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[00:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yummy - 06New Whale Species Identified Using Genetic Evidence - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:16] <exec> 08└─Japanese: "New species?, can't wait to taste it!"
[00:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Good... - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:41] <exec> 08└─And that's without assistance.
[00:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Without using a single drop of fuel. - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:46] <exec> 08└─Do not forget the trips of support staff. Spare parts. Hawaii electric grid where they had to stay while being repaired And. And
[00:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:What's it to Bernie? - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:09] <exec> 08└─In West Virginia, this type of situation is described as "a Christian family."
[00:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:1) 02Re:ohh, the new rarity! - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:14] <exec> 08└─Actually it is rare this days, at least the "classical" kidnappings, a couple of decades ago there were several high profile kidnappings and the police did a good job for once around here and either jailed the gangs or made it unprofitable. What is common these days are a kind of "very short kidnapp...
[00:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Breaking News: my left butt cheek itches - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:23] <exec> 08└─No. I got to it first.
[00:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02must have LinkedIn account - 06MIT Media Lab Launches Disobedience Award, Funded By LinkedIn Founder - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:57] <exec> 08└─I refuse to use LinkedIn. That's right. I'm too disobedient for the Disobedience Award.
[00:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:not enough links - 06Team Uses Nanoparticles to Break Up Plaque and Prevent Cavities - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:46] <exec> 08└─This is a non-untypical anecdote. I personally discovered a counter-intuitive increase in halitosis, by frequent use of Listerine. The bacterial equilibrium was upset, and sulfur-producing bacteria were least affected by antiseptic. It may also be that the beneficial bacteria, which balanced these,...
[00:57:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02Re:enjoy the crow! - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:11] <exec> 08└─So the last few years happened because UK voted for Brexit in the future? Do you have a newsletter?
[00:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, it doesn't. - 06After-Hours Email Expectations Negatively Impact Employee Well-Being - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:31] <exec> 08└─Email expectations are abstract. They can not make any impact at all. It's like suggesting that progressivism can lick your soul clean - entirely nonsensical. Perhaps what you meant was that there might be some kind of negative effect? Next time you ask a medium to talk to George Carlin, get his opi...
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[01:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER JIHAD - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:28] <exec> 08└─But with the media shutdown how will the trolls reach the comments sections?
[01:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Religion of peace? - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:30] <exec> 08└─Religion of peace?
[01:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, we've got Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler standins for Axis Powers 2017+ :) I'll let you figure out which best fits each character :)
[01:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:34] <exec> 08└─Is Erdogan setting up his next coup? He's going crazy with digging out any opposition, and punishing everyone. It seems a pretty sure thing that he's punished a lot of people who had nothing to do with the coup. The media, judges, teachers, soldiers - where does he draw any lines? Everyone is guilty...
[01:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Textbook ... - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:36] <exec> 08└─History teachers will soon nominate Erdogan for an award based on his contribution to lessons on "transition from secular democracy to authoritarian religious system while leveraging the realpolitik consequences of a strategic location". I am amused at the jab from Obama's spokesperson, when asked a...
[01:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02A new whale - 06New Whale Species Identified Using Genetic Evidence - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:45] <exec> 08└─They named it the Umami whale and plan to do extensive 'scientific' research involving which kind of rice goes best with it. The Japanese, in conjunction with the Norwegian, and Icelandic Condiment Research Councils have pledged to continue 'researching' until they find the perfect blend of herbs an...
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I heard their chant was... - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─God is Great! Oil is Great! Soylent Green is Great! And then they made him into biodiesel and chow for their animals.
[01:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mbo42 [5378] (Score:1) 02Re:Without using a single drop of fuel. - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─As long as you don't count, the many, many gallons of fuel used to produce the craft and deliver it of course
[01:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Re:OLYMPIC GOLD! - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:30] <exec> 08└─This is just golden....
[01:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Risky move - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:37] <exec> 08└─Begs the question, how much would it cost to have her found with the kidnappers heads removed as a bonus
[01:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not even a joke... - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:45] <exec> 08└─A friend's (inbred) family is from North Carolina and she told a similiar story. There is an entire town/county over there somewhere where her mother is from. Apparently the whole town is like a soap opera of incest, with the mayor/sheriff as the 'elders' of the villiage.
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Marketing an ivory tower idea... - 06Revolutionary Web Browser Lets you Lead a Smarter Life When you get a HAT - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─This is a half-assed implementation of a not terrible idea. Theoretically, it would be nice to be able to have a system where I could store data and be able to manage sharing it. But they need to partner with and launch with some services for end users. This is just a press release of an idea. Why w...
[01:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Found this - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:27] <exec> 08└─Just reading that shows the argument on migrating to MySQL for reasons of data corruption is complete bull, given they had plenty due to MySQLisms beforehand. I've wanted to gut the site and change out our database from MySQL cluster to PG for awhile but lack of time and energy has prevented it.
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[02:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:23] <exec> 08└─we've got Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler standins for Axis Powers 2017+ :)
[02:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:24] <exec> 08└─You're exaggerating slightly, but there was a non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. I wouldn't say they were quite allies, but they did divide up much of Europe between them. http://www.history.com [history...
[02:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coup was set up to provide pretext for crackdown? - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:27] <exec> 08└─Search on "turkey coup false flag". Not saying it was, just a possibility that fits some of the facts.
[02:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Informative) 02dictatorship - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:31] <exec> 08└─Turkey is on it's way toward a dictatorship, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise if Erdogan makes himself "president" for life or jails the opposition before the next election.
[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Without using a single drop of fuel. - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:10] <exec> 08└─Moderated flamebait? Really? I say that's preposterous. All of us evaluate our own purchases, such as cars, based on a number of criteria. Cost, fuel efficiency, maintenance, sportiness, durability, sexiness. We spend our money on whatever seems to meet our needs. Arik points out that there are a lo...
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Without using a single drop of fuel. - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─Because, of course, *every* advance in technology or human achievement should be assessed on total cost. Total cost recovery for everything!
[02:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unbelievable they relied on 'solar power' - 06Goodbye, Philae: Rosetta's Comet Lander Lost Forever - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:40] <exec> 08└─Just has to be said because this is 2 years old - they regret not using nuclear power to power the space craft. Reasons for using solar were quickly muted by the complexity of landing on an known but unknown comet, leaving the tax payer funded research project crippled from that moment onwards. Coul...
[02:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bronster [356] (Score:1) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 1926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:08] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to correct you here, as others already have. InnoDB (the mysql backend engine that Uber are using) is fully ACID. Your continual harping on that incorrect data point already disqualifies your opinion. I've used both engines, but only mysql with replication. Cross-datacentre traffic is a...
[02:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bronster [356] (Score:1) 02Re:Lost Credibility - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:18] <exec> 08└─Wow. I didn't read that at all. I run Cyrus IMAP with its application level replication protocol rather than DRBD under the hood because I know that I can screw up and break the internals in various ways - and I'd rather be shipping descriptive changes with protocol level invariant checking rather t...
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[03:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Followup question would be: - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:24] <exec> 08└─How do HUMAN MALES consuming neonicotinoids have their living sperm count affected? Is this a cause of male impotence? If not, what other pesticides in use might have similiar reproductive harm on either humans, or other forms of wildlife/livestock?
[03:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:26] <exec> 08└─Feminists are already excluding human males from society.
[03:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:28] <exec> 08└─If it kills sperm, think of what it does to the eggs.
[03:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:40] <exec> 08└─Which all ended on June 22, 1941 when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
[03:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:43] <exec> 08└─Is Erdogan setting up his next coup?
[03:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:personal meetings with bernie - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:42] <exec> 08└─My dealings with Bernie were, necessarily, relative brief. On the order of 10 minutes each time, and always wrt the project we were working on for him. In general, I let my manager handle the majority of the conversation. As the guy who was financing the whole shebang, his main concern with us was...
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[04:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02H1B increases crime - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:21] <exec> 08└─Citizens who can't find work steal wireless internet access. Citizens who can't find work steal cable tv from the neighbors. Citizens who can't find work steal electricity from the grid. Citizens who can't find work steal food from supermarkets. Citizens who can't find work steal your car and sell t...
[04:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:31] <exec> 08└─Fertilize them?
[04:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:33] <exec> 08└─No we're not; just whiny little manchildren like you :) Cry harder for me, your tears are delicious.
[04:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:35] <exec> 08└─Just be thankful that the males are no longer expected by society to support the family all by themselves. The government seems to be a better provider than most males. The main thing males seem suited for are enforcement agents for the elite.
[04:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No surprise - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:37] <exec> 08└─We spray insecticide everywhere and then we wonder why insects keep dying and going extinct all around us. The answer is right there in the name, insecticide. The stuff works just as advertised.
[04:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:39] <exec> 08└─It's surprising because this type of insecticide is thought to kill by affecting the nervous systems of insects. It's as though non-fatal amounts of nerve gas were found to act as a spermicide. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:52] <exec> 08└─That did put rather a damper on the pact, didn't it? Then the USSR joined the Allies and that brings us to today.
[04:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:bacteria: our friends? - 06Team Uses Nanoparticles to Break Up Plaque and Prevent Cavities - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:51] <exec> 08└─Considering that dentists have been implanting known neurotoxins in people's mouths for centuries now and insist upon lying about it, I'd take anything they say with a grain of salt. Those "amalgam" fillings that they've been using since the 19th century aren't so much an amalgam as they are mercury...
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[05:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:16] <exec> 08└─You get welfare. It sux, but you can feed yourself and get basic cable + internet. You get a minimum wage job. It sucks, but you can feed yourself, you didn't need basic cable anyway. Especially now that you're working $WageAndBenefitsIncreaseHours - 1 per week, so you don't watch as much TV. You ge...
[05:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Related to this: - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:17] <exec> 08└─I knew a guy who used to sell drugs. He actually stashed a lot of his money, and lied and claimed the other stuff was his cut of the Social Security check his mom got for him. Doing so got him through high school until he got busted and had his cash confiscated (he hadn't thought to stash any of it...
[05:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:19] <exec> 08└─When the path of least resistance is not to commit a crime, people opt for that. More than vocational training though is the jobs, to which I wonder with mechanized everything on the horizon, what happens when votech withers with the lack of employment opportunities.
[05:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:21] <exec> 08└─what happens when votech withers with the lack of employment opportunities.
[05:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:24] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint- Areas with a high population of welfare recipients also tend to be high crime areas. Not that I'm opposed to basic income necessarily, but having the entire nation on the plantation might not work out as well as anticipated.
[05:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:26] <exec> 08└─Entire nation on the plantation is exactly where we're headed if the 1%ers want to continue hoarding money and still keep their heads.
[05:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:37] <exec> 08└─Those aren't tears.
[05:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:39] <exec> 08└─His vitreous humor is leaking? He should see an opthamologist about that...
[05:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:41] <exec> 08└─He's so full of pent-up sperm, pre-ejaculate is leaking from his eyes.
[05:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Jobs I won't do - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:46] <exec> 08└─Used to be Bull sperm collector. Now it's bee sperm collector. Title stolen from http://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] well worth reading. Also read http://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencemag...
[05:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:44] <exec> 08└─Allow me to 1) say thank you for teaching me something and 2) to correct you. It took some digging, but I know where our misunderstanding comes from. In summary - your points against MySQL are FUD, pure and simple. You don't actually know anything about it and you're talking shit based on hearsay. S...
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[06:53:19] <exec> 08└─steal internet access
[06:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:57] <exec> 08└─Yea, and you got 2 of those 3 stand-ins in the U.S. alone.
[06:56:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02Re:First it was microbeads - 06Team Uses Nanoparticles to Break Up Plaque and Prevent Cavities - 1847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:50] <exec> 08└─This isn't quite the same. With microbeads, they replaced the silica (sand, essentially, to act as grit for the face) with plastic. Plastic that doesn't break down and clogs municpal water filters and lasts forever. This is discussing incorporating something of significantly less permanence--iron ox...
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[07:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not cool bro - 06A Famous Supermassive Black Hole Observed With the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:12] <exec> 08└─It's not nice to spy on your grandma like that.
[07:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha? - 06Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Heating the Planet's Upper Atmosphere - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:22] <exec> 08└─Ordinary friction. The thing's moving at hundreds of miles per hour, has been for hundreds of years, and is 30,000 km wide (two to three Earths can comfortably fit inside). It's a storm of epic proportions, and even our piddly little storms on Earth can heat up the local air by many degrees (just fo...
[07:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ohh, the new rarity! - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:19] <exec> 08└─What is common these days are a kind of "very short kidnapping", where a group of criminals (and sometimes cops...) grabs you, usually in traffic, and drive you around to ATMs withdrawing as much money as possible, then lets you go. This usually takes only a couple of hours.
[07:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pallas [6302] (Score:1) 02The tale of a not so curious HAT - 06Revolutionary Web Browser Lets you Lead a Smarter Life When you get a HAT - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:41] <exec> 08└─It's uselessware. This sounds like some amateurish attempt at launching some AOL "new generation of elderly" edition. Just send a disc to granny and granpy "HAT" (which sounds like some bond villain, or a South Park character). Don't worry, hatco will protect your privacy by offering you a 'persona...
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[08:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:H1B increases crime - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:25] <exec> 08└─And they become *extremely* price-sensitive. So that means if you are running a restaurant, and decide to bump your soda prices, you will see an immediate cut in your clientele.
[08:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H1B increases crime - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:27] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. You see a demographic shift in your customers from white to brown as you increase your prices. For fun, charge $2 for extra cheese and see who breaks your windows first.
[08:54:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02dictatorship - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:10] <exec> 08└─Turkey is on it's way toward a dictatorship, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise if Erdogan makes himself "president" for life or jails the opposition before the next election.
[08:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Good... - 06No-Fuel Aircraft Completes Circumnavigation of the Globe - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, I missed that part where they took more than a year to complete their trip. Heck, 80 days should be a reasonable target. I think there is a reason that the only organisms really using solar power don't move much. I suppose you can argue that reptiles use solar power as well, but the supplement i...
[08:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rio, Olympics ... so "safe" - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:35] <exec> 08└─http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11683640 [nzherald.co.nz] The entire planet should walk out right now and go home. Why support a clearly corrupt and out of control country?
[08:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should have used RTGs - 06Goodbye, Philae: Rosetta's Comet Lander Lost Forever - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:56:20] <exec> 08└─"...deployed perhaps around a thousand RTGs (we don't really know how many, or where they all are) ... still intact, so far as we know." And you think silly politics is the only reason people don't want an unknown number of dirty bombs deployed at untracked, unsecured locations around the globe?
[08:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Once more into the breach! - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:23] <exec> 08└─No, one of them us much, much worse than the other. Hint: it's the one with Trump at the front.
[08:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Once more into the breach! - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:24] <exec> 08└─No, the real irony is that your vote doesn't matter since both parties will fuck over everyone except the 1%
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[09:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:36] <exec> 08└─Universal basic income doesn't mean that you won't work, it just means that you'll have a stronger bargaining position with potential employers. If you don't need the job to live then you can walk away if the conditions are too bad, but if they're okay then the extra income still increases your qual...
[09:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:51] <exec> 08└─Yeh, the "whiny little man-children" express their disgust in words. Real Men take Action... and put things back into place. By force if it comes to that. But then you get whiny wimmen...they have lost control of the men.
[09:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Followup question would be: - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:54] <exec> 08└─Doesn't affect humans much, but it's absolutely toxic for bees. If you wanted to custom-design something to genocide all bees, you couldn't create anything more effective than the neonicotinoids.
[09:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some issues - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:59] <exec> 08└─Three cages per colony were randomly selected to assess drone sperm quantity and viability at 14 days post-cage assay initiation, the typical age drones reach sexual maturity [60,61]. Drones in these cages were carefully removed using a forceps; to prevent sperm from migrating into the penis bulb, t...
[09:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:13] <exec> 08└─And Italy switched sides when it became obvious the Nazis were losing the war. Although from what I read of History. Stalin knew when they made the pact that Germany would invade eventually. What it did do though, was give some time and breathing room for the USSR to rebuild its army after Stalin pu...
[09:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:18] <exec> 08└─What's the Turkish for "gleichshaltung"?
[09:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kai_h [1524] (Score:1) 02Heat from the core? - 06Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Heating the Planet's Upper Atmosphere - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:42] <exec> 08└─IANAA (I am not an astrophysicist) but given that the core of Jupiter is estimated to be hotter than the surface of the sun (24,000 K according to NASA [nasa.gov]) I wouldn't consider it surprising that a centuries-old storm is conducting heat from the core to the surface of the planet. Cyclones on...
[09:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Somebody blew their marketing load all over my - 06Revolutionary Web Browser Lets you Lead a Smarter Life When you get a HAT - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:47] <exec> 08└─HAT is a research project that started in 2013 (by someone in the same lab as me, so I've been following it for a while). They've just done a spin-out that's actually producing a prototype based on the research now. The goal of the project is to allow individuals to gain the advantages from the vari...
[09:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Postgres is the old shit - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:54] <exec> 08└─The real news here is trendy Uber appers were using dinosaur tech in the first place.
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[10:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2) 02This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:13] <exec> 08└─In the actual game, the host opens one of the wrong doors to create drama, but the contestant is never allowed to switch doors. Monte Hall himself confirmed that the problem is inaccurate.
[10:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:This is stupid. No It is not - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:15] <exec> 08└─Just change the name to "The Pick A Box" problem (Australian TV show) and it becomes valid again
[10:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:17] <exec> 08└─This is a classic problem and sadly most people fall into the trap, keeping their first door. Solution: First when you pick, you have only 1/3 chance to get the car. When offered to swap doors, you change your odds from 1/3 to 1/2 if you swap the door as totally there are one car and one goat left a...
[10:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:19] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it isn't 2/3 change to get the car? You get the combined chance that it was behind the other two doors if you switch.
[10:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:21] <exec> 08└─You are actually right! 2/3 it is. Regardless, it is a win situation to switch door.
[10:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:23] <exec> 08└─When offered to swap doors, you change your odds from 1/3 to 1/2 if you swap the door as totally there are one car and one goat left and there is 50% chance of car in the other door.
[10:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I want the goat. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:26] <exec> 08└─Because I can't fuck a car.
[10:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:I want the goat. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:28] <exec> 08└─Well, technically, as long as it's not electric and you check for the possibility of third degree burns before you start...
[10:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:3, Insightful) 02UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:36] <exec> 08└─The long dated UK Gilt yields have never ever been this low. They used to be around 10% and we are getting less than 2% now. It has never been cheaper to fund large infrastructure projects and yet the UK government won't do this and is instead hoping for investment from the Chinese and EDF, who are...
[10:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:38] <exec> 08└─Who needs nuclear power when Putin promised to provide us with cheap gas forever? Or we could use power of the English sky to power London for "free"? /sarcasm, if you didn't catch it
[10:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:58] <exec> 08└─They have options, they're just too lazy or stupid to learn a skill/trade on their own. The solution isn't to pay more for minimum wage jobs, which were never meant for adults supporting themselves in the first place, the solution is to require a minimum of one year of vocational/technical training...
[10:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:04] <exec> 08└─All of that is splendid and has absolutely nothing to do with the point- areas of increased welfare (i.e.- lack of job opportunities) typically have higher rates of crime. If there is no work, basic income means squat towards the crime rate.
[10:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:06] <exec> 08└─If you are getting a basic income, it makes it much easier to move to a better place where they may be jobs.
[10:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:09] <exec> 08└─Some jobs are easily mechanized, yes. Most skilled trades though are cheaper to keep paying hourly humans indefinitely for and some skilled trades will never be mechanized. Example, it will never be worth the cost of 3d printing yourself a plumbing robot vs hiring a skilled plumber for an hour. No,...
[10:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:11] <exec> 08└─some skilled trades will never be mechanized
[10:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:The easy answer? - 06Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Heating the Planet's Upper Atmosphere - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I was under the impression that gravity waves can only be generated by concentrations of mass (lots and lots of mass for any significant amount of gravity) and that, once generated, they propagate outwards, getting gradually weaker but otherwise pretty much impervious to anything in their pa...
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[11:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah - the trick is that since "Monty" always knows which doors have what (and he's always got an empty/goat door) then he's not changing the selection odds in any way from the initial choice when he does the first part of the reveal, even though the question implies otherwise. Basically the first c...
[11:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Simulation of the game - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:26] <exec> 08└─Here is a simulation of the game written in Haskell. Put it into a file called monte.hs and then type 'runghc monte.hs': import System.Random attempts = 100000 play :: Int -> Int -> Int -> IO (Int, Int) play 0 stayWin swapWin = return (stayWin, swapWin) play attempt stayWin swapWin = do car <-...
[11:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I never believed the 2/3 switch... - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:28] <exec> 08└─This is the first time I saw the wikipedia entry and I have to say, seeing it took a computer simulation to convince Erdős makes me feel a little better about my lack of intuition.
[11:53:29] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 1741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:30] <exec> 08└─I'm a mathematician, by education. I just work in IT by trade. I use the Monty Hall problem as a classic example of statistics, probability and human interpretation - why numbers "lie" to you all the time and so you can't just rely on the numbers alone without having the expertise to interpret them....
[11:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hinckley point - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:40] <exec> 08└─Well, they named it after the guy who shot Ronald Reagan, who's getting out of the institution he's been in for the last 35 years...
[11:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No the Hinkley point was... - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:42] <exec> 08└─How do you tell which crazy to root for :)
[11:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:03] <exec> 08└─They have options, they're just too lazy or stupid to learn a skill/trade on their own.
[11:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, they should. You think it's easy for those of us who did? Should I tell you how I used to get two hours of sleep twice a day while I was in college all day and jockeying a register all night? Would you like to hear how my large family lived off the income of one waitress while my dad went to sc...
[11:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:14] <exec> 08└─The proposed Switzerland basic income was over $2,500 a month per adult. Even accounting for higher cost of living, that is massive. Many in the US can live comfortably on $800-1k a month and never work again. For extra money to spend on luxuries, committing opportunistic crimes once in a while such...
[11:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:18] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Bender aside, robots are not funny.
[11:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but I do not think USSR was capable of losing a conventional war at that time. The country is more epic than Afghanistan in its capacity to swallow invaders. Maybe extra 10 million Ruskies would have perished, but I doubt Stalin cared.
[11:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dictatorship - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:02] <exec> 08└─Relax, he's just preparing his democratic nation to join the EU.
[11:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dictatorship - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:04] <exec> 08└─To be fair, not a lot of Europeans want Turkey in. It's just the ruling class who want to use them as brown fodder.
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[12:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:19] <exec> 08└─The numbers are staggering. It reminds me of the 1B$ ipod story. The numbers are so insane that if you would count all images together, you'd get a monetary value exceeding the world economy. That is insane. That said, there is _no_ excuse for abusing one's work and Getty Images has been caught (and...
[12:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:20] <exec> 08└─Part of the reason the figure is so high is precisely because Getty Images has been caught (and punished) before; that entitles the judge to triple the damages that would otherwise have been awarded, should they lose the case. Maximum damages that can be awarded in cases like this is apparently $25,...
[12:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Nail them to the WALL! - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:23] <exec> 08└─Nail them to the wall. What I don't understand is how this isn't fraud? They are pretending to have the capacity to enter a contract to sell someone else's property... I'd throw the criminal book at them as well.
[12:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simulation of the game - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:39] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to learn Haskell. Now, however, I just understand why a Haskell user would think "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good" is somehow an appropriate title, or sentence in English.
[12:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:51] <exec> 08└─EDF, who are partly owned by the French state
[12:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:16] <exec> 08└─"If I could do it, everyone can" argument. That's a bit ignorant. So please tell me, oh Mighty Buzz, of the time you broke the 10 second barrier for a 100m sprint. Speak to me about your thought-provoking theories about the nature of space-time. Please, grace us with your world-class singing skills....
[12:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:17] <exec> 08└─Serious question - regardless of the arguments before this, the sum of your argument seems to be, "because my family had it hard and made it out ok, everyone else that has it hard should do the same." Is that accurate? Because I would think that having it hard would lead to some empathy, instead of...
[12:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A job for a TLA - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:15] <exec> 08└─Two quotes from the man. "Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off." "You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim, or secular! When both are together, they create reverse magnetism [i.e.they repel one another]. For them to exist together is...
[12:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wha? - 06Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Heating the Planet's Upper Atmosphere - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:34] <exec> 08└─You are confusing gravitational waves (ripples in spacetime) with gravity waves (ripples in the atmosphere along a pressure boundary perpendicular to the force of gravity)
[12:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every webcam-girl everywhere - 06MIT Media Lab Launches Disobedience Award, Funded By LinkedIn Founder - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:57:15] <exec> 08└─Only the ones who suck at passing.
[12:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:That's fine, Guv. - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:58:58] <exec> 08└─If you're Romanian or Bulgarian and you turn up at a Jobcentre+ in South Wales, they give you £1000 cash, no questions asked, a free house and a lifetime's supply of Welsh Rarebit. That's why they voted UKIP and for Brexit. Neil Hamilton, a fine, decent, upstanding champion if the Working Class, po...
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[13:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:23] <exec> 08└─I know what the reasoning behind the value is. However, that does not make it right in my opinion. My objection is that monetary valuation on a non-monetary item is a fallacy. My argument is that the public domain has no monetary value, but it has a societal value. My reasoning is therefore that the...
[13:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:24] <exec> 08└─There's also an obvious followup: Getty was firing off cease-and-desist letters demanding payment. Well, if anybody responded with payment, they now have obvious grounds for suit based on a fraudulent legal representation that they have copyright on images they don't actually own. So yeah, they shou...
[13:53:25] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02What the crime actuallly is. - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:26] <exec> 08└─What the damages are about is that the copyright information about the photographs has been falsified, which itself incurs statutory damages under the DMCA, regardless of any royalties due to the photographer.
[13:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not in the public domain. - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:28] <exec> 08└─The photographs are not in the public domain. The public has been granted a licence to reproduce them for free, provided proper attribution is given. This may be a technicality, but it is this kind of technicality the GPL rests on.
[13:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Not in the public domain. - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:31] <exec> 08└─That is, indeed, a technicality, by which the whole infringement case can be brought. It is a construct for handling an imperfect system. In essence, the images are free for anyone to use in any way, /except/ claiming them to be yours. All copyleft licenses base their effectiveness on very strong co...
[13:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Not in the public domain. - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:33] <exec> 08└─I think part of the penalty should be that all of the images (that are not the plaintiffs) actually *do* get put in the public domain if they can't pay their whole fine.
[13:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:35] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] says that in the US, statutory damages for infringement are $750-30,000 per work. For ~19,000 photos that puts Getty in the hole immediately for between $14.25-570m. Wilful infringement - and given Getty's apparent (and repeated) behaviour here I think any competent lawyer...
[13:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:37] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself, but found a report which makes it a bit clearer: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com [pdnonline.com] Highsmith says she never abandoned her copyrights to the images. She says the Library of Congress had ag...
[13:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit. - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:39] <exec> 08└─The number is $400 million. The 1 billion comes from them being a repeat offender. The woman retains copyright on her works and has allowed them to be used in the public domain. This may be a case where the numbers are not outrageous. Just another example of how copyright as written is broken and in...
[13:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:50] <exec> 08└─In the actual game, the contestant is sometimes allowed to switch doors. Monte Hall confirmed that the show manipulated this rule because they knew it increased the odds. (Sometimes they wanted to give away the car.) For the purposes of the math exercise, the problem must be stated that you are alwa...
[13:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Simulation of the game - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:00] <exec> 08└─This takes me back. In the 1980s somehow my dad and I became enamored of this problem. We spent a long time trying to work it out and Dad even called one of his old college professors for some assistance in understanding it. Then a buddy of dad's from work gave us a program in Applesoft Basic that r...
[13:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:Simulation of the game - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:01] <exec> 08└─non-recursive R version, for those who had difficulty understanding the Haskell version: #!/usr/bin/Rscript system.time({ attempts <- 10000000; car <- sample(1:3, attempts, replace=TRUE); choice <- sample(1:3, attempts, replace=TRUE); stayWin <- sum(ca...
[13:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:06] <exec> 08└─not buying it: if you euros are saying it is 'maths', when we 'murikans know it as mathematics, and THEN are saying you are 'mathematicians', not gonna allow it... if you are saying 'maths', should be 'mathers'...
[13:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:08] <exec> 08└─In a sense, I think it's the low sample size (i.e. only 3 doors) that works against intuition in this problem. As stated in the wiki article, if one considers a larger number of doors (and assuming Monty opens all but one of them before the offer to switch), it becomes much more intuitive that switc...
[13:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:19] <exec> 08└─To our governments, the Market is sacred. They will not invest in anything like this at all, even if it is vital to the country's long-term energy supply infrastructure. Foreign state-owned companies can take the risk and the public can pay for it over the coming decades.
[13:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No the Hinkley point was... - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:23] <exec> 08└─Just root for all the crazy! It's where the world is going at any rate.
[13:54:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:52] <exec> 08└─Universal basic income doesn't mean that you won't work, it just means that you'll have a stronger bargaining position with potential employers. If you don't need the job to live then you can walk away if the conditions are too bad, but if they're okay then the extra income still increases your qual...
[13:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:55] <exec> 08└─And that's splendid but fails to account for every UBI trial ever done.
[13:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:43] <exec> 08└─Dunno. What's the English for "gleichshaltung"? Ahhhh - got it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] English translation: That queer thing nazis did with their arms instead of saluting.
[13:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:45] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the salute, it's the process whereby all dissent was suppressed and everyone in any kind of official position was made to conform to the party line. How did you Google "gleichschaltung" (which leads to https://en.wikipedia.org) and end up with "Nazi salute"?
[13:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:47] <exec> 08└─The beatings will continue until morale improves.
[13:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How to spend $37M - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:21] <exec> 08└─One option would be to buy a nice contract to fix the problem. I think the better option is that the govt should be very motivated to sort this out before it impacts the games. This probably wasn't the best timing on the part of the bad guys.
[14:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Jaded on women's pay - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, and this is no different than a worker being slaved to Walmart
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost Credibility - 06Why Uber switched from Postgres to MySQL - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:04] <exec> 08└─I've also run MySQL in production, purely InnoDB, for over 10 years without data being destroyed, so I'm amused at your FUD about how it will corrupt your database
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[14:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Suggested alternative - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:29] <exec> 08└─Some daesh
[14:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is an ulterior motive for this?
[14:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:32] <exec> 08└─Surely they can't be changing long-standing traditions to, I don't know, cover certain things up.
[14:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Noble but naive? - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─This certainly sounds like a noble goal, but I'm sure there will always be someone willing to report the information. And there will be plenty of people who want to know the information who certainly aren't trying to glorify the killers. As long as there's freedom the names will be put out there for...
[14:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Not in the public domain. - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:50] <exec> 08└─There may be a problem with that plan. Obviously, the defendant is CLAIMING these thousands of images as their own. I would suspect that a lot of their other imaginary property also belongs to other people and/or companies. Is it possible that the defendant actually owns nothing of their own? IN tha...
[14:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:05] <exec> 08└─If he doesn't offer the choice to switch every time, on the "you can have both other doors" offer I would be extremely suspicious I had already selected the winning one. Assuming they wanted to save money and *not* give away the car.
[14:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:09] <exec> 08└─Not always. Therein lies the violation of our intuition. If the contestant could intuitively pick the right door on the first try (something our intuition tells us we can do, regardless of the actual facts that the producers have set things up deliberately to make this effectively impossible), then...
[14:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:14] <exec> 08└─I still don't get this. The host must always open a door that was not picked by the contestant (Mueser and Granberg 1999). The host must always open a door to reveal a goat and never the car. The host must always offer the chance to switch between the originally chosen door and the remaining closed...
[14:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─This whole thing smells like one of those word games where they purposely phrase the rules badly and then laugh at you when you're mislead into picking the wrong answer. How *wouldn't* the initial placement of the car be random?
[14:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─If the host has to open a different door, the chance is 1/2 regardless of whether you switch between the remaining two doors.
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─But picking a door to begin with is just showmanship; it doesn't affect the odds at all. If you didn't pick a door at all at the beginning and Monty randomly chooses one of the two goat doors, then you choose a door, you'd still have the same odds. You always gain information when the host opens th...
[14:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─Let's try a different explanation, then. You pick a door. One third of the time, you have picked the one with the car. Two thirds of the time, you have picked one with a goat. Then the rules force Monty to act based on your choice. In the 1/3 case, Monty can choose either of the other doors (they bo...
[14:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can I pick door no. 3? - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:33] <exec> 08└─As someone who owns over 2 dozen goats, I think I'd rather switch to the door you just showed me gets me another goat. We could always use some new genes in the herd.
[14:54:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 538 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:40] <exec> 08└─The long dated UK Gilt yields have never ever been this low. They used to be around 10% and we are getting less than 2% now. It has never been cheaper to fund large infrastructure projects and yet the UK government won't do this and is instead hoping for investment from the Chinese and EDF, who are...
[14:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:12] <exec> 08└─The solution isn't to pay more for minimum wage jobs, which were never meant for adults supporting themselves in the first place
[14:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:03] <exec> 08└─Gotta throw my two cents in here. Without her number one ally, Russia probably would have lost to Germans. And, no, I'm not talking about the US, UK, or any other nation. Russia's primary ally was Old Man Winter. The damned fool Germans didn't understand what they were getting into, touring Russia i...
[14:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:11] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm - good question. I speak no German, of course. I clicked a page with gleichschaltung in the title, and wikipedia as part of the address. Looked legit to me. As the page loaded, I got a flash of the word Gleichschaltung as it appears on the page you link to. Just a momentary flash, and the page...
[14:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A job for a TLA - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:19] <exec> 08└─I believe Erdogan got right around 70% of the vote. Typical fraudulent elections claim anywhwere from 91 to 99%. (They rarely claim 100% for some reason.) I think the Turks have asked for what they've got right now. Witness the fact that civilians stood up to prevent military members in on the coup...
[14:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:A job for a TLA - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:22] <exec> 08└─Voting to abandon democracy seems like one of those things where you should require at least a 2/3 majority :P Otherwise congratulations, you're probably in the 49% who get fucked over.
[15:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Jaded on women's pay - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:40] <exec> 08└─Companies like Walmart treat their employees as poorly and cheaply as the law of the land will let them in order to maximise the amount of money taken from the customer that gets to the shareholders. Your society, via its elected representatives, has decided that this is how things shall be. If soci...
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[15:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02What is that sound? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:27] <exec> 08└─WHOOOSH! Air delivery Darwin Award. Cool!
[15:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What is that sound? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:28] <exec> 08└─I imagine it'll be a short trip. Too bad he didn't wait until Fall to do it.
[15:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:30] <exec> 08└─Vesna Vulović is a Serbian former flight attendant. She holds the distinction of being the world record holder, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,333 ft). Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
[15:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think they are trying to cover it up, especially if they're still announcing that somebody has ties to ISIS or something. We can accept as a given that ordinary people do not typically try to kill as many people as possible in a suicidal gesture. So why do these guys do it? It has to be more...
[15:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:43] <exec> 08└─What is the French for "retarded islamaloon"? This is the only information that matters.
[15:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:47] <exec> 08└─> As long as there's freedom the names will be put out there for those who want to know. Which is totally irrelevant. This isn't about censoring facts. It is about denying people fame. News coverage is publicity. Its notoriety. Its promotion. These people deserve none of that. The press is waking u...
[15:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:49] <exec> 08└─This isn't about censoring facts. It is about denying people fame. News coverage is publicity. Its notoriety. Its promotion. These people deserve none of that.
[15:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:51] <exec> 08└─> My point is that you can't actually deny other people fame Fame is not binary. Its incremental. The less fame people give you, the less famous you are. You are stuck in that classic geek failure mode of believing that if something is not perfect, then it is useless.
[15:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:53] <exec> 08└─You are stuck in that classic geek failure mode of believing that if something is not perfect, then it is useless.
[15:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:55] <exec> 08└─> or is their goal to completely prevent the terrorist becoming famous? Binary. You keep doing it. Only you think binary is their goal. Probably because you want to complain about censorship since that's an easy binary complaint to make, much easier than understanding how human society actually work...
[15:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Noble but naive? - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:58] <exec> 08└─Yep. The Cat's outta the bag. Europeans are pissed that their treasonous officials are making them eat shit sandwiches and then "get used to it." Are you wondering why European officials are destroying Europe by allowing in hordes of filthy murderous unskilled Islamic savages? Does this not make any...
[15:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Re:Noble but naive? - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:00] <exec> 08└─Yep. The Cat's outta the bag. Europeans are pissed that their treasonous officials are making them eat shit sandwiches and then "get used to it."
[15:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incomplete information about Le Monde's new policy - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:02] <exec> 08└─They will continue to publish photos. However those photos will either be mug shots, ids, or other legal identifications. No longer the everyday life or propaganda pictures. This was clarified in a talk with Renee Montagne. http://www.npr.org
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nail them to the WALL! - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:22] <exec> 08└─It is fraud, but prosecuting that's not the plaintiff's call nor will it make her whole.
[15:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:46] <exec> 08└─And a 50% chance of car in the door you picked the first time.
[15:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Simulation of the game - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:53] <exec> 08└─This statement makes it clear for me: swapWin - sum(car!=choice); If you pick the car the first time, then swapping will cause you to lose, but if you pick a goat the first time, then swapping will cause you to win.
[15:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I pick door no. 3? - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─Amen. I'd pick the goat as well. Especially because if they have the goat on the show, I bet it's a friendly goat. I might even try to feed it a bouquet and give it a nice scratch.
[15:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Math is witchcraft - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 2391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:03] <exec> 08└─I can think of a time when I helped another poor idiot with my knowledge of math. Last year I was in line at a big-box retailer. I bought about $60 worth of merchandise. The clerk rang up the total and I handed her a $100 bill. When she entered the amount tendered, she added a zero, and the cash reg...
[15:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The problem tells us more about psychology - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:05] <exec> 08└─The phrasing of this problem is itself the problem. By preloading the terms of the problem with an inaccurate model that does not reflect what is going on, it's not surprising that you're forcing an error on the part of your audience. Or, to put it another way, it's like saying you're a great hacker...
[15:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:44] <exec> 08└─Buzz is really proud of how he was the smartest kid in school. Not just smarter than all the other kids, smarter than all the teachers too. He'll tell you how he didn't learn anything from them because teachers are useless. He's such a special snowflake. And now here he is pretending to be nothing s...
[15:55:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rondon [5167] 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:45] <exec> 08└─Serious question - regardless of the arguments before this, the sum of your argument seems to be, "because my family had it hard and made it out ok, everyone else that has it hard should do the same." Is that accurate? Because I would think that having it hard would lead to some empathy, instead of...
[15:55:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:47] <exec> 08└─The solution isn't to pay more for minimum wage jobs, which were never meant for adults supporting themselves in the first place
[15:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:49] <exec> 08└─Well now we have difficult choices, do we believe the facts, or the right wing news and barely warmed over talking points.
[15:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:02] <exec> 08└─Why print one yourself if you only need it for an hour. Just hire someone else's robot. Maybe your building, street, town or whatever can all chip in 20c and get a robot drain cleaner. There goes a large percentage of plumbing jobs. Of course robots will never be able to join pipes together. It woul...
[15:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:03] <exec> 08└─Example, it will never be worth the cost of 3d printing yourself a plumbing robot vs hiring a skilled plumber for an hour. For repairs to old houses, sure. But, once they start 3d-printing the whole house why wouldn't they 3d-print the pipes as well?
[16:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Jaded on women's pay - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:18] <exec> 08└─If society wanted, it could pass laws to compel employers to treat employees better. The sacred Market has no interest in doing so. We have done the experiment and we observe the result.
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[16:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is that sound? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Followed by "THUD".
[16:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:What is that sound? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:35] <exec> 08└─Just one gust of wind away.
[16:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why he is going to 7600m, if he just wants to be the first person to fall into a net he just needs to achieve terminal velocity (~450m). There are a number of recorded falls from aeroplanes which were non-fatal, ranging from almost death to minor scrapes. https://en.wikipedia.org
[16:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:40] <exec> 08└─Presumably, diving from 7600m is more fun than diving from 450m.
[16:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cue Invisible Hand - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:42] <exec> 08└─of Darwin in 3...2...1...
[16:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02confused - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:44] <exec> 08└─I've got 18,000 jumps with a parachute, so why not wear one this time?
[16:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:47] <exec> 08└─attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net.
[16:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:59] <exec> 08└─No, I think part of the story is that they know that by doing this, they will be immortalized in the press.
[16:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:00] <exec> 08└─about a billion people follow a religion with that idea and about 99.999% of them aren't trying to do anything remotely like that.
[16:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:03] <exec> 08└─Your phrase, while hilarious (I'm going to steal it), is redundant. "Islamic" is synonymous with both "Retarded," and "Loon."
[16:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:11] <exec> 08└─Only you think binary is their goal.
[16:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:14] <exec> 08└─This. Whenever you deny someone publicity/notoriety for their dastardly deed it seems like it has to be a step in the right direction. Even if it's only a few newspapers that sign on initially, this is a good thing. I remember being very frustrated by the Bush administration calling for a "War on Te...
[16:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:16] <exec> 08└─Today it's someone who does a dastardly act. Tomorrow it will be regular criminal's. And from there it will go to anyone who disagrees with the 'common' consensus. While I agree with you that the situation should have been treated as law enforcement rather than war, censorship though even in the nam...
[16:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Noble but naive? - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:20] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech is also the freedom to keep your mouth shut, if you want to.
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Journalistic Ethics - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─The most ethical thing a journalist can do is fully report what has occured, not to selectively report so to influence others. Journalists are supposed to report the story not be part of it. Hiding this info will only reinforce the right-wing view that most media outlets would prefer not to tie thes...
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02I'm shocked I tell you - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─This is the same pattern from the liberals. When faced with the complete failure of their policies and unwilling to realize that saying "nice kitty" to the hungry tiger hasn't prevented it from attacking them, they revert to their typical defensive behavior pattern: IGNORE IT AND IT WILL JUST GO AWA...
[16:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:35] <exec> 08└─My argument is that the public domain has no monetary value, but it has a societal value. These images were not in the public domain. They were under copyright by the photographer and a permissive license was granted to the Library of Congress.
[16:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:59] <exec> 08└─Sure, that makes it a simple exercise in game theory. You should never switch. The problem has to be stated very carefully to avoid that, and it usually isn't.
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─I look at it as: x. ? y. ? z. ? A door is revealed: You now have 2 doors with no clue/no information. Are you REALLY any closer to knowing if you should switch? I see it as going from 33.33333% repeating chance of having chosen correctly to 50% chance of having chosen correctly. Would switching real...
[16:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:14] <exec> 08└─Actually I think the solution is slightly different. First, what I'll call the "real politic" solution. If the common wisdom is to switch to the other unopened door, then your choice should be based on whether you think they want to give a car away or not (i.e. have they given a car away lately, how...
[16:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a mathematician, by education. ... Honestly, if people learned just a bit more statistics and probability, gambling revenues would plummet and shampoo ads would end up having to actually confess they are all really just Sodium Laureth Sulphate in varying different concentrations.
[16:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Math is witchcraft - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:31] <exec> 08└─I don't think they were pissed because of some vague hatred/distrust of math, they felt lime you were cheating. Its like setting up a tripod Mount for one if those shooting gallery games. You were ruining the mystery and fun of guessing. I agree they were silly and stupid, but I don't think it was a...
[16:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the poor poor goat? - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:34] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants the poor goat? Maybe it just wants to be loved you insensitive jerks!!
[16:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:UK can borrow so cheaply but it won't fund this - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─Or maybe they have learnt from the prototypes, got a killer price guarantee for the electricity, can't build one at home for a little while, have to help their Board friends at Areva, and know that in case of major trouble, a little bit of crying about terrible balance sheets will mean the French pe...
[16:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02raring to go? - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:51] <exec> 08└─union workers? doubtful.
[16:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:17] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's more likely that he didn't learn much because our schools are and were utterly useless and without decent standards.
[16:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:19] <exec> 08└─Look up his post history, please. Uzzard is one of those pathological cases whose mental world is a bubble of predatory, self-regarding darkness. About half a dozen of his best (hah...) should convince you what I'm talking about. There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here. We are speaking here...
[16:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:24] <exec> 08└─You get welfare. It sux, but you can feed yourself and get basic cable + internet.
[16:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:36] <exec> 08└─No, they're not, but I need to give you credit for trying. God, you're to fucking typical. I knew, just KNEW, your idiotic "well I did X Y and Z back when I was a young shit golem, why can't everyone else?" was going to get smeared all over this thread. newsflash, shithead: it ain't the 70s no more....
[16:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, but... one of my neighbors is a plumber. He used to make good money during the construction boom a few years ago but not so much anymore, largely because of tech: Much of new plumbing is mostly simple, flexible screw (or worst case glue) together plastic tubes. You don't need a lot of skill / e...
[16:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:42] <exec> 08└─and some skilled trades will never be mechanized.
[16:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:58] <exec> 08└─Real Men take Action..... anonymously. Damn, even Billary do their scummy, corrupt work out in the open. I'm guessing MY WIFE!!! could take you by force if it comes to that. But then you get whiny AC's...
[16:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:22] <exec> 08└─And Italy wasn't much of a factor in the war, anyways... Hitler used to basically cry over how bad Italy's armed forces were. They were cannon fodder, baby-sitting holes in between his defences, leaving his army to do the hard work.
[16:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:24] <exec> 08└─(actually very similar to what Erdogan is currently doing)
[17:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Jaded on women's pay - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:02] <exec> 08└─Like I said, we've done the laissez-faire capitalism experiment and it's only any good for the people already at the top.
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[17:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02better link - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:26] <exec> 08└─The link in the article goes to comments about the announcement and it wasn't incredibly obvious how to get to the announcement itself. So, direct link to the announcement here. [ingebrigtsen.no] The threats appear to be legal, and an ongoing DDOS, if you were wondering like I was.
[17:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think she fell by herself. If I remember the story well, she was in a broken-off tail section of the airplane which fell with her inside.
[17:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe because he likes being freefall and that's the highest the plane he usually jumps out of can go?
[17:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:47] <exec> 08└─Those nets were all hanging in the air, although at very low altitude. Jumping into a net lying on the ground might be new. :-)
[17:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sendafiolorkar [6300] (Score:1) 02Is he a Skywalker? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:50] <exec> 08└─Luke Skywalker Anakin Skywalker Use the force Luke... Aikins
[17:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Is he a Skywalker? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:52] <exec> 08└─More of a Skyfaller.
[17:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:54] <exec> 08└─There was a guy here, not too long ago, who wanted to set some record or other in a wing suit. More than 2000 successful flights. He swore he only flew when it was safe. But each new record meant only that an even riskier one had to be broken. The day came, the weather was just slightly off - some l...
[17:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:09] <exec> 08└─30% of the "american" ones support the murders done by the "0.001%". Hmm, that stat smells a bit off. I wonder where you pulled it from.... More generally, Muslims mostly say that suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians in the name of Islam are rarely or never justi...
[17:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:11] <exec> 08└─James Holmes wanted to 'blow up' or 'shoot people' to become famous. [chicagotribune.com] Documents released by prosecutors show convicted theater shooter James Holmes wanted to 'blow up' or 'shoot people' to become famous. The documents also reveal how close he came to being placed in a psy...
[17:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:23] <exec> 08└─It's not "censorship". It's refusing to do the job of the terrorists. ISIS is just a bunch of loonies on pickup trucks, who are incapable of taking a town 30km from their "capital" because it's not filled with Sunni. But they are really really good at propaganda, and using the media and the internet...
[17:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked I tell you - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's anything like "ignore it and it'll go away." It's more like there really is a copycat effect, so maybe we shouldn't play into it. It's also that people are really terrible at judging relative risk, so the average .usian is afraid of terrorists, which are horribly unlikely to kill...
[17:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the long neck bird in desert - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─hmmm ... we should then also not mention the two atomic bombs, the first and second world war, that famous photopicture of the soldier getting shot in spain and maybe also let's forget all that "arbeit macht frei" old testament religion eradication attempt? rather we should inform ALOT about what in...
[17:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Authoritarianism - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─Put the media in the hands of the government. Tightly control what is and is not allowed to be reported on. Yeah, I am sure nothing will go wrong with that.
[17:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:23] <exec> 08└─Are you REALLY any closer to knowing if you should switch?
[17:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:24] <exec> 08└─But picking a door to begin with is just showmanship; it doesn't affect the odds at all. If you didn't pick a door at all at the beginning and Monty randomly chooses one of the two goat doors, then you choose a door, you'd still have the same odds.
[17:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Understanding the problem. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 3914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:47] <exec> 08└─Here's one way to understand WHY the 2/3 answer is correct. Take a slightly simplified version of the game, with the following rules. There are three doors. One always contains a car, two are always losers. The player is allowed to pick one door, and the host has the other two doors. At the start of...
[17:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Nice but ... - 06A Famous Supermassive Black Hole Observed With the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:10] <exec> 08└─I just observed a crow. It moved. I learnt nothing. What did we, or do we expect to, learn using all that amazing tech?
[17:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:34] <exec> 08└─i would disagree with the blanket statement that "they have options". that's not necessarily true. If you have no computer, no internet, no money, and maybe no food in a town where there are no jobs (unless you're connected) it can be damn near impossible for an immature, demoralized teen to find a...
[17:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah he should see a doctor about that. Or maybe a dominatrix.
[17:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter. - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:12] <exec> 08└─Is that a threat, pencil-dick? Go on, do your worst...you and Mikee can share a lava crater in Hell.
[17:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:47] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the salute, it's the process whereby all dissent was suppressed and everyone in any kind of official position was made to conform to the party line.
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[18:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:better link - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:24] <exec> 08└─Noticed that too... I have updated TFS now.
[18:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Insightful) 02OK, I'll ask. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:25] <exec> 08└─Why? It's an important gateway between mailing lists and usenet.
[18:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02an important gateway - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:28] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, if it is getting threats, I guess it is important. On the other hand, if I have never heard of this technology before, how important is it? It's not like shutting down the DNS system or backbone, or declaring that APIs have copyright protection.
[18:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02pronounced "mane" - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:30] <exec> 08└─Over my dead body
[18:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─> I don't think she fell by herself. Nobody likes a cheater.
[18:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:48] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing he chose a height where he'd have time to steer his descent, particularly time to attempt recovery if he's blown off course. He could still get blown to his doom in the last few moments, of course, but if he's already got a ton of momentum bearing on-target by that time a last minute sh...
[18:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:50] <exec> 08└─I saw a documentary once on Juliane Koepcke who survived a 3.2km fall into the Peruvian rain forest in 1971. As if the fall were not bad enough, she had to survive for something like eleven days before she got help. A fascinating story.
[18:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─Although he will hit terminal velocity at 450m, I think the higher distance has a lot more to do with hitting the target net. It would be harder to hit a 30m X 30m target from 25,000 feet than from 1,500 feet.
[18:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:59] <exec> 08└─It says the net is 20 stories high, and then not to try this at home, which made me wonder about the Fox viewership. I might potentially consider thinking about studying the possibility to form a committee to analyse the eventuality of trying something like that. On the quietest wind-free day in his...
[18:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:01] <exec> 08└─You're just now starting to wonder about Fox viewers? I think it's been rather obvious for the last couple of decades that they make up the most gullible people in the world.
[18:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:03] <exec> 08└─It would be an excellent addition to the Redneck Olympics.
[18:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:08] <exec> 08└─So much better to be a nameless normie doing utterly boring and normal things. I don't care for their activities, but I won't pass judgment on them either; they're certainly not cowards.
[18:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─Did the guy have kids? If not, will you submit him to http://www.darwinawards.com [darwinawards.com]? Let the problem take care of itself, remove all safety labels!
[18:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─Again. HELLO IT'S 2016. Shutting down newspapers no longer works. They are not the sole source of information. In fact, if you shut down "legitimate" news sources, all you're doing is increasing the amount of people who will get their information from "other" sources. Traditional media is in BIG tro...
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to "we won't let them change the way we live"...?
[18:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:40] <exec> 08└─classic geek failure mode
[18:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:45] <exec> 08└─It is censorship. Specifically, self-censorship. This term has existed for a while now; get over it.
[18:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:47] <exec> 08└─Under the broadest definition of self-censorship, it might be. Otherwise, it's called journalism: sorting information based on the actual value to the target, rather than ratings. Haven't seen much of that on most media outlets recently.
[18:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Noble but naive? - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:51] <exec> 08└─The Jews are behind it all? Oh come on man that is just lazy. You can do better than that.
[18:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked I tell you - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─I don't even want to know what people would do about drunk drivers if they became scared of them. More thug officers setting up DUI checkpoints? All new cars have to have proprietary [gnu.org] breathalysers? Who knows what nonsense people would come up with. I'm not sure I'd like widespread fear abo...
[18:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:13] <exec> 08└─In this case, the figure is probably fair. Getty sent her a bill for $120 for the use of her own photo and there were tens of thousands of images. I doubt she'll be awarded that much, but juries usually don't award more than what you ask for. And also consider that Getty wasn't asking for the $120 f...
[18:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:16] <exec> 08└─How fortunate for CBS that going forward Stephen Colbert will portray Stephen Colbert, the identical twin cousin of Stephen Colbert instead.
[18:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:53] <exec> 08└─See my other reply to the parent, but the short form: If you pick correctly the first time, then switching will make you lose. If you pick incorrectly the first time, then Monty must close the one other door that is incorrect, so switching makes you win. You have a 1/3 chance of picking correctly th...
[18:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:08] <exec> 08└─Unless they are born in Germany, in which case they are called The Beaver.
[18:56:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02Math is witchcraft - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 2391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:13] <exec> 08└─I can think of a time when I helped another poor idiot with my knowledge of math. Last year I was in line at a big-box retailer. I bought about $60 worth of merchandise. The clerk rang up the total and I handed her a $100 bill. When she entered the amount tendered, she added a zero, and the cash reg...
[18:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Math is witchcraft - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:17] <exec> 08└─How dare you, a mere fallible human, distrust the perfect machine that says . . . Change Due: $940.00. That's what she might be upset about.
[18:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the poor poor goat? - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:21] <exec> 08└─There are people who love goats. Just like Microsoft loves Linux. Or Foxes love Chickens. Or Sharks love Fish.
[18:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Let's make it simpler! - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:24] <exec> 08└─I always have trouble parsing the solutions to these logic puzzles because the steps are presented out of order to how I think. So here's an attempt to make it simpler. When the host shows you a door that doesn't win, he is telling you that either your door is right or the door he didn't pick is rig...
[18:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H1B increases crime - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:59] <exec> 08└─I'm halfway there. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a few bodies to dump.
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:24] <exec> 08└─Cut him some slack. He's old.
[18:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ohh, the new rarity! - 06Mother-in-Law of Formula One Billionaire Kidnapped for Ransom in Brazil - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah if the penalties for kidnapping are much higher than for robbery I'm sure the robbers would insist on that definition.
[19:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Jaded on women's pay - 06British Workers See Biggest Fall in Wages - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, they most certainly do enslave people. Don't act like there isn't collusion between companies to create desperate hungry labor pools caused by paying them suppressed wages without benefits for so long. With corrupt laws taking away all abilities for organized labor to effectively strike, there...
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[19:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing new - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:28] <exec> 08└─What is the world coming to?
[19:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─The officers conducted two roadside drug tests on the particles and both came back positive for an illegal substance. Are the roadside tests really so bad they can't tell the difference between sugar and drugs?
[19:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:32] <exec> 08└─Yes. Read an article on this a month or so back. Evidently the field tests for drugs come up positive for a lot of non-drug things.
[19:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:34] <exec> 08└─Then why even have them? Just buy a glow stick from the dollar store, and if it lights up when snapped, then that's a positive result providing the probable cause needed to violate your rights. It sure would be a lot cheaper.
[19:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─Remember those phony bomb detectors sold to Iraq? Just another case of selling snake oil. As for why the police still use it? You have ninnies who are scared of everything and want every bad guy off the street so their precious children can be safe from big bag drug heads. Even if it means inconveni...
[19:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:38] <exec> 08└─After which, it doubles as a self-illuminating cavity search device, which can be then used to violate you further. We expect this breakthrough to save our taxpayers and our strained police departments a good deal of money in the continuing war on drugs.
[19:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:40] <exec> 08└─Well, Krispy Kreme donuts are highly addictive, and maybe now we know why.
[19:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:42] <exec> 08└─To be fair, this was about COPS and DONUTS. The distinction between golden fried nuggets of sugar and a highly addictive psychoactive that bestows superpowers and makes your teeth fall out is purely academic. Not to mention they had just finished their morning "breakfast of champions" and forgot to...
[19:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:2, Insightful) 02The other question... - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:45] <exec> 08└─What is the nature of these "roadside tests" - TWO of them - that determined it to be some sort of illegal narcotic? How many people have been wrongfully locked up in our for-profit prison system based on similar "roadside tests" that weren't cleared later on? I wonder if this person will be compens...
[19:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:The other question... - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:47] <exec> 08└─If the road side test kit was accurate more cops would be doping the samples that they are send to the crime lab, which is worse. Lesser of two evils. Let the cops have their fun and hope the courts will clean up the mess. Fits the agenda too. People with money know enough to *never* allow a public...
[19:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:The other question... - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:49] <exec> 08└─A for-profit prison system will guarantee several things: roadside drug tests that always come up positive (hey, profit just to temporarily hold someone) professional lab tests that come up positive cops that have an incentive to arrest people an educational system that insures a continuous stream o...
[19:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:3, Interesting) 02bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:51] <exec> 08└─A bigger question than "how come cops can't tell the difference between donut glaze and illegal drugs" in my mind is "Why are drugs illegal in the US in the first place"? This is a country founded on the idea of the rights to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So if I want to pursue ha...
[19:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:53] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with you ingesting funny substances as long as it doesn't negatively affect anyone else. (and that includes alcohol, for example.) I do have a problem with people having to commit crimes in order to get their next fix. So there is a line to be drawn somewhere to protect societ...
[19:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:56] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that alcohol was once illegal here. For some drugs it may be racism, surprisingly. Think of it like.. lots of people doing drugs but the police only incarcerate the people they don't like. What's that? My foil hat is on too tight? Ah, yes.. you're probably right :D Still waiting for pot...
[19:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bucket58 [1305] (Score:2, Funny) 02Obvious Joke - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:58] <exec> 08└─You'd have thought that a cop would know what doughnut glaze looked like.
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious Joke - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:00] <exec> 08└─Bad cop. No doughnut for the pig.
[19:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious Joke - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─Bad cop. Been snorting too many Krispy-Kreme doughnuts.
[19:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious Joke - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:04] <exec> 08└─Obvious Joke
[19:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Naturally - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:07] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you give "Florida Man" a badge and gun.
[19:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Funny) 0211 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:09] <exec> 08└─"I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic", she wrote in her report.
[19:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:11 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─You're missing what it really says. Real message here: that 11 years of training is WORTHLESS.
[19:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reality is a B-class movie - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─The Orlando Sentinel reports that, after pulling Daniel Rushing over for failure to stop and speeding
[19:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:OK, I'll ask. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:25] <exec> 08└─I think one of the big issues with it now is that it seems like the only access to the usenet these days is through paid directories. Granted, I didn't get online until the late '90s, but I don't think there's much awareness that it exists or what's actually on there and the lack of accessible index...
[19:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, I'll ask. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 2063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:27] <exec> 08└─If it means that such data is kept in a format that works on my old devices, and is in text format, and has figures or pictures that don't take up 80% of the page, and has no native advertising -- or "mobile first" nonsense -- then I'd donate money to keep it. Have you tried visiting any tech vendor...
[19:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Insightful) 02OK, I'll answer. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:29] <exec> 08└─Why USENET? my question is, Why web2.0? USENET was based on a clean protocol, which means I could pick the client I liked more, and automate tasks to my liking. No need to beg for API keys, no need to curse when sites alter the user interface, remove features, and so on, no need to execute obfuscate...
[19:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:pronounced "mane" - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:33] <exec> 08└─There is a certain symmetry here. The Gnu people insist on pronouncing the 'G' (whereas it is silent in the word gnu), and Gmain claims their 'G' is silent, although by a normal reading in English it should be voiced.
[19:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:01] <exec> 08└─Redneck Olympics: Any event in which a contestant says, "Hey! Summbuddy hol' my beer, and y'all watch THIS!"
[19:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:07] <exec> 08└─Adrenaline junkies also break sound barriers, are the first to space, are the first to experience what the human body can handle. Yes, the probability of living to 80 is fairly low, but that's not a reason to give such harsh judgment against them. I doubt Chuck Yeager felt as you do, and not all adr...
[19:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Pah - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:09] <exec> 08└─Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit
[19:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:What fits the crime - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:06] <exec> 08└─The Library of Congress website's page on this [loc.gov] makes that confusing.
[19:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:34] <exec> 08└─That makes sense given your assumptions, but as noted before, sometimes they wanted to give away the car. The sponsor gets better publicity when the contestant wins the car. They have to strike a balance between giving away the car and ending up with a goat to keep the audience interested.
[19:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:This is stupid. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:35] <exec> 08└─But the assumption is wrong. They want to give away the car often enough to keep the excitement high. Besides that, the car was given to them by a sponsor and it only holds value for the game as long as it is the current year model. They make a lot more producing the show than they will selling the...
[19:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:07] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I can take an hour walk and fantasize what I would do if I find a winning lottery ticket in the gutter. I see your point in general, and have to wonder at economists that still cling to the idea of rational actors in a market. It makes the physicist's spherical cow in a vacuum see...
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[20:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:23] <exec> 08└─How terrible for this poor woman. One of my first thoughts turns out to be mentioned in the original article: "Just think about that: YOUR tax money is going to pay off the US government’s sexual assault victims."
[20:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:24] <exec> 08└─And one of my second thoughts is in there, too: "Gun-toting government thugs are running around committing sexual assault on US citizens so they can continue waging a costly and utterly ridiculous war on plants."
[20:53:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:34] <exec> 08└─The officers conducted two roadside drug tests on the particles and both came back positive for an illegal substance. Are the roadside tests really so bad they can't tell the difference between sugar and drugs?
[20:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:39] <exec> 08└─Remember those phony bomb detectors sold to Iraq? Just another case of selling snake oil. Better than snake-oil, it's the Probable-Causeulator!
[20:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:42] <exec> 08└─Oooh! Oooh! I need one of those! It'll look really nice next to my Correlator-Causationnation device.
[20:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:45] <exec> 08└─No! You throw the person in the water: if they float, they are a witch!...errrr, GUILTY, yeah... Guilty.
[20:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:47] <exec> 08└─And if they sink it's because they are black, right?!
[20:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:49] <exec> 08└─As some terrible people would say, "That solves two problems."
[20:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:51] <exec> 08└─This kind of reminds me of something I remember watching in the Dukes of Hazzard TV show in my youth. Boss Hogg took the money from a government grant to buy radar guns and instead bought hand-held hair dryers and a can of spray paint to give them the right color. One wonders if these roadside drug...
[20:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The other question... - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:58] <exec> 08└─He will be compensated by the court system in accordance with his ability to use the court system. In other words: he ain't got the money to pay a lawyer to sue their asses to kingdom come, so, unless he gets really lucky, he gets nothing. Now, if he had $200K sitting in the bank with nothing to do,...
[20:54:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 694 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:00] <exec> 08└─A bigger question than "how come cops can't tell the difference between donut glaze and illegal drugs" in my mind is "Why are drugs illegal in the US in the first place"? This is a country founded on the idea of the rights to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So if I want to pursue ha...
[20:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with you ingesting funny substances as long as it doesn't negatively affect anyone else. (and that includes alcohol, for example.) I do have a problem with people having to commit crimes in order to get their next fix. So there is a line to be drawn somewhere to protect societ...
[20:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:06] <exec> 08└─You're right - we should legalize drugs so the costs will be decreased and people won't have to commit crimes in order to get their next fix.
[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.vice.com/read/a-former-nixon-aide-admitted-the-war-on-drugs-was-designed-to-screw-over-blacks-and-hippies-vgtrn [vice.com]
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─If you're not happy, you can go to a doctor, who will diagnose your depression and prescribe the proper drugs for it. What's wrong with that?
[20:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:13] <exec> 08└─They don't work. That's what's wrong with that.
[20:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:11 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:22] <exec> 08└─If it was ancient glaze from old donuts, that had been on the floor of his car for a couple months, and hardened up into bits of "rock like substance," it sounds like it would look like certain drugs at first glance. Sounds reasonable to me. The more worrying part is that both of the test kits they...
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:11 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:25] <exec> 08└─Well, fat+sugar is addictive in a way that either alone are not.
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality is a B-class movie - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:28] <exec> 08└─There is a theory that people try to live up to their names *(subconsciously or otherwise). Historically, surnames matched your profession.
[20:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality is a B-class movie - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:30] <exec> 08└─OP here. There is a theory that people try to live up to their names *(subconsciously or otherwise).
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score:2) 02Thanks Mrs Obama ! - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:32] <exec> 08└─Now possession of sugar from donuts is illegal Where will this nanny state stop...
[20:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:34] <exec> 08└─I snorted a gram of that stuff once, it was a wild ride.
[20:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, I'll answer. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:47] <exec> 08└─No need to use the past tense. USENET is still there. Some of it is swamped with spam and idiots, but some of it is in remarkable good condition, including a number of computer-related groups. You can get free server access at eternal-september [eternal-september.org] for text groups. Binaries you'l...
[20:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bad argument - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:49] <exec> 08└─> if I have never heard of this technology before, how important is it? Do you know the names of every medicine that your older friends and relatives take? What Maraviroc and Elvitegravir are? No? Let me assure you - some of those medicines are VERY important to the people taking them! PizzaRollPlin...
[20:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:27] <exec> 08└─The human species can tolerate a lot more males dying than females. So guys doing risky things at their limits or beyond can actually be good for the species. It may explain why so many guys (especially the younger ones) get the urge to push limits in risky ways. If they succeed and breed, the gene...
[20:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Authoritarianism - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:14] <exec> 08└─What's happening isn't that. According to the article, a psychoanalyst who is also a professor—not the government—asked news organisations to stop reporting attackers' names. Several have decided to do so.
[20:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Understanding the problem. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:35] <exec> 08└─Nice WOT, but it totally misstates the actual problem. Please go back and read the Wikipedia link again.
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[21:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:29] <exec> 08└─"War on plants." Kind of reminds me of this quote: "I am not a vegetarian because I am against eating animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate vegetables so much."
[21:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03memememe [3483] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because this behaviour would be way more acceptable towards citizens of any other nationality. USA! USA!
[21:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:32] <exec> 08└─+1 Agree
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:35] <exec> 08└─You are overlooking the obvious benefit to those with little sense of shame. 1. Smear Krispy Kreme around your nether regions. 2. Eat a box of Ex-Lax to really put on a show (RIP GG). 3. Go to a border outpost expecting some dubious attention. 4. PROFIT! The government has just set up an instant ret...
[21:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:37] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding me? For half a million you can search all my orifices several times...with your tongue if you like. (yes, my tongue was in my cheek...)
[21:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Only way to deal with this abuse is - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─JAIL TIME! Done.
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Only way to deal with this abuse is - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, this will be interpreted as locking up the woman for daring not to consent to a search.
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Only way to deal with this abuse is - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─"The officer was just doing the job, in good faith, and should not be personally liable, your honor"... I am really tempted to earn a Godwin point.
[21:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Weasel words (and weasels) - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─"Emotionally shattered she went home feeling like a rape victim." "Feeling", my ass. She was raped. Just because there was no penis involved doesn't make it not rape. (Although there were lots and lots of dicks, I mean agents and doctors.) Of course, none of the rapists involved are going to jail fo...
[21:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:4, Insightful) 02medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:48] <exec> 08└─I'd also file medical complaints against every person even loosely associated with any interaction at the hospital. If doctors/nurses start getting penalized by their licensing board and/or losing their licenses then this stuff would stop real quick.
[21:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:50] <exec> 08└─I'd also file medical complaints against every person even loosely associated with any interaction at the hospital. If doctors/nurses start getting penalized by their licensing board and/or losing their licenses then this stuff would stop real quick.
[21:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Dumb cunt - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:52] <exec> 08└─She should have gone for a billion. THANKS OBAMA!!!
[21:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:54] <exec> 08└─They wanted to charge her for "medical" examinations that they forced on her, which had no medical justification and no benefit to her? That's just plain sick. It's similar to "bullet fees" [wikipedia.org]: the practice of charging the family of an executed prisoner for the bullets used to kill them...
[21:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score:1) 02This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─Searching for some of the names in the suit, it turns out the settlement happened in 2014. [lubbockonline.com]
[21:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:59] <exec> 08└─According to the link you offer, that was her case against the hospital. This article and settlement is around the involvement of U.S. Customs and Border Protection specifically. https://www.aclutx.org [aclutx.org...
[21:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:01] <exec> 08└─Lubbock Online: "A West Texas hospital is settling a lawsuit with a woman [...] Court records show the border protection agency is not part of the settlement." Sovereign Man: "Finally, as of a few days ago, the case has been settled. And the US government agreed to pay Ms. Doe $475,000." The date me...
[21:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:03] <exec> 08└─From the link in your comment: The lawsuit states a medical center employee told the woman that procedures such as the ones performed on her were routinely performed on people brought by border agents.
[21:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02My esteemed canine colleague, Sir Chesterfield.... - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently the dog liked what he smelled, because Ms. Doe was then taken to yet another room, ordered to pull down her pants, and crouch.
[21:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not illegal at all - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:07] <exec> 08└─This is why: https://www.aclu.org [aclu.org] :-( They settled. That isn't a loss.
[21:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:27] <exec> 08└─Why even have a Drug War? Well, we forgot to kill off those in power. It's a big oversight.
[21:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:39] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't illegal, the average price for a heroin fix would be about 15 cents. not 15 dollars. It is probably cheaper than aspirin for actual relevant production costs. Virtually all of that $15 price goes to law enforcement/courts/drug lord profits/etc. Legalizing it would mean being able to hav...
[21:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naturally - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:49] <exec> 08└─Shieet, even bubbas down south look down on Florida.
[21:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So that's what's inside cop-donuts - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:00] <exec> 08└─Everything makes sense now.
[21:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, I'll answer. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:15] <exec> 08└─IE6 saved the old internet for the longest time, with it gone you'll have to welcome your Web 2.0 overlords :D
[21:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:35] <exec> 08└─This lady did it without being in a part of a plane and she ended up with just bruises: http://www.news24.com [news24.com] 2001-02-13 12:22 Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian woman, on her first skydiving jump, survived with only bruises after plunging...
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:37] <exec> 08└─1.5 kilometers is also less than 1/6 of 33k feet :P
[21:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First in a net? What? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:52] <exec> 08└─Redneck Olympics is (or was) an actual event. Of course, they had to change the name after - and this is true - being threatened by the US Olympic Committee [telegraph.co.uk]. But, judging from your name, I'm sure you already knew that :)
[21:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Adrenaline junkies win Darwin awards - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:01] <exec> 08└─This isn't about adrenaline. It's a tech demo for a really good net. Maybe it could be used in space missions.
[21:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pah - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:04] <exec> 08└─"Some guy to jump from 25,000ft without a parachute." This is how the papers in France will report it (except it will be in French and the distance will be 7700 m). They won't mention his name; it'll just be un gars.
[21:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What else will be happening Saturday? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:06] <exec> 08└─Could this spectacle be intended to distract us from something more important that the powers that be will be doing?
[21:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Incomplete information about Le Monde's new pol - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info!
[21:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nail them to the WALL! - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:18] <exec> 08└─Infringement is a much more serious tort than fraud is a crime. Sad but true.
[21:57:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02I want the goat. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:52] <exec> 08└─Because I can't fuck a car.
[21:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mathematics - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:06] <exec> 08└─> thousands of mathematical academics telling the woman with the world's highest IQ that she was wrong. And she wasn't. Some of those probably got the problem second-hand. I know the formulation I got at first was not her full description and had a different conclusion (they hadn't specified he woul...
[21:58:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02H1B increases crime - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:48] <exec> 08└─Citizens who can't find work steal wireless internet access. Citizens who can't find work steal cable tv from the neighbors. Citizens who can't find work steal electricity from the grid. Citizens who can't find work steal food from supermarkets. Citizens who can't find work steal your car and sell t...
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion of Trump^H^H^H^H^HErdogan :) - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─Stalin supposedly said that each dead Russian is one less German bullet.
[22:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Unbelievable they relied on 'solar power' - 06Goodbye, Philae: Rosetta's Comet Lander Lost Forever - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:51] <exec> 08└─I doubt they regret anything, except maybe wearing that shirt on TV. The mission overall was a success. The main mission, which is the orbiter, accomplished all its objectives. The lander accomplished most of its objectives. They always knew that relying on solar power was a bit of a risk, which is...
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[22:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:23] <exec> 08└─Think of that especially rare and delicate ecosystem on the bottom of the ocean floor that I never heard of until yesterday, says the guy with 7 kids. Food for thought. The REASON we are stripping all the resources in sight is because we need them. You want to fix the problem put the baby machine aw...
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:25] <exec> 08└─A post-doc with 7 kids? Yeah fucking right. What nation governs this part of the sea and can regulate the exploitation of these natural resources?
[22:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02CIA cover story becoming reality? - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:27] <exec> 08└─In the 1970s, the CIA arranged to have a ship built for the purpose of salvaging a Soviet submarine. The cover story had to do with these manganese nodules. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because this behaviour would be way more acceptable towards citizens of any other nationality. USA! USA!
[22:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:43] <exec> 08└─I would much rather my money went to compensate the victim than to employ the people harassing her.
[22:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:52] <exec> 08└─if that happened to me, once I collected my wits, out be out for nothing less than scorched earth in anyone/thing/place involved. I'd make it my life mission, using all my income possible, to make everyone's life a living hell. legally, of course. you came at me like that, you just made a terrorist....
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:My esteemed canine colleague, Sir Chesterfield. - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:02] <exec> 08└─"its a dog eat dog world, out there; and today I'm wearing milkbone underwear." --norm from cheers (tv) appropriate for this topic (?)
[22:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not illegal at all - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:05] <exec> 08└─It's unconstitutional. The courts simply do not follow the constitution, and use a modified version instead.
[22:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:not illegal at all - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:07] <exec> 08└─I like how some states are entirely swallowed by the pretext of border protection. Stay classy, federal government.
[22:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Justification for State Rape? - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:10] <exec> 08└─They found what they were looking for. It just wasn't drugs.
[22:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Terrible, but... - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:13] <exec> 08└─The false positive was terrible, no doubt. But unless you are for complete legalization you may consider that the vagina, anus, mouth, and stomach are indeed used as hiding places for contraband. Or do you want everyone with a condomful of whatever drug to always get a free pass when they cross the...
[22:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:45] <exec> 08└─Of course another one of the reasons it won't be legalized is that it is an excellent pain reliever and self-dosing would cut into drug company profits.
[22:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Disobeying Police Egos is Dangerous - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:06] <exec> 08└─This was an extrajudicial punishment done because some cops have egos worthy of petty tyrants. Anyone who disobeys them extraordinarily injures their egos, and gets hit hard by it. In other words, if this man didn't fail to stop he'd have been given a ticket and sent on his way.
[22:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:24] <exec> 08└─Whether it is forced censorship or self-censorship the idea is the same (and go ahead and prove that the self-censorship isn't because someone in the government had a word with the publisher). And it will be counter-productive. Instead of facts you will have speculation. Speculation is impossible to...
[22:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:40] <exec> 08└─'classic' : of a class (+ other bits of stuff) Yes, a nicely chosen equivalent of 'generalisation', that is just what he meant.
[22:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:57:56] <exec> 08└─The "real politic" solution is only in play in the host has the option of revealing the goat and allowing you to switch. In that case, your odds of winning when switching can be as low as 0% (the host only offers to switch when he knows you've picked the car) to 100% (the host is out to help you and...
[22:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:08] <exec> 08└─Its a common rraction from people who have worked their way out of bad situations. Pretty sure there is some demographic layout to who feels that way as well.
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[23:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:30] <exec> 08└─I guess if you missed the point so widely then it's my fault for not getting my message across.
[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─I guess if you missed the joke so widely then it's my fault for not including a laugh track.
[23:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:34] <exec> 08└─The Britannica says the Line Islands are nearby. That suggests that Kiribati and the United States might claim parts of it. If China builds islands there, that could complicate matters. https://www.britannica.com [britannica.com] I came across a page saying that a gall...
[23:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Abundant megafauna, you say? - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:37] <exec> 08└─Let's harvest them too. 2 cm is big enough for kebabs.
[23:53:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:46] <exec> 08└─How terrible for this poor woman. One of my first thoughts turns out to be mentioned in the original article: "Just think about that: YOUR tax money is going to pay off the US government’s sexual assault victims."
[23:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:55] <exec> 08└─You're modded down because we're all thinking it, but you didn't have to say it.
[23:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:57] <exec> 08└─I knew I would be and I didn't care. Some people should remove the stick in their ass. I am a rebel...or something.
[23:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:Weasel words (and weasels) - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:06] <exec> 08└─It gets worse: But as you can imagine, there were strings attached, specifically that the settlement should “not be taken as an admission of liability or fault.”
[23:54:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dale [539] 02medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:08] <exec> 08└─I'd also file medical complaints against every person even loosely associated with any interaction at the hospital. If doctors/nurses start getting penalized by their licensing board and/or losing their licenses then this stuff would stop real quick.
[23:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:11] <exec> 08└─i doubt the doctors and nurses were willing participants. they were likely orders by the government officials, and everyone knows if you don't follow instructions of government officials you're a terrorist
[23:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed, performing procedures they know are not in the patient's interest and against patient consent are cardinal sins (and crimes) in the medical profession. They should be expelled from it as a result. Perhaps after considerable ethical re-training they could re-apply. As for the customs people,...
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck you cunts - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you think she should have settled for 500k? That's barely a down payment for a SF apartment. For real? She should have fucked the Fed over.
[23:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Terrible, but... - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:33] <exec> 08└─Or do you want everyone with a condomful of whatever drug to always get a free pass when they cross the border because they know they can't be cavity searched?
[23:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible, but... - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:35] <exec> 08└─Illegal aliens now have more rights than US citizens do.
[23:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02bureaucratic overreach, what a shocker - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:37] <exec> 08└─Not literally, of course.
[23:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mohummed, Abdeslam, Malik, etc. - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:53] <exec> 08└─The last killer in Munich a week ago - he was an Iranian Muslim born in Germany to Iranian immigrants. His name was David Ali Sonbody. Believe it or not, some news organizations are calling him a right-wing killer, because he supposedly admired Anders Breivik. Yes, the media is literally trying to t...
[23:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:28] <exec> 08└─Easy to say. But far from true. You don't get to be the most prosperous country in the world if your public education system is total shit.
[23:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:31] <exec> 08└─> There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here. Its a defense mechanism. As a kid he was a social outcast. So he reacted by deciding that his social failures were not a function of his poor skills but rather that everybody else sucked. He aged physically, but intellectually he never matured out o...