh noes! This is the only reason that Plut...
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─My point was that it doesn't matter if the solar system has 253 planets (256 would matter, because of the 8-bit overflow). Teach the kids the 8 to 10 Major Planets, and a selection of of the most interesting other bodies (Pluto, the big moons, notable comets). "There are too many to remember everyth...
[00:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:09] <exec> 08└─Set up a poll, and the internet will approve calling Pluto planet 9, and the next one King's Cross planet 9 3/4.
[00:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─As the Kansas song goes: "All you are is dust in the wind." ( I sing along in my head changing it to 'you' because that's their choice. They only speak for themselves in the song)
[00:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:06] <exec> 08└─In 200 years or less people will be strip mining the landfills. And cursing the fools who so loudly advocated high temperature incineration of all those resources.
[00:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:41] <exec> 08└─But how did this data counter any alternative models?
[00:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:42] <exec> 08└─Because "theory" in the experimental sciences implies reliability.
[00:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:44] <exec> 08└─a complete nonsequiter
[00:12:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─Or we could just not have the theater?
[00:13:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 2376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─As soon as MS released Win10 & all the crap inherent in that particular turd I decided Win7 was the point where I got off the MS infinite treadmill for anyone else. I refuse to accept the telemetry, my Screen Reader is a *Mission Critical* application for me (I can not use my computer without it), &...
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[01:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:47] <exec> 08└─So if you want to "Do No Evil" (and I get that it is fading from Google - that's another discussion) but what is worse? => Don't provide a service at all - because it isn't all that you want it to be and you don't agree with the "Power's that be" etc. => Provide a lesser service - strip some results...
[01:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:49] <exec> 08└─Has a slur ever been more appropriate?
[01:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:51] <exec> 08└─Different countries have different laws (written or otherwise) and Google been censoring stuff to accommodate those laws for years. A very partial list can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But that's really just the tip of the iceberg. There are regio...
[01:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:05] <exec> 08└─By association with Trump.
[01:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:06] <exec> 08└─If it was this [wikipedia.org] spice, it might be OK.
[01:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:19] <exec> 08└─Why bother with a database if input/output is one guy processing data and preparing a report for a meeting? You don't need form submitting. You don't need interpolation. It's raw imported in in, a few formulas for processing, and results come out. It's the textbook use case for spreadsheets. And siz...
[01:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─It’s like the 12th Doctor. We found out there was one in between 8 and 9, but didn’t bother upping the index and changed the index system into a dict and called the extra Doctor the ‘war’ Doctor. So now we get to say that the ‘14th’ Doctor can be referenced as the ‘13th’.
[01:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─That's Republicans not conservatives. There's as big a difference as there is between Democrats and liberals. When the Democrats do something anti-liberal, I criticize the Democrats. When the Republicans do something anti-conservative, you defend the Republicans.
[01:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:45] <exec> 08└─The certification process decreases liability. This is the only goal because (re)moving liability is the Western Way to Glory (see the history of LLCorporations). As per actual bugs, nobody gives a shit.
[01:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:47] <exec> 08└─Only when morons write the software, which is mostly the case lately.
[01:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:46] <exec> 08└─Yep; they are also usually cheaper.
[01:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:47] <exec> 08└─meets TSA standards
[01:14:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─I'm a major environmentalist and even I agree with that. Sort out the container ships and aircraft instead.
[01:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't get any adult allowing themselves to be in a position where taking any minimum wage job is ever more than a dire emergency fill-in job.
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[02:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:55] <exec> 08└─Car manufacturers selling to Country A need to fit lower bumpers, and for country B, they need a particle filter on the exhaust. Business complies with regulation to enter appealing market. News at 11.
[02:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:56] <exec> 08└─Now that they have shown they CAN and WILL squelch speech on command, every government on the planet will demand the same, and if they refuse, they can expect more fines and sanctions.
[02:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:58] <exec> 08└─This ^ If Google is willing to cooperate with one government to censor the web, then Google is able to cooperate with other governments. Or, worse, just impose their own brand of censorship, above and beyond any government requirements. We've often commented on the algorithms Google uses. My results...
[02:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:01] <exec> 08└─I remember a few years back, Google would already have its search engine return censored search, then eventually left. The money is probably too good to let China away.
[02:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:03] <exec> 08└─Don't care what weasel words you use, they are still supporting a corrupt and over reaching government. I know someone in Alphabet took a business ethics course so they can't feign ignorance.
[02:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:25] <exec> 08└─You are quite correct, I was not disagreeing, simply pointing to the fact that once more "planets" had been found some people felt the need to redefine what "planet" is, particularly because Pluto has a very large moon (Charon) that makes it almost a binary planet. Anyway, I never saw the need to re...
[02:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:27] <exec> 08└─> Pluto has a very large moon (Charon) that makes it almost a binary planet. I'd go as far as calling it a binary outright, because the center of mass of that system is outside of Pluto's body. Since there's at least two more moons orbiting that binary system, i'm not quite sure what the secondary t...
[02:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:00] <exec> 08└─I think you're seeing what you want to see. I slap people down when their Trump Derangement Syndrome is acting up but why would I care if the Republicans do something anti-conservative? I'm not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a liberal. You're a progressive. The two used to be...
[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:01] <exec> 08└─For you, for me, but for someone who is brown skinned in a town where the white skins control the money? Try becoming an apprentice plumber or some such when there are people of the correct color lined up for those opportunities...
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[03:08:59] <exec> 08└─First they came for the Chinese, but I was not Chinese and I hate them damn reds so I said nothing. Then they came for ASIS but they're a bunch of looney religious nuts so I said nothing. Then they came for me and there was no one left to cry out. THEN I RELOADED MY c-AR! and they regretted modding...
[03:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you think human rights are the same as car bumpers.
[03:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:56] <exec> 08└─It's a bitch, isn't it? During our young lives, we were presented with reasons to be liberal, and reasons to be conservative. The two parties courted us as youngsters, each hoping to snare more voters. As we matured, each of us found reason to be liberal, or to be conservative, or in some cases, to...
[03:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:23] <exec> 08└─You should try to see my point. It's a common abuse of government power for people to settle simple disagreements or conflicts with a ridiculous and myopically applied amount of government power. The more we use government to handle stuff which would resolve itself anyway, the more abusive and capri...
[03:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:24] <exec> 08└─Actually "the power of the teacher and school" is, all too often, insufficient with too many parents.
[03:17:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:34] <exec> 08└─You can't take a chance on a newbie when you have to pay them more than they might be worth.
[03:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen it in the south
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[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:55] <exec> 08└─I'm really excited to try out the new Oreo 8.0! I'm hoping my phone's manufacturer decides to release the update to my carrier, who will then maybe consider letting me have it as an update to my phone just before I'm ready to upgrade to another one. Maybe the next phone I get will let me experience...
[04:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:02] <exec> 08└─n/t
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:19] <exec> 08└─Meh. If you've been paying attention, you'd know that this was developed for the CIA. China merely gets to be the beta testers. Watch for information about 19th century economists and philosophers along with present-day class and workers' struggles being deindexed as fake news, and not just on their...
[04:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─We're gonna get you! We're gonna get you! We're gonna get you! JOIN US!
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─In most cases, yes, as since I understand it "gook" is a corruption of "megouk," which is a *Vietnamese* cognate of the Mandarin Chinese "mei guo" (the name for the US). God, you suck at this...
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[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on what the data is, but a 7-million row spreadsheet is stupid. Yes, Excel may be capable of handling it, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. The whole point of a spreadsheet is based on a visual metaphor -- literally a sheet like an old accounting book. It's useful for datasets small...
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[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─I think the point was the chart. Right tool for the task at hand....database doesn't sound like the right tool
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─You should read up on pivot tables and pivot charts before displaying ignorance. A wise man would understand the use case before pissing on a clever solution to a problem that required speed and output a layman could understand. I welcome someone offering a tool that offers the same data aggregation...
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─Huh? Do you think I don't know what pivot tables are? A pivot table is NOT a spreadsheet. Pivot tables are functions found in various analytical tools including spreadsheet programs, databases, and other data analysis tools. If you know what you're doing, you can simulate many of their functions pre...
[04:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:53] <exec> 08└─Planet McNineFace
[04:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:54] <exec> 08└─> a big eff you to the global scientific community. Also see: imperial units of measurement, creationism...
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[04:15:05] <exec> 08└─Stage 3 tarball for Gentoo FTW!
[04:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:59] <exec> 08└─Even in cases where that is true, the French law will do nothing to change the situation for the better. And why should we do stupid things just because some school systems are incompetently run?
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[05:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:40] <exec> 08└─Now?!??!? Battery life should be just about the top driver since the beginning of Android... being its prime use is in battery powered phones. ( Its also a major concern to me in my Arduino compatible designs ). Often 1mA for me is way too much!
[05:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:47] <exec> 08└─Honestly, this seems a lot harder to get right than an artificial womb. Lab-grown organs for transplant are just a much bigger research priority, and the one thing everybody can come up with when they think of bioengineering.
[05:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:08] <exec> 08└─Companies do not mess with other countries, unless ordered to. Human rights abroad are managed by politicians and diplomats, sometimes by sanctions, blockade and war humanitarian bombings.
[05:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:09] <exec> 08└─Don't care what weasel words you use, they are still supporting a corrupt and over reaching government
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─Just want to clarify before you pick up on a meaningless distinction as a criticism to quibble about: yes, pivot tables can take the form of a table that acts like a spreadsheet too. What I meant by "pivot tables are not spreadsheets" is that the existence of a pivot table depends on a raw data flat...
[05:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:43] <exec> 08└─It is not so easy this time. The mayor, Virginia Raggi, is from the populist movimento 5 stelle. As such the media, which were silent when the roman mafia practically ran the place, are keeping her under scrutiny. The moment a MS exec drops one penny towards the second cousin of some bureaucrat's ho...
[05:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:20] <exec> 08└─I was grumpy.
[05:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah those silly astronomers remaking arbitrarily definitions and stuff. Clearly a sign they make too much money. If you excuse me now, I am going to check out the free space on my 1000M=1G hard disk.
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:18] <exec> 08└─No one really knows what the two parties are today.
[05:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:45] <exec> 08└─Entropy, is that you? I know it's you. Fuck off!
[05:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:51] <exec> 08└─What are you trying to bring on a plane that makes going through the TSA screening such an ordeal?
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this comment. It's an intriguing take on potential implications , though this study sounds nowhere broad enough to draw broad conclusions (even if it's well-designed). Does doing geometrical proofs improve logical thinking? Does learning Latin or Greek improve your grammar and linguistic...
[05:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:00] <exec> 08└─I couldn't even get "plays_for_sure" to work reliably. That one was so faith_based it belongs in a church.
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[06:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:01] <exec> 08└─And consumers just don't care enough to demand change.
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─This is a great post, your blink, blink got me chuckling. You had me wondering how hard it must be to use a computer blind, something taken for granted by the rest of us. Sorting through Soylentnews comments must be interesting.my Sohe best of luck in reestablishing a workable computer solution, dud...
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[06:15:20] <exec> 08└─Uhhh... Then you're not really virtualizing your install in to a non-hardware-dependent VM, now are you?
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[07:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:20] <exec> 08└─This is going to be unpopular but the truth always is. Take a non-partisan point of view. Google and Facebook are asked to suppress “fake news” in the U.S., China wants to suppress “fake news” too. The only difference is what constitutes, in each country, “fake news”. In the U.S. this ce...
[07:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:53] <exec> 08└─How about stopping doing "managerial" bullshit and actually do science instead? Next time they'll be talking of elf and troll planets, I'm sure of it.
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[08:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:58] <exec> 08└─hate when I have an outbreak in my mangina :(
[08:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:05] <exec> 08└─The meaning of life, the universe, and everything: *drumroll* is rounded corners.
[08:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:07] <exec> 08└─If Apple is not issuing new shares, what's the fuss? Apple took the investment money long ago on the share market and used it already.
[08:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─Do you believe that having one more search engine to censor is reducing the odds that Chinese people will access information ?
[08:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─In Germany, any Nazi-related speech is criminal and can lead to jail. Anyone against Germany for violating the right to free speech?
[08:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:04] <exec> 08└─I don't find coordinated sabotage by the existing oil and car industry to be very likely as the root cause of the problems at Tesla as Musk wants everyone to think. I just don't see Tesla as nearly any kind of threat to the car companies because they can easily wait for it to either rot from the ins...
[08:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:40] <exec> 08└─I was referring to bricking my FTDI chips. [mspoweruser.com] I had FTDI chips in my designs. I had to go through all of it and replace them with CH340's. Although I expect this kind of stuff to run in "Business-Grade" systems, I will not tolerate this kind of thing in the systems I make. My stuff i...
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[09:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:39] <exec> 08└─Move to the 3rd world, half your salary, but become the top 1% in the region.
[09:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:41] <exec> 08└─Learned any lesson so far? No? Picture me unsurprised.
[09:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:43] <exec> 08└─This is not surprising. You can have people with good jobs, six figure salaries living in a cheaper area and still living paycheck to paycheck and yet have immigrants earning minimum wage saving enough over years to buy houses with cash.
[09:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:45] <exec> 08└─If you apologize for illegals depressing wage growth and increasing housing costs while paying no taxes - you are financially illiterate.
[09:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:47] <exec> 08└─90% of statistics are bullshit. Have a citation for yours or is just annecdotes that you share?
[09:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:50] <exec> 08└─If you apologize for illegals...
[09:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/19/94-percent-of-americans-failed-this-financial-literacy-quiz.html [cnbc.com] http://fortune.com [fortune.com] https://annexwealth.com [annexwealth.com] https://www.financialeducatorscouncil.org
[09:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:54] <exec> 08└─In addition to that list, I have many anecdotes and know many immigrants, the majority of whom are doing well. Have also worked with my share of dipshit coworkers who upon getting their $125k/year job go out and buy $100k/cars and move into $2k/month apartments, eat out for every meal and fly to Eur...
[09:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:03] <exec> 08└─Don't mock - there are many Western males that can trace their evolutionary lineage back to the town of mangina.
[09:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:13] <exec> 08└─I bet in ten years it's worth less than IBM.
[09:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:16] <exec> 08└─what's the fuss?
[09:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:27] <exec> 08└─Often 1mA for me is way too much!
[09:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:33] <exec> 08└─They're not doing it because they have principles, they're doing it because they want a better deal on Office 2020.
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[10:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:58] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting Europeans and Chinese are more economically literate then Americans? Cause otherwise that's what we call a straw man.
[10:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:00] <exec> 08└─You can't pay cash for a house working minimum wage unless it's a retirement property. Do the maths deducting rent, living costs and taxes.
[10:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:02] <exec> 08└─At least we know the difference between "then" and "than".
[10:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:04] <exec> 08└─Do the maths deducting rent, living costs and taxes.
[10:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 1380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:01] <exec> 08└─This is going to be unpopular but the truth always is. Take a non-partisan point of view. Google and Facebook are asked to suppress “fake news” in the U.S., China wants to suppress “fake news” too. The only difference is what constitutes, in each country, “fake news”. In the U.S. this ce...
[10:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:05] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that was intended. In other words, whoosh!
[10:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:23] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily the oil and/or car industry, but short sellers willing to do anything not to lose their huge bet on Tesla failing. https://teslamotorsclub.com [teslamotorsclub.com]
[10:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:43] <exec> 08└─I think this time Libreoffice's blitzkrieg will work. Just attack when MS Office is doing its update thing.
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[11:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:42] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is expensive. Every dollar spent for a doctor and care comes right out of profit. That's completely against the American version of healthcare, which are huge buildings, healthcare logo on top, filled with desk hens fluttering from desk to desk, but not a stethoscope in sight. Its a Busi...
[11:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:44] <exec> 08└─Yup, the medical industry is simply an offshoot of the insurance industry, with a nice slathering of big-pharma in order to keep it unfair and balanced.
[11:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:46] <exec> 08└─There's no long-term-well-established definition of death related to childbirth internationally, so it's hard to compare different countries. It's hard to even compare states, as each state has its own definition. Likewise, you can't draw trend graphs, as definitions have changed over time (in parti...
[11:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:48] <exec> 08└─Do you know why those hens are strapped to those desks instead of monitoring patients? They're RNs that are dealing with the enormous stacks of paperwork required by the government and the insurance companies for anyone to be paid for their work. That's also why you never see a doctor on the floor;...
[11:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:07] <exec> 08└─The typical American worker now earns around $44,500 a year, not much more than what the typical worker earned in 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation.
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─Than you think of yourself higher then the rest?
[11:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─Have you not noticed that the entire country is moving towards third world, whilst staying exactly where it is?
[11:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:13] <exec> 08└─Remember this horseshit?: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] Seems like every time a Republican president fixes a Democrat's economic fuckup, our betters in the media come out to trumpet "It's not a real recovery!" But who are y...
[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, if they're decreasing wages they'll be decreasing housing costs too - you can't have it both ways. The only way they'll drive up housing costs is if they're bringing money to the regional economy. In which case, what the frig are you complaining about?
[11:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:18] <exec> 08└─Well than, that is literally the most illiterate strawman I have ever encountered, where the man of straw is not any greater then, in an instance, we are talking about some alt-right white stuff that is racist. Know your place, white trash!@
[11:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:20] <exec> 08└─meals covered by food stamps?
[11:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 2315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:22] <exec> 08└─Yeh, I took that test ( top item ). I think its kinda bogus, in the matter that different people have different circumstances. I will cite the first question about how much money you should save up for a rainy day. They cite the correct answer as three to six months. Now, I felt the correct answer...
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─And where is the employee outcry about this? Where are the workers ready to walk out in defense of free speech? Anybody? But the Pentagon contract was evil because it supported an imperialist colonial regime? Two-faced Google fucks deserve to have their lunch eaten by Baidu.
[11:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:04] <exec> 08└─But Microsoft will use money to oust her and put THEIR person into power, like they did in Germany (Berlin? I believe???)
[11:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:06] <exec> 08└─It is controversial because it's an unnecessary change a historic convention for no benefit at all. Astronomers were more than capable of coming up with their specialist terms, and planet could have remained defined simply as "these specific 9 bodies". The reason for removing Pluto as a planet is ju...
[11:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:08] <exec> 08└─No, it WAS him: he's moving on up...to the east side...to a deluxe apartment in the sky.... ...he needed to down size.
[11:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:09] <exec> 08└─It's straw men AAALLL the way down.
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[11:16:27] <exec> 08└─Corey, thank you. It *is* a right pain in the ass trying to deal with a computer at the best of times, even moreso when you're forced to rely on a third party to provide the tool required to do it. Windows has a built in reader, Windows Narrator, but it is quite literally The Utter Worst of the tool...
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[12:08:54] <exec> 08└─A third, but not all insurance or regulatory forms. https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com]
[12:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:55] <exec> 08└─Yup... the paperwork gets done and submitted. They get paid for that. The patient goes without. That's a cost center. They don't get paid for servicing a patient. The fundamentals of business... expand profit centers, minimize cost centers. Hire lots of desk hens. Minimize doctors. Get Paid! Con...
[12:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:58] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point. Doctors and nurses would much rather be seeing patients than playing secretary but they can't or they don't get paid. Thus the recent occurrence of cash-only healthcare facilities. Out in Oklahoma right now you can either go to a hospital and get knee surgery that is going...
[12:09:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:16] <exec> 08└─The typical American worker now earns around $44,500 a year, not much more than what the typical worker earned in 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation.
[12:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:25] <exec> 08└─and know many immigrants, the majority of whom are doing well
[12:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:27] <exec> 08└─Nah, if they're decreasing wages they'll be decreasing housing costs too - you can't have it both ways.
[12:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:29] <exec> 08└─So, you're suggesting if we teach children the difference between "then" and "than" our economic problems will be resolved? Otherwise, yet another strawman. Well, adhominem, misdirection and some condescension. But as long as the other party shuts up I guess you won. So, here's your 10 Internets. Be...
[12:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:31] <exec> 08└─you may be able to afford an asset that's overpriced due to immigration.. Welcome to the American Dream.
[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Dumbass, "adjusted for inflation" means individual workers today are objectively better off than they were in 1978.
[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─Best Ramones reference in this whole discussion.
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─The point is that wages *used* to keep up with productivity increases, but they haven't since the 1970s: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com [nakedcapitalism.com]
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:40] <exec> 08└─They're as good as they were *in 1978* *with respect to inflation. A lot of things have outpaced inflation, such as the cost of education, housing, and healthcare.
[12:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:58] <exec> 08└─I think this might be fake news - apple's buying back shares. That's what gave the price a kick. I think they're multiplying the old number of shares by the new price, which would be bogosity incarnate.
[12:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:00] <exec> 08└─Making jokes about Apple's stock prices will be read as Qu'ils mangent de la brioche by future historians. People will plot Apple jokes on a curve line against a time axis and at a certain peak they'll mark the downfall and say: This is where the buck stopped. Subject chapters will have whimsical ti...
[12:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:02] <exec> 08└─Unless what they bought back are destroyed, the multiplication is valid. Whether or not that's their market value is maybe disputable, but the "market capitalization" is right (meaningless metric as it may be).
[12:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:21] <exec> 08└─... to lease the Millar Research Clinic... ... all physical experimental rights in my body... ... for one week for the sum of 100 pounds.
[12:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:49] <exec> 08└─Provide the service, provide VPN, proxies, .onion, and say fuck you when they try block shit. Doing nothing while evil occurs is tacit approval of evil.
[12:11:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 1608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:20] <exec> 08└─Depends on what the data is, but a 7-million row spreadsheet is stupid. Yes, Excel may be capable of handling it, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. The whole point of a spreadsheet is based on a visual metaphor -- literally a sheet like an old accounting book. It's useful for datasets small...
[12:11:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:44] <exec> 08└─The OpenWRT project lead had a infamous history of rejecting patches with not good reason or explanation and having all the major discussions done on private channels with a few developers that weren't even that active contributors and without even announcing said changes in logs or mailing lists. T...
[12:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:35] <exec> 08└─It's aluminum. You're wrong, and in the minority. 'ium' doesn't even make sense.
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[13:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:44] <exec> 08└─Of course as always it must be a "tweet"(R)(TM) rather than "he said" or "he posted". And all communications to the consumertard masses MUST be made through the private third party web site Twitter(R)(TM).
[13:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:45] <exec> 08└─It's a good fit for him, and doesn't censor or twist his words. It's even open for commentary from the many people who don't like him. What's so terrible about this?
[13:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─By all appearances, the purpose of the recent expansion of Sinclair Broadcast Group is to set up a way for Trump-friendly propaganda to be the only TV shown in most American cities. So any disruption to that plan is cause for Trump to pull out the public complaining.
[13:09:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:01] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is a self serving business. My wife showed early signs of pre-eclampsia, the OBs basically ignored them, said everythin' gonna' be alright just come in quick if you start going blind. Well, she started going blind and ended up in ICU for 2 weeks. The OBs called that a "good outcome" becau...
[13:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:03] <exec> 08└─Don't people have to pay for healthcare in the USA? Taken into consideration with the very previous story : https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] , there is the answer.
[13:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:05] <exec> 08└─cash-only healthcare facilities
[13:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:07] <exec> 08└─I got misread terribly! Its not the doctors I blame at all! Those are those schmoes in the trenches trying to do the best they can under the environment they are commissioned to work within. Another profession with almost identical restraints are Teachers. Its the Employment Environment which I co...
[13:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:09] <exec> 08└─One hospital I worked with had two sides of every hallway: one side with doctors, nurses and patients, and across the hall was all billing and administration - fully 50% of the square footage devoted to processing the billing, and they were falling behind on the billing work.
[13:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:11] <exec> 08└─On top of that, the American system hires legions of people to quibble over who is going to pay and how much... so much so that nobody has much time left for doing doctoring. That middle layer is filled with nothing but dunsel. [wikipedia.org] Very expensive dunsel at that. ( Dunsel: a Starfleet Aca...
[13:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:14] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid you've got the analysis here wrong. You sound like a socialist incel to me. What's really going on here is that there is a giant conspiracy among all medical personnel assigned the male gender at birth to murder women. They do it because they hate women because they can't get laid. There...
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─It's also bullshit both ways. It's probably similar here in Oz. The house I am in, which I bought 20 years ago, cost at that time about three times the mean annual income. Same house now, no changes to it, is worth about ten times mean annual income. (and the mean has gone up far faster than the med...
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─Immigration places downwards pressure on wages and upwards pressure on property prices. A growing percentage of the population cannot afford to buy a home and raise a family without government assistance. The top 10% disproportionately pay for that assistance [dailysignal.com] and it is unsustainabl...
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─The immigrants manage to tighten their ass and grow hordes of kids on the same or lower income as you.
[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Living in Cebu, Philippines right now.
[13:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:57] <exec> 08└─I took the first test too, and even allowing for the fact that I am a European, it is bullshit. Skipped the first question as it is about US healthcare costs, but seeing we have just been told that 80% of Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck, I wonder you don't all die at 65 or soon after...
[13:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, but computers are much cheaper. Myself, I live in a secondhand mainframe I picked up cheap, and I eat Android tablets. Much cheaper than they were in 1978. Stop whinging you people and adapt to the times.
[13:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:01] <exec> 08└─Putting it in a nutshell, subsistence and other basic things have become much dearer, but optional things have become generally cheaper. So the poor, who do not stretch to the optional things, are hit worse.
[13:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:24] <exec> 08└─anyone have a pie-chart about apple manufactured hardware by type/model? i would really like to be able to say (without it being fake news): "teh one product company is worth a trillion dollars" :}
[13:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:51] <exec> 08└─You sure Microsoft can't convince the papers to spin it as a scandal no matter what they do? If they switch back, you could get the anti-Microsoft slanted scandal of accepting "bribes" from MS execs in the form of better licensing agreements and such...that's far from the worst option though since t...
[13:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:05] <exec> 08└─confirmed to be running on: TP-Link TL-WR902AC(US) Ver.1 (!) (~50US$) link: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] cartoon how-to: https://pastebin.com [pastebin.com]
[13:12:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:25] <exec> 08└─so we get the ridiculous notion that at 5 AU, it's a planet, at 55 AU it's a 'dwarf planet'?
[13:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:57] <exec> 08└─I think they should name the planets after elements, and the next planet should be named after element 95 - so America it is.
[13:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:58] <exec> 08└─> Jupiter itself has a BLEEPLOAD of stuff loosely scattered around it's L4 and L5 points. Yes, it's captured them gravitationally. That means they're now cleared.
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[14:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:59] <exec> 08└─EVERYBODY is making moves to replace Oracle wherever possible. Oracle is THAT ABUSIVE to its customers. Greedy idiots are killing their business in the long term. People have good alternatives now and Oracle needs to internalize this fact.
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, not my company. Management is insisting our division drop Postgres, which all our DBAs and sysadmins know well, and get on something "reliable" (i.e. costs 6 figures every year).
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:03] <exec> 08└─Bezos doesn't want to share his fortune with Ellison, trying to keep his fellow billionaire down ... sad times ... Considering the size and apparent capacity needs of Amazon they seem to have outgrown Oracle, and the probably outgrown everyone and everything. It would seem their only solution would...
[14:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:14] <exec> 08└─If that's how Trump feels, who's stopping him from firing the person responsible? Well, aside from him being the person responsible that is...
[14:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:16] <exec> 08└─Never before have we had the blessing of a technology that allows the president, in his very own words, to express to the entire world just how unthinkingly stupid, naive, short sighted, petty and vindictive he actually is. Available for all to read. A permanent monument to the monumentally stupid....
[14:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─Except for Faux, most propaganda on TV is Trump hating. How would the Sinclair merger eliminate that barrage?
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─You're certainly correct and insightful as always. My mom's been in hospital probably 45 days so far this year and I with her much of the time, so I have a lot of direct observation. The RNs and patient techs are mostly with patients, there just aren't enough of them. I often have a direct view of...
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─How many of us watch people click whatever is necessary to dismiss those modal boxes, frustrated that something critical might be missed. I have never done that tho.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─Governmental policy has transformed insurance companies into quasi-socialist political creatures that form a special-purpose, black-box payment network where the consumers have no idea what anything costs, and where doctors are in danger of losing their careers if they don't order every goddamn test...
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe life just sucks and you got hit with the statistic this time.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─There's no long-term-well-established definition of death related to childbirth internationally, so it's hard to compare different countries
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─During WWII, the government put socialistic caps on what companies could pay employees, in order to reduce war-time profiteering. Well, the loophole was that a company could offer "benefits" instead of money, and so companies started paying for healh-care insurance. That's why health care is so inti...
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─Someone nearly died you insensitive clod
[14:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─Have you not noticed that the entire country is moving towards third world, whilst staying exactly where it is?
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─There immigrants in Europe and Canada and they don't have wage issues there.
[14:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─Every time I see "Cebu", I get this song stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─So a week ago it was defeated and now it's back again? How about we just purge that entire area in fire and be done with it once and for all. It seems to be some kind of hotbed for Ebola. Everytime it pops up it stays around for months and then whenever it goes away it comes back again. Clearly we a...
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:14] <exec> 08└─Microsoft have made most of the public into sheep by training consumers to have no opinions and just accept the changes software companies choose for us.
[14:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:24] <exec> 08└─In the US alone, more than 1,400 people are waiting for a lung transplant
[14:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:53] <exec> 08└─This was my primary question to, I don't really care if Google wants to build a great-firewall-of-china-approved search engine or not -- after all they are already censoring information in most countries due to various local laws / right to be forgotten etc. I was wondering where the staff uproar is...
[14:12:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:22] <exec> 08└─A 7 million row dataset. ... pivot tables... crowning acheivement ... it's probably overdue time to learn how to use a database. :P
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─All of these labels are arbitrary anyway so arguing over them is stupid. They are all just different sizes of celestial bodies, all made of the same initial material. The universe doesn't care what label you give it. You know what, if we find something large out there I will be excited weather or no...
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─(3) This guy somehow manages to dig up old family photo albums from the Kellogg family. Then he decides to perpetrate an elaborate hoax, requiring him to find copies of 17th-century books that have a record of being in Jefferson's library, then to rebind them (in a way that Jefferson distinctively d...
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[15:08:49] <exec> 08└─... Reddit, a well-known social news aggravation site
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:00] <exec> 08└─Amazon, I want to encourage you. I have "been on" Oracle database software in the past, and I agree that its handy features like sequences and robust triggers make you want to stay on it. But if you make that decision to quit completely, use auto_increment instead of sequences, and use cron job func...
[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:02] <exec> 08└─Jesus, I work as a contractor to the Army and DHS, not exactly IT hotbeds, and they have moved many systems off Oracle and continue to replace the remaining ones. It's a priority in over half the places. If you know the govt, they used to be BIG Oracle shops (still are), so for them to put the money...
[15:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:04] <exec> 08└─Oracle is damn quirky. Most of that is because it is so old that it had features that were only added to the SQL standard many years later in a different form. So, you tend to have the "standard way" and the "Oracle way." It's a pain in the ass. Plus the old architecture (which was very good for its...
[15:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:06] <exec> 08└─Kickbacks.
[15:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:08] <exec> 08└─MongoDB is web scale! [youtube.com]
[15:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:11] <exec> 08└─I moved off Oracle in 1961. Not funny? Okay - whatever you all say. The ONLY thing that Oracle has worthy of my time, is Virtualbox. And, they didn't create it, they didn't market it, and I'm not sure that they've improved it since they bought it. I'd be a lot happier if they got rid of VBox. Sell i...
[15:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─Plus its [Oracle's] CEO is possibly the biggest dick in tech
[15:09:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─By all appearances, the purpose of the recent expansion of Sinclair Broadcast Group is to set up a way for Trump-friendly propaganda to be the only TV shown in most American cities. So any disruption to that plan is cause for Trump to pull out the public complaining.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─Why does it have to be Medicare? Let communities (including groups spread out across different governmental jurisdictions) form their own damn groups with their own damn definitions of obligation. The problem with the U.S. is that the government has made health care into a political creature, and th...
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─Someone, somewhere in society needs to be making a profit so that it's actually possible to pay to care for people. The bean counters are actually quite important; it just so happens that the government has decoupled the economics of health care from reality, and so the bean counters are also behavi...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─It's about profit at the cash-only places too. Profit is not a dirty word. It just means the people providing the product or service don't have to work for free and might even be able to grow their business. There's not even anything wrong with making as much profit as you possibly can (Overall, not...
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─There's some truth to what you say but that doesn't cover the breadth of the problems in the healthcare industry even by half.
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Unless they hold stock in the facility, the doctors working there have no financial incentive to rack up a bill. I expect they were either ordered to take up such a policy (which would be highly actionable) or you just got hit with a dipshit OB.
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─Medicare has first mover advantage. Surely a capitalist would understand first mover advantage!
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─Doctors have no problem getting laid. Money has always been a pretty strong aphrodisiac. The bean counters though, there you may be on to something.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─On your medical bill, your insurance company will FINALLY tell you what something cost: Without them, you would have paid "$142" for that shot/jab you received, but not only did the insurance company pay the bill for you, but also only paid the low, negotiated price "$12". So, there you go. You have...
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's almost as though the doctors are being directed and managed by people who do hold stock in the hospital. I'm working on a conspiracy theory about this! I think I will call them "administrators" and "members of the board," though I have not yet decided if these are ranks of lizard person below t...
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─If it's present tense then it has to be conjunction unless using specific verbs. If it's present continues and other tenses the and can only designate continuation. But here, unless you're suggesting they're suffering in hell, you probably want "suffer and die" or "suffer or die". Well, being honest...
[15:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─That's it. The only "advantage" is that Medicare can use the men with guns to extract money from you. That's sounds totally un-American, and it's certainly anti-Capitalist.
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─If you cull the lower third of the bell curve, all those problems go away. Why should anyone subsidize stupid?
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 2321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─The OBs working that office overbooked their practice, 7/8 scheduled pre-natal care visits would run late, like 2 and even 4 hours late, for all patients. They weren't just busy, they were physically and mentally exhausted by the middle of every practice day. They skimped on our scheduled care visit...
[15:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─Absolutely correct. I wonder: if the "healthcare system" in the US was pretty much socialist, would it work much better? As it stands, it's a complex web of sharply delineated rules and gotchas significantly more complex than IRS. My cynical view is that govt. divisions keep it going to justify thei...
[15:10:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─The point is that wages *used* to keep up with productivity increases, but they haven't since the 1970s: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com [nakedcapitalism.com]
[15:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:05] <exec> 08└─Putting it in a nutshell, subsistence and other basic things have become much dearer, but optional things have become generally cheaper. So the poor, who do not stretch to the optional things, are hit worse.
[15:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:12] <exec> 08└─Myself, I live in a secondhand mainframe I picked up cheap,
[15:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:14] <exec> 08└─well in the UK you cannot generally sell a bond once you have bought it
[15:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:17] <exec> 08└─Wages should never be linked to productivity increases. That's fucking insane. Idiocy like that would have auto workers making millions a year since they're able to get hundreds of times more productivity per person than they could in Henry Ford's day. And cars would cost so much that not even the a...
[15:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have that beef with how inflation is calculated as well.
[15:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, shit like this story just make me think how much I wanna be sedated.
[15:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should look for a Android One device. I hate recommending purchasing new phones, and am not terribly fond of Android, but at least Google has recognized the problem you describe and is doing something about it: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If I were shopping...
[15:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:54] <exec> 08└─Is it time for Elon to buy his compound in Belize before the assassins start making attempts on his life?
[15:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks this is such an interesting read. If Solarcity was forced into bankruptcy, they would have defaulted on their solar bonds that Spacex bought previously.
[15:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─Or instead of claiming Pluto isn't a planet we could acknowledge that Pluto is a planet. You know, planet is a word that has been around for quite some time, before the International Astronomical Union existed. Claiming the authority to redefine a word like "planet" is hubris, when that definition i...
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─You do realize that there are actual mathematical metrics for measuring this stuff, right?
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─And while I'm at it, it's spelled Aluminium!
[15:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:36] <exec> 08└─I was thrown a little as well by one of the found books, "Flowers in the Attic", but then I remembered it was written a LONG time ago. It must have been from his adolescent phase.
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─The way I read one of the other stories about this same thing was that he was pretty sure the books were old and worth something, but sold them on eBay because he needed cash, THEN realized that it was Kellogg family albums he had and that the books he'd sold on eBay would have been worth a lot more...
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[16:08:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:51] <exec> 08└─... Reddit, a well-known social news aggravation site
[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─Was I the only person who chuckled when I heard this story? It could only be funnier if it was 4chan
[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:54] <exec> 08└─There was an SMS message and ... someone reddit? They used it to access a server, and when they found a database they ... reddit?
[16:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:11] <exec> 08└─I was using Virtual Box a few years ago, and as I recall it got regular updates. Sometimes too frequent for my taste. Now I'm stuck on Hyper-V at work. It's great for Windows guests. And I can create and activate(!) as many Windows guests as I like. Other than that, Hyper-V sucks for Linux guests. V...
[16:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:13] <exec> 08└─flat files FTW!
[16:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:15] <exec> 08└─Can Oracle make up for this loss by getting new customers to move ONTO Oracle? Possibly from something even much worse? Is there anything worse?
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─The future is no new customers. I'm afraid Oracle is acting like a mainframe company. Only decline lies that way. Their pricing structure is insane.
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─Just how many dicks have you seen to be able to state that with authority?
[16:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─Ask for a share of kickbacks.
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─Reporting the truth about what he does is not "hating," you complete jackass.
[16:09:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is expensive. Every dollar spent for a doctor and care comes right out of profit. That's completely against the American version of healthcare, which are huge buildings, healthcare logo on top, filled with desk hens fluttering from desk to desk, but not a stethoscope in sight. Its a Busi...
[16:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 2957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:20] <exec> 08└─After half a dozen hospital visits in the US, it will be crystal clear to anyone who pays attention that they put money 1st, patients and health a distant 2nd. Joe Merhcant's experience is all too common. They make a lot more money treating an emergency than doing a little extra prevention. My own s...
[16:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─That's great, but what are you going to do if you need heart surgery? Or some time in ICU? All that money you spent in the cash only clinics won't count towards your deducible, so there is little reason to use the cash-only clinics if you think you might need to use your insurance.
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:24] <exec> 08└─Experiment: Go in with insurance and pay for a tetanus shot for one of your children. Then go in and pay for the same treatment for your other child with cash at the exact same facility. I guarantee you the two bills won't look remotely similar and I'll buy you a beer if the cash bill comes to more...
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─Bean counters have been over rated for decades now. A hospital needs to at least break even, or make a little profit. But a hospital should never be ABOUT profit. The United States took a wrong turn somewhere. Damned near everything about a hospital is overpriced, to pay for Big Pharma, "insurance",...
[16:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─That's where things like an HSA and cash-only facilities that are willing to finance the debt for you (most are from what I hear) come in. It's still going to be massively less expensive.
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I'd rather skip the socialist bits. I haven't put a whole lot of thought into the matter but I'm absolutely certain it can be done a hell of a lot more efficiently without government involvement and the always accompanying corruption lending a hand. Pretty much anything can.
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─See above re: highly actionable
[16:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone running their business poorly then. Would be nice if it were easy to check things like quality of care and shop around.
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─The government isn't to blame for your problems, it is the insurance industry and the for-profit healthcare industry. I realize this goes against the Libertarian fantasy of angelic men and businesses that strictly follow optimal financial processes. There is no cure for this insanity no matter how m...
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─You realize there isn't some magical aspect to private business that let's people shop around right? Large hospitals aren't required to rip people off and not display common pricing. That is an effect of private money grubbing assholes not government regulation. If you bring up ER mandates, well the...
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─See reality, private businesses do what they want. Unless you're suggesting regulation would solve that little problem ;)
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─We shall start with you. The US sterilized populations before, sounds like we should do it again,step up little troll.
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:47] <exec> 08└─As always, I completely agree. The optimist in me thinks somehow good people would run such a progressive system. Trouble is: we're running out of good people. Maybe that's it: how can we get the system set up and staffed by good people only? No time to think about it...
[16:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:39] <exec> 08└─Seems like every time a Republican president fixes a Democrat's economic fuckup,
[16:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:41] <exec> 08└─Damn you're a triggered bit of trash. Incel alert!
[16:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:51] <exec> 08└─How about we just purge that entire area in fire and be done with it once and for all.
[16:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess given that IANAMD, I really have no idea the relative complexity of various organs. All that I really know is that feminism has assured me that the womb is the most complex body part evar, involving mystical, fourth dimensional metaphysical... stuff. And truth be told, we need lungs, h...
[16:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:59] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the kind of person who comes in here making gook jokes as an AC has about as much understanding of East Asian phonology and linguistic diffusion as something I'd scrape off the bottom of my shoe.
[16:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─Huh? Do you think I don't know what pivot tables are? A pivot table is NOT a spreadsheet. Pivot tables are functions found in various analytical tools including spreadsheet programs, databases, and other data analysis tools. If you know what you're doing, you can simulate many of their functions pre...
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I am pretty sure leaving MS is like leaving the mafia. They tend to take it personally.
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─He made a 7 million row excel table. Started calculating. After 15 years, the guy who made the malfeasance was on his death bed and wanted to clear his conscience and murmured to the priest AB2934490 which was the cell containing his dark secret. So they finally could hit control alt del.
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─> But Microsoft will use money to oust her That's a crowded market they are entering. Pick a number to oust a cinquestelle with whatever excuse. Your number is 10342 Really if this time too the axis lega/cinquestelle is controlled opposition, the rabbit hole is deeeeeeep.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─A large round object visible in the night sky using relatively unsophisticated telescopes that is not a star or moon or pidgeon.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─A large round object visible in the night sky using relatively unsophisticated telescopes that is not a star or moon or pidgeon.
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─It's aluminum. You're wrong, and in the minority.
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─There's two problems with the new label: Linguistically, a dwarf planet is a planet. But in the IAU definition, it isn't. In other words, the naming convention goes against the very rules of the language. This is in my view the main problem.Pluto already had the label “planet”, and that fact was...
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[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─The actual intent of this paper was imaging. An important thing in non-destructive archaeology. But I know in my heart, that this will be cited by every ancient aliens fucker from now until the year 10,000.
[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying this is evidence of ancient alien astronauts but...
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─Please tell me more about these ancient aliens. They sound very interesting.
[17:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─Modern Man, that is. That's a long time. Our civilization's history is only 5k years old.
[17:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:03] <exec> 08└─If those ancient alien kooks are right, then we'll soon find out that all the conspiracy theories are true! Ancient aliens, dinosaurs living in Loch Ness, Bigfoot, the media and state rigged the election for Hilary, but Russia hacked the polling stations and gave the election to Trump, 9/11 was orch...
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:05] <exec> 08└─This is backed up by hard research at MIT. https://www.zapatopi.net [zapatopi.net]
[17:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─200m to 600m is pretty much the AM broadcast band. Wonder who the Egyptian Art Bell was back then?
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not saying there were ancient aliens, but someone knew something way back in the day because the Great Pyramid originally had a tin-foil hat. It was stolen by the Romans to make swords and shields. The remains of the support structure are still visible at the top.
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:12] <exec> 08└─I hope that's the extend of today's spew of reactionary mind-destroying nonsense.
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─Without regard to CEOs, probably about as many as most people. As for CEOs, none. Given that there are some CEOs who do not act like the biggest pricks on the planet, I would speculate that the ones that act like the biggest pricks are deeply unhappy about something they are unable to fix and taking...
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─Elsewhere here someone pointed out that Oracle is a sales organization and not a tech company. I recently read that IBM is really a sales company and not a tech company. Obviously they have some bright people designing some cool hardware. And research like Watson. But what the public sees is more of...
[17:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─Reporting the truth about what he does is not "hating," you complete jackass.
[17:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─If Sinclair was too big, they could get leverage on Verizon in the future. Pai is, as usual, making the right decision for his boss. > "Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair. Disgraceful!" the president tweeted. Dudem you may want to check that Constitution t...
[17:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─Do you know why those hens are strapped to those desks instead of monitoring patients? They're RNs that are dealing with the enormous stacks of paperwork required by the government and the insurance companies for anyone to be paid for their work. That's also why you never see a doctor on the floor;...
[17:10:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─cash-only healthcare facilities
[17:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─You have no idea what first mover advantage is or why it's relevant here, do you?
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:01] <exec> 08└─I've tried this before with labwork. The cash cost is always around an order of magnitude higher.
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows what that sweet spot is; society must find it continuously. That's the whole point of a market: To find what society needs/wants and who's going to pay for it. The problem with health care (down to the very foundation) has been virtually detached from market forces, including clear line...
[17:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─That's why Socialism always collapses into dysfunctional breadlines and "re-education" gulags. Capitalism (libertarianism), in contrast, explicitly acknowledges the existence of soulless, self-serving psychopaths who are attracted to the levers and buttons of power. That's why capitalist society's a...
[17:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:08] <exec> 08└─First mover advantage. Just ask Friendster about it. That's why we're all Egyptian.
[17:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:10] <exec> 08└─Also, leave it to you leftists to imply forced sterilization. How about we just stop subsidizing stupid people; help those who will help themselves. How about we offer tax breaks for voluntary sterilization, or make it a requirement for a UBI? If you want me to pay for you, then you've got to give m...
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:05] <exec> 08└─By "*You*", you could mean me. I didn't vote for Trump. But I voted for Bernie in the primaries. And I warned Democrats in the spring of 2016 that if they nominated Hillary, they would lose my vote in November, which they did. I warned that I thought there were a lot of people who were going to vote...
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─Haha, that's pretty funny! It's a catchy tune. They used to make us watch that crap in Catholic school.
[17:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:18] <exec> 08└─It may have been "defeated" in that specific location, but the island country of Madagascar has recurring outbreaks each year. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] "Madagascar typically has about 400 cases of plague each year between September and April, but...
[17:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:19] <exec> 08└─> How about we just purge that entire area in fire and be done with it once and for all. Considering the track record of Germany, Vietnam, and local spots in Japan, I'd hazard that this method isn't a permanent fix. I'd recommend gas instead, but that seems to have just moved the issue elsewhere. Ac...
[17:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:35] <exec> 08└─and the fact that most would be crushed under their own weight, you'd have a cube that measured about 680m on a side.
[17:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:37] <exec> 08└─If they collapsed tomorrow, nothing of value would be lost. Other companies' designers may have trouble figuring out who to copy next, but functionality wouldn't suffer in the slightest. Apple's contribution to GUIs are significant, but at this point, they are actually a hindrance to new ideas.
[17:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─In the US alone, more than 1,400 people are waiting for a lung transplant
[17:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:02] <exec> 08└─It's not the most complicated, but it's far from the simplest. Lungs are complex, but reasonably uniform, and they're using a pre-built scaffold, which handles a lot of the complexity. So they're probably a lot simpler. That said, I'm not sure how the handled the muscle attachments...were they creat...
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─Are you thinking he should go for a passive or active strategy for dealing with the threats? I wonder if McCaffee wrote a book or even a howto on solving problems with people you don't like in Belize.
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─What you apparently failed to grasp in my original comment is that Pivot tables are exceedingly well implemented by MS-EXCEL. You called it "Stupid" to use MS-EXCEL for this use case with no other information than you see it as an incorrect tool to use in a given situation. Sure there may be "plenty...
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[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:03] <exec> 08└─It was not a tin-foil hat. Now it all makes sense: It was a smoothing layer, for easier insertion into the Titan-Mother vagina. Think about it: a giant pile of stone with magnetic focusing properties: She was the first customer of Goop. You do not want to know how this theory perfectly fits with the...
[18:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─I have my own (slightly less crazy) theory about the pyramids. I've yet to see anybody else suggest it, so it's either revolutionary and ground-breaking, or totally stupid. Consider: 1 - The pyramids were originally capped with gold. 2 - They are aligned according to the stars and skies. 3 - When th...
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:39] <exec> 08└─Postgresql has triggers and sequences, and its a bloody sight more reliable than Oracle in my experience. Most features in Oracle are in Postgresql - implementaiton may vary, particularly where Oracle is far from standards, or just plain weird (Oracle likes weird). Its also easier to get meaningfu...
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─The shills/trolls/dummies are out in force! I sure grew up in a bubble where even the dumb people were geniuses by some of the standards around here. Now it isn't genetic, it is 100% culturally learned stupidity with lies about "free markets = freedom and democracy" wagging the fuck out of the dogs....
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─This is what REAL propaganda looks like. [npr.org]
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─They're just parroting Trump himself calling us all "haters" (just to prove we actually do have a high-school kid in the White house). And fucking Sinclair FFS...they make Fox News look like fucking Mother Jones. Yet there are some here that actually believe the likes of them somehow "balance out" t...
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─Yup, insurance can collectively bargain for cheaper prices and hospital administrators realized they can charge the people who pay directly any amount they want. It is almost guaranteed to be more expensive to fight the charges than to just pay up. Uzzy do YOU get it yet? The "free market" is not ac...
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─IMO it was obvious from the 3rd office visit where we had to wait 3+ hours past our scheduled appointment time, but they were sooooo popular and highly recommended. They definitely were running their MEDICAL PRACTICE poorly, as a business they were going gangbusters.
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─So we're still back to square one with many people unable to afford insurance, but if they can't then one health crisis and they are ruined. Great system! The best! The only metric we care about is doing gangbusters! Oh what metric? People not getting a free lunch! Hands outta my pocket bitch, die i...
[18:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─Damn boi, you just some shill account here to prop up The Might Buzzard's failing ideology? Wonder if he realizes what you're up to or if he thinks you're just a *swell* guy.
[18:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry, direct experience here. Some years ago I had a tiny problem that needed a CT scan, no insurance. They billed me for $2,800 for just the CT. I won't go into the rest. I did research and found Medicare would pay $600 for that exact same CT. Insurance companies use Medicare "Codes" and pay...
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:12] <exec> 08└─Governmental regulation makes such competition unlikely. I'll take Freedom over your Paternalism, thanks.
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─That's where things like an HSA and cash-only facilities that are willing to finance the debt for you
[18:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─Your ideology is like the Luminiferous aether, sounds reasonable when you only know a little bit about the world and really stupid once you start understanding reality. Capitalism sure does acknowledge the existence of socipaths and psychos, the only problem is that it REWARDS them! Do you even real...
[18:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:19] <exec> 08└─That's probably true except for the "forever" part. One thing that libertarianism fails to acknowledge is finite natural resources.
[18:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:21] <exec> 08└─The facts (e.g. statistics from other countries) do not agree with you. But why let that stop you? You are just here to stir of shit to get more engagement on the site, right?
[18:12:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1068 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─I took the first test too, and even allowing for the fact that I am a European, it is bullshit. Skipped the first question as it is about US healthcare costs, but seeing we have just been told that 80% of Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck, I wonder you don't all die at 65 or soon after...
[18:12:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:13] <exec> 08└─Seems like every time a Republican president fixes a Democrat's economic fuckup,
[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:17] <exec> 08└─Now I feel badly- I should have added a disclaimer: Mute audio. This tune can not be unheard. You've been warned.
[18:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:19] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, I got mine!
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:21] <exec> 08└─The more I read about the US, the more I'm reminded of the Ferengi. It seems like the US health 'industry' has been very diligent in their studies of the Rules of Acquisition. These few in particular seem to apply pretty consistently: 5 Always exaggerate your estimates. 6 Never allow (the patients')...
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─... except for the parts that aren't. Like, how less of the population proportionally is in relative poverty than 50 years ago, and how absolute poverty is a statistical outlier in the US. Like, how social services are more accessible and better funded than they were 50 years ago. Like, how a large...
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─Wow, I've never realized how much I also want you sedated until you mentioned it! :P
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─"...Deadly Ebola..." As opposed to what? The friendly kind that buys you a beer and flirts with your sister?
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─Different countries have different laws (written or otherwise) and Google been censoring stuff to accommodate those laws for years. Agreed, thinking this is something NEW Google is doing just demonstrates the blind-spot Americans have for our own accepted censorship. Google has been censoring stuff...
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily the oil and/or car industry, but short sellers willing to do anything not to lose their huge bet on Tesla failing. When the last problems at Tesla story came out I did a pretty deep dive into the allegations. While I was digging around I found some pretty compelling evidence that the...
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─Okay, first off -- please calm down. I was replying to an AC whom I assume was not you. Someone who was ruder, and thus my responses for voiced more strongly against said AC, not against you. Second, I said a 7-million row SPREADSHEET is "stupid." (And, I'll stand by my point that it IS a stupid thi...
[18:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:57] <exec> 08└─Whether or not Pluto is a planet is not a question of scientific fact - its a matter of arbitrary definition. Its the difference between claiming, against all evidence, that the sun goes around the earth, or just arguing about what to call the real model (I mean, it's not exactly heliocentric...) Sc...
[18:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry but if Planet 9/10/X/N+1 is not called "Rupert" then it is an insult to the memory of Douglas Adams.
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[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of trying to get the Men with Guns to re-distribute the rights over someone else's work, how about you and your ilk try producing your own content according to the terms that you desire? You want to use someone else's work? Get that person to agree; usually, money is persuasive.
[19:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:57] <exec> 08└─why it doesn't bother to get my older music via bittorrent.
[19:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─What is clear is that the Democrats buy votes by promising to steal other people's money and re-distribute it.
[19:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─I admire your pure stance wrt the right to someone else's work. Now stop using the Roman alphabet altogether until you get the Romans to agree. I am confident the world will not hear from you any longer. A win-win if you ask me.
[19:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:04] <exec> 08└─Pirating old recordings is an immoral act. After this law has passed, buying new issues of old recordings is a VERY immoral act. I guess we need a new generation of artists monkeying the previous work. Which is nothing new, as most of those artists freely helped themselves of existing ideas for thei...
[19:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:07] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, they agree to my usage. Certainly, there doesn't appear to be a good way for anyone to enforce a restriction of my usage; in contrast, the music industry has persuaded the Men with Guns to help them enforce their will.
[19:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:09] <exec> 08└─> That same mistake I do not believe this word means what you think it means.
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[19:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:14] <exec> 08└─Having recently been inspired by the CLASSICS Act which you sponsor, I hope you will agree that state pensions should similarly be extended into the realm of parasitism. My proposed extension would ensure descendants and estates of past state employees can continue to demand revenue for employment p...
[19:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─OP gets "Score:2, Informative" for baseless, hysterical, hyperbolic claim; the countering AC gets "Score:-1, Troll". Bias much, SoylentNews? My hand is forced: Time to start re-posting downmodded comments. ----- What is clear is that the Democrats buy votes by promising to steal other people's money...
[19:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 6317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:18] <exec> 08└─I found this approximately two decades ago (9/18/2000) on the green site. [slashdot.org] I did not write it. It has since disappeared from the intarweb tubes. A few years ago I have posted it to TechDirt a couple of times. One [techdirt.com] Two [techdirt.com] It is quasi on topic. It's good to be a...
[19:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:21] <exec> 08└─Have facts to the contrary, start posting such. As far as I can see, it is a black eye for our senators and congress people all around, and a win for recording companies as a whole. While the posting does lack citations some subjects are just so plain as to not require them.
[19:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:23] <exec> 08└─Instead of trying to get the Men with Guns to re-distribute the rights over someone else's work, how about you and your ilk try producing your own content according to the terms that you desire?
[19:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:25] <exec> 08└─I do not like how uncomfortable I am reading this and how realistic it sounds...
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─As you say, "some subjects are just so plain".
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─Some things are better at resonating but the pyramids would resonate somewhat at some frequency just because they exist. Saying that they were designed to do so at that frequency is a chicken/egg issue. Egyptians knew stuff but not all the stuff. Before long you will be like that guy who says the na...
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─this will be cited by every ancient aliens fucker from now until the year 10,000.
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─Please see the great Star Gate Documentary, along with the awesome series of Serious Sam games based on a true story. They are outta this world.
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─Aluminum foil hats don't block the mind rays like tin foil would, it focuses them!
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─you will be like that guy who says the nazca lines had metal in them and were fractal antennas
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─Gold in a desert environment seems like it would get abraded and lose much of its reflectiveness pretty quickly for being so soft. Was the area as desertified back then though? Probably not.
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─Some things are better at resonating but the pyramids would resonate somewhat at some frequency just because they exist.
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 2205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─"See the thing is, the Pharaoh doesn't control the Nile, he's not really a god. He can't make it flood or not, it's all just a show. Ever notice how it floods every year anyway? Pharaoh is just some guy and not even the top guy. He is just a figurehead, the face of the government that is really bein...
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─No no no, see, all the metal was taken by the conquistadors ages ago. Because it was gold or silver or something.
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─Don't be so crass as to call them games. They are interactive history teaching tools made to teach documentary caliber content to the short attention spanned youth who will repeat history if they don't learn.
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─Fun tidbit the sphincter is named after the Sphinx. No one knew why but this might be the overheating dildo we've been waiting for.
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─Good thing it wasn't some kind of metal with actual value, like copper. (not British police)
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─I posit that if you start this study looking for a resonant frequency, you're gonna find one, somewhere. It's a regular shape, some wavelength or another will concentrate energy in interesting places.
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─"There are pyramids in my head. There's one underneath my bad. And my lady's getting cranky."
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─Yes. "compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area. Compensation can cover up either real or imagin...
[19:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:54] <exec> 08└─Oracle, at least their PeopleSoft product, has since tools 9.56 dumped the menu system in favor of "fluid" with sliding menus from the side of the screen that drill down rather than the classic dropdown menus. They "compliment" these with tiles (favorites). From the presentation I saw in Vegas by th...
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:12] <exec> 08└─House of Mouse can buy Star Wars, Marvel, Fox, AT&T can go merger happy and buy DirecTV and Time-Warner, Comcast goes on a merger frenzy, etc. Only a few mergers get shot down for regulatory reasons and it is notable that this much smaller one did and wonder if the only other notable thing about it...
[19:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:26] <exec> 08└─It says moms die and suffer in the US. Maybe they are assuming the US is hell.
[19:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:28] <exec> 08└─Take a look around you. Everything you see is contoured by the elite who own 80% of everything, and your "competition" concept is laughably naive. Git educated son.
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:30] <exec> 08└─I see you're not even aware of the words you use. Cull: to reduce or control the size of (something, such as a herd) by removal (as by hunting) of especially weaker animals; also : to hunt or kill (animals) as a means of population control The town issued hunting licenses in order to cull the...
[19:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I wish we could go back to the days of company towns and private police forces where the rich guy could literally own the whole town. Such sweet wonderful days those were! You are an insufferable idiot fighting the "socialist boogeyman" because you aren't bright enough to see beyond your bra...
[19:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:34] <exec> 08└─Additionally, many medical problems need to be treated *immediately*. You don't have time to "shop around", presuming you are sufficiently mobile to do so. When an ambulance delivers you somewhere, you can't change your mind and ask to be delivered somewhere else. (And an ambulance ride across the s...
[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─That's not strictly true. Many experimental tools were first used in US medicine...though possibly only in the hospitals associated with an engineering college, I'd need to check that. However, it is broadly true...depending on which country you are comparing it with, and which medical specialty.
[19:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─No, the "advantage" of Medicare is that it pools risk. With everyone in one pool, the average cost per person goes down, because the risk is spread across the entire population, it ends some types of rent seeking, and because there is only one "plan." True, some people will pay more, but we are alre...
[19:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:41] <exec> 08└─You prove it by competing in the market place. May the best pool win.
[19:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:43] <exec> 08└─The point is to have a culture and a legal framework in place that allows for at least the possibility of competition. Under such a system, it doesn't matter if control over society's resources collects under a few elite; those few will have proven themselves good stewards of society's resources. Th...
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:45] <exec> 08└─The Free Market is NOT about immediate results; it's about iteration; it's about evolution by variation and selection. People talk about their experiences, and thereby shape other people's future decisions. People pay insurance companies to do that research for them in advance.
[19:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─If you cull, the problems go away. Yet, there's no need to do this involuntarily; attrition will do.
[19:13:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─Dumbass, "adjusted for inflation" means individual workers today are objectively better off than they were in 1978.
[19:13:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tekk [5704] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─They're as good as they were *in 1978* *with respect to inflation. A lot of things have outpaced inflation, such as the cost of education, housing, and healthcare.
[19:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─It's not really that simple, and not really about financial literacy. A few decades ago the accountant for the company I worked for retired. She was definitely NOT financially illiterate. She understood statistics. She ensured that the company followed the tax laws. Etc. She was quite competent. She...
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dilbert [444] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─99.12% of statistics are made up on the spot.
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─But after a few years of being in office, everything was well and truly fucked up. I know I'm not the only one who was on unemployment for damn near 2 years. I voted for Obama, but he was a liar, and everything sucked during those years, and it's still pretty shitty.
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─Nah, don't want to end up eating zoo animals and have bread lines. You can always move to Venezuela though. Let us know how it goes.
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that's not true. Yes, housing costs have risen, and they are a basic need. But we've also doubled the average amount of living space per person since the 1970s, so people are paying more for bigger houses. But costs for food and clothing (the other basic essentials) have plummeted in past...
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─What brought about such insanity? Or is your name indicative of being a North Korea plant? Hopeful, crazy, and insanely dedicated to making the world worse?
[19:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:02] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the consequences of 2000-2008 with the war profiteering and insane debt we heaped on just so we could blow up Iraq for no reason. I feel safer already!!! /s Obama was a liar and deserves scorn, but don't pile the blame on the wrong administration.
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like financial illiteracy to me, regardless of her previous occupation.
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─Like, how less of the population proportionally is in relative poverty than 50 years ago, and how absolute poverty is a statistical outlier in the US.
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 3733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─First, obviously a lot of these trends have to do with the top 10% or 1% or 0.1% or whatever taking a much larger piece of economic gains in the past half-century. Obviously. But the "paycheck to paycheck" thing is absolutely not a "poor person" phenomenon exclusively. I've had friends and colleague...
[19:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:33] <exec> 08└─Unless you live on unclaimed land and don't pay taxes, you are supporting a corrupt and overreaching government. So am I, and everyone else here. You have a few options: 1. Pack your bags and leave society. 2. Revolution. 3. Try to change the system from within. Google isn't really in a position to...
[19:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─The employee outcry would be happening inside the company, not outside for you to see. Walking out is a last resort; you lose any power you may have to influence decisions.
[19:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:58] <exec> 08└─>I don't know what is going on inside that company but I think something is rotten, the cracks are starting to show, and distracting from that is becoming more and more difficult requiring weirder and weirder things to happen. Doesn't Tesla use some kind of stack ranking system and fire their "low p...
[19:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:40] <exec> 08└─inclusiveness - oh boy here we go How dare they try to protect the future of their project by not acting like assholes!
[19:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:45] <exec> 08└─Whether or not Pluto is a planet is not a question of scientific fact - its a matter of arbitrary definition. Its the difference between claiming, against all evidence, that the sun goes around the earth, or just arguing about what to call the real model (I mean, it's not exactly heliocentric...)
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[20:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:52] <exec> 08└─Uh oh, I ear a bunch of corn puns coming our way!
[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:54] <exec> 08└─* grabs popcorn *
[20:09:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 6317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:12] <exec> 08└─I found this approximately two decades ago (9/18/2000) on the green site. [slashdot.org] I did not write it. It has since disappeared from the intarweb tubes. A few years ago I have posted it to TechDirt a couple of times. One [techdirt.com] Two [techdirt.com] It is quasi on topic. It's good to be a...
[20:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:19] <exec> 08└─They've developed all manner of systems for dealing with it.
[20:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:21] <exec> 08└─Republicans are the most corrupt? Nope. Not the way I see it. OP gave his opinion, and I gave mine.
[20:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:23] <exec> 08└─No, the rightful author are ded, they cannot express agreement more than mr. John "Imagine there's no heaven so where the fuck am I" Lennon.
[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─That's why clear rules of ownership and contractual obligation are so important as the foundation of a Free society.
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─The Indians for the concept and the Arabs for the graphics of 1 and 0 would want a word with you, sir. Then of course you must channel the spirit of a couple mathematicians who came up with the binary system. Boole came later.
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:30] <exec> 08└─The proper stance for any self respecting citizen is to belittle their lazy ineffective servants called politicians no matter the color. The problem with your post, is that you said the democrats, while the topic shows reps stealing money from people by making them pay for cultural assets. Those son...
[20:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:32] <exec> 08└─The clear rules of ownership are muddied by copyright. It's one of the reason why your phone is not yours.
[20:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:34] <exec> 08└─I don't like it either. Sounds like the plan is lagging, only an year and a half to go.
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─Paying for a federal spending increase with a tax cut for the rich sounds an awful lot like buying votes with the public's money. And, bailing out the farmers impacted by Trumps dumb-ass trade war with taxpayer money also sounds like wealth redistribution. Is there anything else the Republicans did...
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─That is fine, but if people regard your opinion as trolling whataboutism then expect to get modded down. Or do we need to make a safe space where your opinions are respected by everybody and no one is allowed to criticize them? You realize anyone can click the + button and see what you wrote yes? Ma...
[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─But you will have to develop your own systems. Using theirs is infringing!
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:43] <exec> 08└─The rest of your reply is pretty much drivel that does nothing to help build a stable, prosperous society.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─That's the deal.
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Was there anything done this week by republicans democrats wouldn't have done themselves? The uniparty achieves it's goals while distracting gullible fools with political theater and newsreel drama. There is no difference.
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─The rules for you using other people's work seems muddled to you, but it's not; you just don't like them. What is clear is that you are free to make your own content and then apply whatever rules you want. Start building the world you want to see, rather than trying to deconstruct what others have b...
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it depends on your definition of corruption. E.g., Senator Feinstein *could* have defended voting for a copyright bill because it protected companies in her constituency. As far as I can tell, that didn't even occur to her. She voted for it an did not explain her reasons to me, one of her c...
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─Mod parent insightful!!!
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─I had heard that they were capped with electrum, which was some sort of alloy, but a lot harder than gold. Also, the area wasn't as dry then as not, but it wasn't lush, either. And the Sahara was just off to the West. Wind can carry sand a long way. That said, something burnished may not be reflecti...
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Resonate frequency ranges. And very wide ranges at that unless we're talking about steel structures. The article proposes the pyramids had an unusually narrow frequency response range. So much so that it's likely it was constructed as such by design. Worth noting this isn't that odd. Nilometers [wik...
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─I don't remember if I trumpeted this particular annoyance yet, but it sounds like an opportunity for another security PSA. SMS is not 2FA. "2FA" services like Authy are also not 2FA. Get a physical 2FA key. Barring that, use a trusted authenticator app.
[20:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─"Cover Oregon" When the site was allegedly launched, Oracle placed ten million dollars worth of state-paid ads that said nothing other than "Cover Oregon" without mentioning anything about insurance. The ads didn't even mention the URL. When I tried to shop for insurance with Safari I was bluntly in...
[20:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:11] <exec> 08└─As a network guy, I was dragged into an issue last week with an Oracle DB unable to connect to a website after the remote site was recently moved to Azure. After analyzing wireshark traces, it turns out the version of Oracle DB we use doesn't support HTTPS SNI headers. If it was something like Windo...
[20:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:14] <exec> 08└─I figured a good way to locate all the worlds tech hubs would be to list some multinationals at Soggy Jobs Oracle has shops in many national capitals
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:16] <exec> 08└─Virtualbox....they didn't create it, they didn't market it, and I'm not sure that they've improved it since they bought it.
[20:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─I think you're thinking too hard. The simpler explanation is that most people are bullies. They just haven't got the resources to act on it, or maybe they are deterred by the fear of losing all their friends. Well, Ellison's got the resources, and as long as he's rich he'll always be able to make ne...
[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but in a way the government is to blame. They set up the system enabling the insurance companies to take over the hospitals, and they manage it in such a was as to ensure that the insurance companies remain in control. That said, I can't see a workable system that isn't run by government. Som...
[20:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─No, YOURS is a tired line of reasoning. Like these base principles will magically work out with complex human behaviors and artificial constructs such as labor and service markets.
[20:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's a good point. I saw a couple hilarious (or at least I try to laugh here because otherwise I will be consumed by despair) pieces on Common Dreams and Alternet reporting this. Here's one: Reporting on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Plan Makes the Media Forget How Math Works [alternet.org...
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─That wasn't a $2 bag of saline solution. It needed to be sterile, special storage, etc. I'd guess that $50 would have been a fair price, but I don't know the details of handling and sterility requirements. And formulation. Still, they use a lot of them, so my guess is $50. For a one-off $200 would b...
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─Round here we call that the "fuck you got mine" attitude. Entirely un-Christian (for those of you claiming the Murricans deserve to be here cause reasons) and anti-community. Bigots such as yourself are ruining this country and blaming everyone else. Grow a pair, educate yourself, stop being a moron...
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─While you *may* be properly attributing the GP's attitude, the tax exempt status of health care is a part of history. That *is* the government subsidizing the insurance companies, whatever the reason for the event. (I'm tempted to claim "historical accident" rather than plan, but I've no proof.) How...
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but while an individual cannot die and suffer, members of a group can do so. Different members may do the dieing and suffering. I suspect, however, that your criticism is correct, because many members of that group both die and suffer, though not in that order.
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, so then we can have a one world government that is proven to generate philosopher-kings. Perhaps even kings with healing hands who are angelic in nature! These wise angels governing over us would also gladly allow alternatives to flourish, and it would never occur to their pure hearts to use ant...
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─> I know I'm not the only one who was on unemployment for damn near 2 years. > I voted for Obama, but he was a liar, and everything sucked during those years, and it's still pretty shitty. I see you spent all your spare time learning about the Great Depression, and how long it took to get out of it....
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─TLDR: Get tracphone. Yearly cost for emergency and incidental family needs calls: $100 If you need any of the other phone crap for work or your business - the work or business should provide and pay for it.
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the cute kind [knowyourmeme.com], I suppose.
[20:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:14] <exec> 08└─1990 IIRC I am completely convinced that huge power savings would result from source code refactoring Consider that many modern ISAs have instructions to defeat the cache for the specific reason that data caches slo down some kinds of memory access patterns It has also been convincingly demonstrated...
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─Some devices permit firmware development Google provides a list of suitable devices that has never been updated since 1.0
[20:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─Six years ago She turned up the procedure when searching for a way to improve battery life
[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─For the artificial womb, you need a liquid environment and the ability to exchange nutrients, hormones, etc. with the fetus. The actual "womb" can be a relatively simple machine. Maybe handling of the umbilical cord is the hardest part? For a lab-grown organ, you are using the patient's own cells or...
[20:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:33] <exec> 08└─artificial womb (aka uterus) != lab-grown uterus The first is a machine that contains and grows a fetus. It does not have to be biological in nature. It might look something like this [soylentnews.org] (images are included in the open access paper [nature.com]).
[20:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:35] <exec> 08└─While your objection has validity, it's not exactly related to the article being commented upon.
[20:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─I have no position on TSLA. But why don't they fund long-term projects with long-term debt, instead of convertible bonds that they have to constantly roll over? Jeez. First they play a confidence game and then they complain when pros move in who try to tear them down.
[20:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 1948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:01] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you have said except the part about calling anything stupid. Sure, there are people who will try to put a square peg in a round hole and use a hammer when it doesn't fit, and I have of course seen things in my career that makes me shake my head. I have seen people use Excel f...
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─OpenWrt has long been used in Linksys routers such as the circa 2015 2002 WRT1900ACS WRT54G [wikipedia.org], among many others.
[20:19:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 1103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:17] <exec> 08└─Well, as someone who has actually worked with historical materials and archives, I'm pretty familiar with how things that seem "important" to us often get randomly discarded. To a different person or to a different time in history, a "historical artifact" may just be an annoying piece of junk to thr...
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[21:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:46] <exec> 08└─Bourbon works for Bender. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a pot of molasses getting ready for the yeast argh.
[21:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:47] <exec> 08└─It isn't "powered by popcorn" as TFA suggests. It is powered by the HEAT which pops the corn. (Unless they have some other way I missed.) Is the mechanical energy you get even close to the heat energy you used to pop the corn? There are other design problems: Nevermind that (as TFA says) once popped...
[21:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:50] <exec> 08└─>>> Is the mechanical energy you get even close to the heat energy you used to pop the corn? That may not be the most important consideration. Imagine a machine where you need a certain impulse to perform a function - say, a punch to create a hole. If you have large quantities of electric energy ava...
[21:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals The term "Arabic numerals" is controversial, primarily because some think the only alternative is Roman numerals and thus the name implies that base-10 positional notation was invented in Arabia, when in fact it is a Hindu invention.
[21:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─>The rest of your reply is pretty much drivel that does nothing to help build a stable, prosperous society. How many centuries before the big rightful guys (whom you are handing all the control to) start doing that? Don't tell me they are doing their best because it is demonstrably not so. Never min...
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─How about we just purge that entire area in fire and be done with it once and for all. It seems to be some kind of hotbed for copyright extension. Everytime it pops up it stays around for months and then whenever it goes away it comes back again. Clearly we are never dealing with the core issue here...
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─LOL, an ad hominem to a bot. Shall we examine assertions instead? Natural right: what goes into a meatbag's brain is HIS. He uses it for nefarious purposes? he goes to jail for it. Copyright: EvilCorp PAYS DJs to have a song hammered into the brain of the defenseless youngsters, using side channels...
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Is it a mistake to mistake mistake, now? Oh dear
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you're referring to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─Could just be p-hacking. You could take literally anything and find something strange or interesting or weird about it. This shard of glass refracts light into a triangle if you hold it five feet away. This toast looks like Jesus. This lake is shaped like an eye. This tree reflects infrared light in...
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─> from the who-knew-sms-was-still-a-thing? dept. SMS are usually free, and compatible across just about every cellphone on the planet. They are regulated for privacy, unless someone has enough interest in you to get a judge to agree. Did i miss a specific reason why I shouldn't be using SMS ? (don't...
[21:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, it is self-selecting because people who desire power seek it out and the people who won't act like tyrants are the ones who avoid the situation in the first place. Most people are decent and the busy bodies do their best to get in a position to meddle.
[21:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─Never before have we had the blessing of a technology that allows the president, in his very own words, to express to the entire world just how unthinkingly stupid, naive, short sighted, petty and vindictive he actually is. Available for all to read. A permanent monument to the monumentally stupid....
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:54] <exec> 08└─And yet all the existing better systems have strong government involvement in the form of single payer. In spite of your certainty, no one has hit on the better system without gov involvement, so it's high time you do put a whole lot of thought into the matter and show us the way. Save us TMB, you'r...
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─If I had a UK bond, I'm sure I could liquidate it within a week.
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─Ever try to get a refund for preventable complications, such as many of the deaths and injuries in the other article? We can cite another rule: 1 Once you have their money, you never give it back.
[21:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Hillary promised absolutely nothing to the voters, she chased after GOP and Independent voters that despise her and failed to offer the progressive wing of the party anything. And enough of us either didn't vote at all or voted for somebody else. Being the party that's not quite as bad...
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between relative and absolute poverty? How are they measured?
[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:17] <exec> 08└─That's the thing. The issue with wages isn't the immigrants, the number of jobs that they can do is relatively small compared with what somebody born here can do. There used to be many janitors in the US with PhDs in things like nuclear physics because they didn't have the language skills for better...
[21:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─we've also doubled the average amount of living space per person since the 1970s, so people are paying more for bigger houses.
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─More likely gambling addiction.
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─Buzzy, you're probably the dumbest person I've ever encountered. Well, there is aristarchus, so make it 2nd dumbest. We don't have a competitive employment market and morons like you are a large part of why we don't. Even now when unemployment is so low that companies are lowering their standards to...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─That's probably true, but it's not the poor that are making the decisions about how and what to build for housing. And likely they aren't even a consideration as they can't afford to buy what the developers want to sell. The whole thing is a massive ponzi scheme and thanks to the incompetence of all...
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─Precisely when has a Republican ever fixed an economy that a Democrat messed up? It's been a bare minimum of 50 years since that happened. Nixon fucked up the economy that Carter subsequently got blamed for. I suppose you could argue that Clinton caused the dot com bust, but W didn't really fix that...
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─I mean at Present Value, of the principal and remaining interest payments. What you are describing is called a Certificate of Deposit in the US. Those don't usually have paper certificates to be traded easily, but we could still come to a legal agreement, where I pay you a discount on the maturity v...
[21:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Tesla Employee's Lawyer Claims His Client Was Effectively "SWATted" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not really familiar with what you are talking about. Is that something like there is a constant churn of N% so only the cream of the crop stays? Yeah I mean that wouldn't destroy morale or anything.
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[22:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─I want the government to fast track things for me, but i obviously don't have enough money or political power (collectively, i have only one vote plus what i can talk my wife, son and daughter into, if i can). Gotta get me more money, power or votes. Gonna go see me some Russians (shit! Did my hands...
[22:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:49] <exec> 08└─I guess. I still remember days past, when we had real competition in our telecoms services. At first in phone service, after the AT&T breakup, then in internet service, because that (slowly) ran on the liberalized phone service. But because he is in Trump's government, are we going to see partisan f...
[22:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:51] <exec> 08└─Hey ! How about giving faster access to conduits ? It would be wonderful if the place didn't look like a third world country, with overloaded poles sensitive to wind, snow, and all kinds of critters. There are many places in the US served by underground facilities, so it looks like it's not an unkno...
[22:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't read TFA, but i pictured it powered by heat AND a piston that was driven by the popcorn popping. :) Yeah, couldn't be bothered with TFA.
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─Need i say more?
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─The DNC is terrible in its own way and has supported shitty copyright updates as well, but if your first reaction is to play Whatabouts Them People then you need to take a step back and breathe. There is quite a bit of difference, and quite a bit of overlap between the two parties. Don't equivocate,...
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─MOD THIS SOYBOY DOWN! Don't stop till we reach -aleph!
[22:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─And then do what when the incumbent claims that your work is too similar to their work?
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─That is funny, I was thinking the same thing about every single one of your posts. All you've got is the sentiment of pro-freedom.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─What systems might these be, specifically?
[22:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:06] <exec> 08└─Cunts, wankers, corrupt little bitches, fucktards, greedy assholes, authoritarian shits, yeah I think we're good now.
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─largely good Music Modernization Act
[22:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 1211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─I have my own (slightly less crazy) theory about the pyramids. I've yet to see anybody else suggest it, so it's either revolutionary and ground-breaking, or totally stupid. Consider: 1 - The pyramids were originally capped with gold. 2 - They are aligned according to the stars and skies. 3 - When th...
[22:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:48] <exec> 08└─I'd say that it 'cheapens' the presidency. Twitter is a platform that is designed to lack depth. When a president posts something, you shouldn't have to wonder if they typed it up while taking a shit.
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─While that is a very promising concept, indeed, it simply cannot be generalized (enough). It only works for procedures where what needs to be done and how is known beforehand with high confidence, and there is no significant time pressure. Then - and only then - patients can ask for a definite price...
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─That is what we have now genius. Technically if you can secure the funding you are able to create just about any business you'd like. You're 100% free to do so, just find the $millions to even get on the same level as your competition. Sadly this system also allows for the shady few assholes to corn...
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry, TFA was about the U.S., so that's what I was speaking to. Maybe trends are different in the UK. I could look up stats, but I'm busy with other things at the moment... but obviously (I agree with you) trends might be different.
[22:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─But his simplistic wisdom just RESONATES with a certain segment of the population. TMB really doesn't wanna see the Venn diagram of people who mod him up and people who support Trump. He considers himself a liberal apparently, and sadly compared to the general political climate in the US I'd have to...
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─I think you've got that backward. Whether or not Pluto is a planet IS a question of scientific fact;
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[23:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:55] <exec> 08└─Feds don't have that kind of authority. All they could do is tie some funding to that condition.
[23:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:56] <exec> 08└─Pretty much how it's always done: "Fed will pay XX% if you fit these design criteria. You have the right to refuse and pay the full bill."
[23:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:58] <exec> 08└─Yup, just clarifying.
[23:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:01] <exec> 08└─Forcing a new player to wait 6 weeks per request for a Comcast etc. to get around to taking care of it is simply a death sentence. Everyone knows that. This is absolutely the right call. We've all heard the stories of entrenched players screwing with the lines of newcomers. I feel for customers i...
[23:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:03] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[23:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:05] <exec> 08└─The term comes from my having seen a slo-mo movie of a house been flattened as a result of an atomic bomb test. After speaking with Robert and Tracy today, I emailed them the following to explain why for many years I flatly refused to have anything to do with agency recruiters. That turned out to be...
[23:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:08] <exec> 08└─The Green Site reported that whenever AT&T installs FiOS they cut the local loop off at the pole. That's just wrong: Local Loop POTS will still work in the event of a natural disaster or national emergency.
[23:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:10] <exec> 08└─His actual plan is to let private industry take care of it, then for their investments to be recouped by charging tolls on what are now free-of-charge roads and bridges. I Am Absolutely Serious.
[23:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:12] <exec> 08└─Considering they're no longer battery backed I'd say they're about as useless as VOIP when the power goes down.
[23:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─OH YEAH? Haha Buzzy buzz at it again. Trying to clarify things. Sheesh, well all I have to say to that is thanks?
[23:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─> That same mistake I do not believe this word means what you think it means.
[23:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Having recently been inspired by the CLASSICS Act which you sponsor, I hope you will agree that state pensions should similarly be extended into the realm of parasitism. My proposed extension would ensure descendants and estates of past state employees can continue to demand revenue for employment p...
[23:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:22] <exec> 08└─This attempt to redistribute rights is being made by the Men with Guns. Unfortunately for them, most people are more interested in distribution of content (which continues unabated) rather than rights.
[23:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 2102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:23] <exec> 08└─PROVE IT JACKASS ! I'm a Realist, look at both sides and make and educated decision. To prove it, the optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says the glass is half empty. The realist says shite for brains you got the wrong glass. Do you like paying 18-24% of your income so the "Coke Bro...
[23:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:26] <exec> 08└─"Let the feedback from the community guide your method of communication." Changing views for community acceptance (vs. non-fallacious counterpoint) is called an echo chamber. Disagree. Changing wording and presentation to avoid getting whapped by people who don't like people being jerks on the foru...
[23:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:02] <exec> 08└─Missed the obvious one: That's just the right resonant frequency for the grain stored inside the pyramid, according to some lunatic now in charge of buildings.
[23:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:07] <exec> 08└─Why do you use the SJW pronoun "they"? The president is an individual, not a group, and always a male. The word you were looking for is "he".
[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:08] <exec> 08└─Imagine what would be happening if #CrookedHillary had managed to successfully rig the election.
[23:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:10] <exec> 08└─Why did you get so triggered by the word "they"? Do you think there should be only one Approved Way to say everything? Shakespeare used "they" in this way, so I don't know what you're sobbing about.
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:13] <exec> 08└─I thought the word he was looking for was "dumbass".
[23:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:15] <exec> 08└─Holy fuck! So that's what the great nation of America has become.
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:51] <exec> 08└─The Free Market is NOT about immediate results; it's about iteration; it's about evolution by variation and selection. People talk about their experiences, and thereby shape other people's future decisions. People pay insurance companies to do that research for them in advance.
[23:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─There's no way for you draw the conclusion.
[23:14:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, but computers are much cheaper. Myself, I live in a secondhand mainframe I picked up cheap, and I eat Android tablets. Much cheaper than they were in 1978. Stop whinging you people and adapt to the times.
[23:15:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 3733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─First, obviously a lot of these trends have to do with the top 10% or 1% or 0.1% or whatever taking a much larger piece of economic gains in the past half-century. Obviously. But the "paycheck to paycheck" thing is absolutely not a "poor person" phenomenon exclusively. I've had friends and colleague...
[23:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─Venezuela is as much an indictment of "socialism" (which right-wingers never bother to properly define so I have no idea what they mean by this word) as Somalia is an indictment of libertarianism. There's a vast space of possible societies that exist between those two examples of failed states. When...
[23:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:21] <exec> 08└─"Don't have children" is fundamentally good advice.
[23:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:23] <exec> 08└─I did. There are thousands of houses for sale around the US in the sub $20k range. Most are fixers, but a couple of year of fixing was enough to make it rentable and also to get a loan for an even better house.
[23:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:26] <exec> 08└─http://gflec.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Finlit_paper_16_F2_singles.pdf [gflec.org] So what you are saying is that most of the world is financially illiterate except americans because you think some test is bullshit? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─Most of America is not in San Francisco. I don't know any H1Bs, besides, the consensus here said they were a good thing after trumpf cutback on them.
[23:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─With diligent testing effort like this, the CIA will eventually get the Ebola formula right. Next stop: Atlanta.
[23:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:30] <exec> 08└─It's what this thread is 'bout, and it was in your comment.
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