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[00:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02False Advertising on install time - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─Tethered laptop to my phone. Is taking more than 15 minutes to install. Laptop is worthless without operating system. I want a refund. Lies! All lies!!
[00:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:07] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing seems to be a sue ball magnet. I would advise any company wanting to be sued into oblivion by the Apple behemoth to take this approach. I especially like this line from TFA: If Apple contacts us with concerns we'll work together to solve them.
[00:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02hackintosh - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:09] <exec> 08└─I set up a Lenovo G500 with osx just to give it a shot a couple years ago. I liked it enough that it is the secondary boot on my desktop (which is unfortunately unavailable right now due to a lack of Nvidia 10X0 drivers). I could run in software mode or something like that, but meh. It's a whole lot...
[00:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:hackintosh - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:11] <exec> 08└─Also, yes, the Lenovo came with "Secure" boot. No, it wasn't as problem to get past. The hack I had to do to the bios image to cripple the wifi card whitelist (Burn in hell, Lenovo, you nasty assholes) was the only real bios level hurdle I needed to overcome to get full hardware functionality. The s...
[00:02:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 928 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:21] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks doesn't give a fuck about anyone, or anything, other than making hard to come by information readily available to the public in its RAW form to encourage change. It would be one thing if Wikileaks had the goal of improving society, helping people, serving the common good, but that is not W...
[00:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:24] <exec> 08└─not the rendition/torture of random mooselimbs
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─A Møøse once bit my sister. No realli! She was Karving her initals on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge MÃ...
[00:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:29] <exec> 08└─Bite marks are my fetish and your sister is høt.
[00:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:31] <exec> 08└─readily available to the public in its RAW form Condoms are such a bore.
[00:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:33] <exec> 08└─>I would choose a different whistle-blower network unfortunately there aren't many others with the resources and the trust(from me at least, this is subjective) that WikiLeaks does. I don't think even Wikileaks even has the manpower to figure out what names need to be censored. You'd have to read th...
[00:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wikileaks iz teh Good Guyz - 06Wikileaks Screening - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:39] <exec> 08└─I keep trying! to kill me! but the spork! is too flexy! it only bends!
[00:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score:1) 02AP should focus on their own failings - 06Wikileaks Screening - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:41] <exec> 08└─Journalism has been failing for 20 years, maybe you should investigate that AP. A group comes about that actually tries to hold governments to account, rather than be their best friend, and these "Journalists" are complaining about it. Cant see the forest for the trees. Maybe AP should investigate w...
[00:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:58] <exec> 08└─The real reason, just look at this face: https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] Everyone on the site is lusty for Musky.
[00:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:59] <exec> 08└─There are no millionaires aboard the satellite.
[00:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:19] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean that you should stoop to their level.
[00:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:calling out policies is burning bridges - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:27] <exec> 08└─Or tell your new company you need to give two weeks notice, and ask if they are willing to start you earlier if your old one lets you leave early.
[00:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Employment at Will - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:35] <exec> 08└─That's only for certain jobs, but yeah, Employment at will is nice if the market for your job is small and really bad if the market is large.
[00:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:soulless? hmm - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:42] <exec> 08└─>> It taught me my attitude about my job and matters mattered a lot; >> smiling and being ready to work warmed people up to me and I got a lot of leniency the times I really needed it Fixed that for you, It taught me my skin color mattered a lot; smiling and being white warmed people up to me and I...
[00:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Start unionizing - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:49] <exec> 08└─better plan: try to unionize the place without giving any notice whatsoever. They'll try to fire you, and then it's illegal. Probably not worth the money and time to press charges though, just send a complaint to the NLRB or something. And if they don't try to fire you, quit and don't show up to wor...
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Tech fix for backlogs - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:00] <exec> 08└─In Holland, when you're put into a queue, instead of just getting music and ads, you get a recording repeatedly telling you how many are in the queue ahead of you. You can give up immediately without wasting much of your time. Or you can wait and see how fast the queue is diminishing, and make a dec...
[00:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me take the employer's side... - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:09] <exec> 08└─It's a tough business with thin margins that needs to stand up for its employees, and thicken those margins up enough that somebody who is really sick can take time off without fear of termination. Sure, the kind of employees you get there aren't very good, but if you treated them a little better yo...
[00:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Unsurprising - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 1949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:44] <exec> 08└─There has been evidence for years of dogs with a specific vocabulary of over several hundred nouns. They can comprehend nouns and verbs (well, the more intelligent breeds at least). I think of them as being similar to a three year old child. While there are the simple commands you train them to obey...
[00:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:That sounds pretty stupid - 06Oregon State Fair Features Award-Winning Cannabis Plants - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:04] <exec> 08└─It's like a chili contest where the judges don't wait for the chili to fully digest. It's like a wine contest where the judges don't swallow.
[00:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:with an EV, how do you move? - 06California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:25] <exec> 08└─This... does not work with an EV.
[00:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:open source drivers - 06Intel Announces Kaby Lake Mobile Processors - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:52] <exec> 08└─Many of the Linux drivers are actually better than the windows drivers and have a much longer support life. Currently I have a laptop with an Intel chip with the on board intel hd 3000 graphics. Intel stopped adding openGL support beyond 3.1 to the windows drivers and gave up support on the chip, wh...
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[01:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:09] <exec> 08└─There was a day when Apple worked together with manufacturers of Mac clones. I have seen the clones, and they were decent machines for their day. That day, however, is not today.
[01:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:11] <exec> 08└─Yep. I remember that day as well. It was a time when Apple could not decide if it was a hardware company or a software company. Steve Jobs returned and decreed that it was a hardware company. It's obvious now when you consider that Apple now gives away its operating systems, with the exception of Sn...
[01:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:13] <exec> 08└─It's like asking a cat and a mouse to play nicely together.
[01:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:17] <exec> 08└─Can Apple just get a decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price? It's not like people have been asking them for years or have been forced to switch to fucking Windows to meet the requirements of their software. [dcinema.me] "Darth Vaders Butt Plug" [apple.com] need not apply!
[01:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Apple will vigorously protect its trademark - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:19] <exec> 08└─Hacbook is confusingly similar to MacBook. "Confusingly similar" is a legal Term Of Art. The principle of estoppel leads trademark holders to lose their trademark if they don't protect them. Usually a Cease & Desist order is all it takes. I've seen the instructions for printing the Apple logo. They...
[01:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Elitebook Trackpad - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:21] <exec> 08└─Elitebooks are the best "prosumer/business" builds, on par with the Dell Latitude/Precision line (and miles ahead of anything Lenovo has released since 2007), but they have one annoying little aspect: to disable the trackpad and use the trackpoint only, one must be using a Microsoft Windows OS. It i...
[01:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Informative) 02Rife with problems - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 3217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:24] <exec> 08└─Psystar's primary mistake back in the day was actually buying copies of OS X from Apple and installing it on the machines they were selling. This was such a blatant violation of Apple's terms of use for their software that it allowed Apple to rapidly get them completely shut down. These guys seem to...
[01:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:40] <exec> 08└─Be careful with goals. They have a tendency to morph into something completely different over time.
[01:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:42] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? P.S - Were you the gentleman helping people relocate to South America?
[01:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:AP should focus on their own failings - 06Wikileaks Screening - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:50] <exec> 08└─there might be an actual story there.
[01:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unsolved mystery - 06Wikileaks Screening - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:52] <exec> 08└─Where is the revenge porn of the ex-gfs of the Russian hackers who supply Wikileaks?
[01:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 2128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:11] <exec> 08└─One of the questions is, what is Elon Musk trying to do? SpaceX isn't publicly traded, but some sources claim that Musk provided 50% of the initial investment and has options to buy more stocks if SpaceX meets certain milestones in the coming years. He has stated that he doesn't want to trust the co...
[01:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:13] <exec> 08└─It's totally not the fault of Musky that all the male colonists were assigned defective seats which irradiated their nuts and left them all sterile. Musky wasn't wearing a lead codpiece on purpose either. Musky always wears a lead codpiece. It's coincidence the only surviving sperm on Mars is inside...
[01:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:15] <exec> 08└─Musky always wears a lead codpiece.
[01:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:17] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is talking about launching permanent human residents to Mars in 2024.
[01:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:19] <exec> 08└─You are basically cheerleading for a commercial entity that wants to sell (near)space flights to millionares.
[01:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:30] <exec> 08└─Also, what bridges are you going to burn that you care about? Your boss in a company with stupendously bad policies who's tolerated it, put employees into it, through it, and watched them leave? Do you really ever want to work with that person ever again?
[01:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:41] <exec> 08└─Singing "Take this job and ......".
[01:03:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Have you passed the 90 day mark? - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:52] <exec> 08└─Usually the first 90 days is considered a probationary period. This usually means that the employer can let you go without any notice or compensation. This also means that you can leave without any notice. Review the terms of your employment, and if you don't have any obligation, then thank them ver...
[01:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me take the employer's side... - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:18] <exec> 08└─> ... but nobody waits on hold for more than a few minutes. Well, maybe most people. When I want to get through I put the call on speakerphone and go about my business until I hear someone answer. Might be an hour on hold. Sometimes this gives me an opening to break the call center worker out of the...
[01:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:42] <exec> 08└─When my mother was in final stages of cancer my family was taking shifts between being at the hospital and at home. I was at home when both dogs started howling. About a minute later I got a call saying my mother's health had rapidly deteriorated in the last few minutes and I should hurry down to th...
[01:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you Rick Romero - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:00] <exec> 08└─Have your tried the stupid dog test? http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] Whether or not you are a dog owner, if you have 10 minutes, i would recommend you read it, it's hilarious. -dbe
[01:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solution: Child brides - 06World Health Organization: Gonorrhea Becoming Untreatable - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:19] <exec> 08└─Solution: Child brides. Duet ch 22, verse 28-29, hebrew.
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution: Child brides - 06World Health Organization: Gonorrhea Becoming Untreatable - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─Duet? I don't know that chapter.
[01:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Musky - 06Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Discovered at 11.1 Billion Light Years from Earth - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:31] <exec> 08└─Where's the fun in that? :)
[01:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:max orbital distance? - 06Two New Kuiper Belt Objects Boost the Case for "Planet Nine" - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:48] <exec> 08└─AC who referred to it as Nemesis here. That's what I was thinking of. Looking at that Wikipedia article, the orbital period of this Planet X would only be 15,000 years. Thanks for the links. I didn't know this (from muller.lbl.gov): The expected orbit lifetime when the solar system was formed was (...
[01:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:with an EV, how do you move? - 06California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:52] <exec> 08└─Well, I didn't have to drive a truck, didn't have strangers touching all my stuff, and didn't have to pay $$$$$ for special car shipping. I got at least 2 full days on each end, so more than 48 hours. I got so far ahead of the truck driver that I stopped to spend most of a day at the Jacksonville Zo...
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[02:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:58] <exec> 08└─The Education Department is doing students a favor, because they would price themselves out of all available jobs by getting college degrees. With a college degree on your resume, you don't get a retail stocking job, you get declined the interview and shown the door. You can try interviewing for a j...
[02:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─A co-worker just finished his "degree" at ITT. He's told me some of the horror stories. They are an institution that does not care about excellence in education. They care about profit only. Likewise, the students don't care about getting an excellent education, either. They care about getting the p...
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:02] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a system that rewords people who can provide a product or service demanded by paying customers. That's what these online IT schools were providing. Capitalism is a great system, but it's not perfect. Government bureaucracy and regulation is often terrible, but sometimes it's necessary...
[02:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02inaccurate - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:04] <exec> 08└─The school wasn't forbidden from accepting any students at all. The federal government forbade ITT Tech from admitting students who use federal fianancial aid. In response, ITT Tech decided to entirely suspend admitting new students. http://www.businessinsider.com
[02:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:inaccurate - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:06] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, because there's no difference. For-profit schools salivate for G.I. Bill money and appeal to the student who doesn't want to be forced to take 5 semesters of Black Chicano Faggot Studies just to get a degree in basic electronics.
[02:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:18] <exec> 08└─This needs a +1, OMG! May I write in Cat/Mouse 2016? These two make me proud to be a mammal supremacist! Either that or the mouse is actually the Brain [wikipedia.org] and clearly has the cat under mind control…! Is NIMH [wikipedia.org] involved? Algernon, is that you?
[02:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:20] <exec> 08└─I think this is the first time I've wanted a +1 Adorable mod on SoylentNews.
[02:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:25] <exec> 08└─No, they can't. Selling "decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price" is a low-margin business. And because of how Apple's marketing works, it will cannibalize their high-margin business -- people will make price comparisons between two Apple products that they currently won't make betwe...
[02:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:27] <exec> 08└─Can Apple just get a decent mid-tower with PCIe slots for a reasonable price?
[02:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Hackintosh all the way - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:32] <exec> 08└─It's great that they're shipping a machine that has been tested for compatability. I use hackintoshes for scientific computing and have done some interesting builds (2 laptops: a Fujitsu with a touch screen and a Dell mini-9) as well as a dual Xeon beast that is my primary workstation (and the 2nd f...
[02:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:46] <exec> 08└─For extra fun, read this in the voice of Zap Brannigan trying to hit on a woman.
[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:45] <exec> 08└─This is not just about the relationship you may have with the company in the future. It's about the impression you leave with all of the other employees that witness your departure. The workplace is much smaller than you might think, and you never know when you'll be working with someone again. Exam...
[02:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:max orbital distance? - 06Two New Kuiper Belt Objects Boost the Case for "Planet Nine" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:46] <exec> 08└─There's some big stars out there. How far away can a blue super-giant cause orbital perturbations? Come to that, how far would the deadly radiation zone be from a blue super-giant?
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[03:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:11] <exec> 08└─Honestly I don't care about what career prospects my degree will get me. I'm here to learn, piece of paper or no.
[03:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:14] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a system that rewords people who can provide a product or service demanded by paying customers. That's what these online IT schools were providing.
[03:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:16] <exec> 08└─They are an institution that does not care about excellence in education
[03:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Free Lunch for the Students - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:21] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, if your school closes down all your federal loans get forgiven. I wouldn't transfer. I'd stay until the end, maybe even staying an extra year if closure was a sure thing, then get all my loans forgiven when the school shuts down, and THEN go to a different college.
[03:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:34] <exec> 08└─No engines, no computers, just the wind and the sea and the stars to guide you."
[03:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:35] <exec> 08└─PICARD: Just imagine what is was like. No engines, no computers, just the wind and the sea and the stars to guide you. RIKER: Bad food, brutal discipline… no women.
[03:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:37] <exec> 08└─I once had roommates that stood shifts to monitor the Loran C transmitter stations and tweak the timing to adjust for propagation delays when the atmosphere changed densities. They said it was horribly mind numbingly boring 12 hour shifts followed by four days of sleep and internet.
[03:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Elitebook Trackpad - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:47] <exec> 08└─My X1 Carbon has been rock solid...of course I bought it for $700 off retail by getting a refurbished model. Maybe you just put it back together correctly?
[03:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:response - 06Wikileaks Screening - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:58] <exec> 08└─aaannnnd.. there's the bluff! Radical Goverment: That dude has an illegal sexual preference, put him in our database and send out the buttcracking brigade! wiki leaks: We found this database about this government violating human rights AP: See if they had redacted that information the poor dude woul...
[03:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:04] <exec> 08└─Since when did comprehension require using a word in a sentence? You think babies don't comprehend words before they can speak? Are mutes unable to comprehend anything? If I tell you what a ball is, do you not understand until you use it yourself in a sentence yourself?
[03:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:07] <exec> 08└─You must be a special advanced lifeforms that can understand meaning correctly then. Except the part where for some reason you claim dogs don't alert on a trespasser by yawning, even though no one said they did. That imaginary meaning was only ever in your own mind, but you sure did teach it a lesso...
[03:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:max orbital distance? - 06Two New Kuiper Belt Objects Boost the Case for "Planet Nine" - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:09] <exec> 08└─Well, on the other side of things is how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly long the time is that the Sun will be around. Our sun has been around 4.5 billion years, which is something like 60 million human lifetimes. And it has another 4.5 billion years or so to go before the sun finally goes dark. Tha...
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[04:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02It could be good - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:59] <exec> 08└─If it is allowed that ad networks that serve up malware are blocked at the ISP level; it will force ad network providers to look much harder at what they are serving up.... But then again I'm sure that it will be too difficult to actually vet all content; so they will obviously try for a solution wh...
[04:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─I was like you, then The Obama was elected, and I haven't found work since. During the Inauguration Of The Century, all of my coworkers blasted His Holy Speech out of their cubicles. I was the one who hadn't voted for Him, and I didn't much care to listen to His Holy Speech. I was called a racist, a...
[04:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:11] <exec> 08└─You are half-right. An ITT degree does brand you a loser. Suckered by a rip-off college with the lowest possible standards. Well, maybe loser isn't the right word. Mark is probably better.
[04:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:16] <exec> 08└─This is why I fear for the USA. What will it take to reinstate the values you grew up with?
[04:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just need the paper - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:19] <exec> 08└─Suppose you want to fly a plane for the Air Force. You'll need a degree, any degree. It could be from the San Francisco School of Mortuary Science, which in fact offers exactly one degree in exactly that subject. It could be a degree in dance, art history, trombone, black studies, or whatever. You j...
[04:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just need the paper - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone who 'just wants the paper' shouldn't be attending colleges or universities at all; they don't have an academic mindset. Sounds like they would be better served by trade schools, if the situation wasn't so terrible at least. Also, employers aren't going to stop requiring degrees for everything...
[04:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02financialization of the student loan program - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:24] <exec> 08└─> There is something very rotten at work in the American society that such an institution could ever flourish. Its the financialization of the student loan program. The government guarantees payment even if the student defaults so there is no risk to the "college" in matriculating even the least qua...
[04:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The federal government forbade...'' - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:28] <exec> 08└─What you said is true. A little further down in TFS, however: The state of California, meanwhile, is taking things a step further by ordering the school [PDF] to stop accepting any new enrollments at its 15 California locations as of September 1.
[04:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Free Lunch for the Students - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:31] <exec> 08└─We'll see if those ITT credits transfer.
[04:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:53] <exec> 08└─Why a hackintosh for a server instead of Linux or bsd?
[04:03:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:11] <exec> 08└─not the rendition/torture of random mooselimbs
[04:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nsa [206] (Score:2, Insightful) 02smear summary - 06Wikileaks Screening - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:27] <exec> 08└─The summary reads like a smear that doesn't allow for the possibility that Wikileaks as an organization and type of technology, has been suffering severe human rights violating persecution for many years now. Now, certainly it was a predictable potential consequence of their actions. But that doesn'...
[04:04:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:soulless? hmm - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:31] <exec> 08└─Having a policy achieves that, there is no need to have a hostile policy.
[04:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:19] <exec> 08└─Pro dog trainer here with 45 years and upward of 3000 dogs worth of experience. Dumb dogs understand at the level of a 2-3YO child. Smart dogs are more like a 5-6YO child, and can get pretty close to the same level of vocabulary, comprehension, and reasoning as that child. Just everyday talking to t...
[04:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice to have confirmation - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:23] <exec> 08└─Lots of dogs have to work, even if it is like mine, having to go outside whenever my son does (bear country). Now that she's old, she doesn't enjoy getting woken up and made to go out into the wet cold. Still an easy life but not as easy as the cat has it. While people don't like to talk about their...
[04:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only state bureaucrats are happy - 06California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:21] <exec> 08└─No, I think he's saying that if California goes this route, it's going to fuck over a number of poor people, the very people many politicians claim they want to protect. So instead of imposing broad restrictions that create such collateral damage, maybe they should make a more focused effort.
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[05:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fire all the Coders - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:03] <exec> 08└─If I can buy a computer for $9, why do coders expect to be paid? They're experts at $9 technology! Coders are fucking worthless! When the computer breaks, you buy another for $9. When you want some apps coded, you get a couple of shitstained codemoneys off the back of a truck, and give them half a p...
[05:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Clarifornication - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:04] <exec> 08└─Accessories are also offered to add VGA or HDMI output to the CHIP. It appears that owners of the PocketCHIP would have to take it apart to use those.
[05:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:23] <exec> 08└─> I was like you, then The Obama was elected, and I haven't found work since. Yeah, a black man becomes president and now you are permanently out of work. Coincidence? I think not! Trump! Trump! Trump! > Since then I've done nothing except learn, but learning is the accumulation of useless knowledge...
[05:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:24] <exec> 08└─Like I told I guy I know about how I can't find work and all I do is post shit online in my fucking abundant free time, and he said, well yeah, you can't find work because you're a racist.
[05:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:31] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a system that rewords people who can provide a product or service Nope. That's called "business". There doesn't have to be a Capitalist anywhere in the loop for what you described. A Capitalist is someone who makes money from money. He EXTRACTS money from the system. He does not have t...
[05:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:33] <exec> 08└─Paris Hilton sitting on her ass, waiting for a check to arrive is an example of Capitalism.
[05:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just need the paper - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:39] <exec> 08└─Suppose you want to fly a plane for the Air Force.
[05:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:42] <exec> 08└─There is something very rotten at work in the American society that such an institution could ever flourish.
[05:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:inaccurate - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:46] <exec> 08└─I know you workin' day and night to get a college degree Bet nobody that you've been with even know you a freak, right? You know you only do that with me, right? Yeah, double checkin' on you You know I never put the pressure on you You the only one I know could fit it all in the ass
[05:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''if your school closes down...' - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:51] <exec> 08└─if your school closes down[,] all your federal loans get forgiven Heh. That's a good one. Now tell us the one about The Three Bears. If I remember correctly Welcome to the 21st Century, Mr. van Winkle. Things have changed since Neoliberals grabbed control. They rewrote the rules so that student debt...
[05:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe the dogs can only distinguish nonsense - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:58] <exec> 08└─Eh? If you speak to me in made up words or a different language I have never been exposed to I wouldn't understand it either... does that mean I don't understand the meaning of words? I do believe dogs can associate meaning, in their terms, to words. I have a dog that understands well enough when I...
[05:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't like the guy... - 06New Zealand Judge to Allow Kim Dotcom to Livestream Extradition Appeal - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:27] <exec> 08└─As a NZ citizen I was appalled when NZ AOS (Armed Offenders Squad, basically SWAT) busted into Kim's house and took him by force. The guy is a big fat slob; he wasn't armed or posing any sort of threat, basically there was no where for him to go and running wasn't an option. All that was required wa...
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[06:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the Coders - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:53] <exec> 08└─Because your chip is a very fancy nonfunctional credit card without software?
[06:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:55] <exec> 08└─This kickstarter was very well run -- I got all the stuff I was promised in a timely fashion. I can't say exactly when I got my PocketChip , but I feel like it was around the early part of summer -- maybe Juneish, certainly by July. Based on date stamps of files on my desktop, I started receiving th...
[06:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:57] <exec> 08└─I scanned the articles and it seems they miss the point to some degree. I didn't notice prominent mention of the exposed GPIO, power, and ground pins on both the Chip and the PocketChip, although on the PocketChip, you'll want to solder on a header.
[06:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:59] <exec> 08└─probably put together a monitoring system for my boat so I can get messages if it starts sinking.
[06:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:08] <exec> 08└─China censors the internet, nerds scream, "THAT'S JUST EVIL!" Europe censors the internet, nerds say, "Cool, thanks!"
[06:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:21] <exec> 08└─and he said, well yeah, you can't find work because you're a racist.
[06:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:05] <exec> 08└─OSX is BSD. Why not Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux! Only Linux is Linux and you should use Linux because Linux! Linux!
[06:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My musings on the subject - 06Wikileaks Screening - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:39] <exec> 08└─1) Where is the proof that anything Wikileaks has done has caused any damage to decent people? 2) Any kind of data scrubbing takes alot of time and money. Wikileaks needs more money, today you can donate, including using bitcoin. 3) Given the choice of current situation or deciding to withhold any d...
[06:05:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:24] <exec> 08└─"My dog LOVES me". No it doesn't, you feed it.
[06:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score:2) 02Re:Only state bureaucrats are happy - 06California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:21] <exec> 08└─Gravis, So its government's job to punish groups of people who have committed no crime other than to not be able to afford to live close to their workplace? You advocate punishing groups by government fiat without any regard to individual circumstance - and rewarding favored groups, commanding price...
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[07:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Something missing - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:15] <exec> 08└─I wonder what is the experience of other internet users with a mouse without back button?
[07:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And why do mice still have moving parts??????????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:17] <exec> 08└─A mouse should be a laser on the bottom and a multitouch screen on the top. No clicks. Build it, assholes.
[07:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:19] <exec> 08└─Touchscreen, WTF? I want feedback of button pushes. Does not have to be noise though.
[07:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:21] <exec> 08└─Oh it's you. You're the reason I can't get a touchscreen mouse with no moving parts. See, I have a touch mouse. I bought it because I assumed with the entire top surface being touch-sensitive for touch gestures, it would have zero buttons. Not so. The button is on the bottom instead of the top. Whic...
[07:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm gonna get one, wife a light sleeper - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:23] <exec> 08└─Cool! News for nerds! Important stuff that matters! Oops, wrong site.
[07:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Model M Mouse - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:25] <exec> 08└─I got my Model M Mouse in 1987, it weighs about six pounds and cleaning the ball and rollers sort sucks -- I do have to wear hearing protection when I use it for more than two hours straight, but let me tell you, you know when you clicked something. (typed on my Nov 06, 1989 Model M keyboard -- good...
[07:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:28] <exec> 08└─But if your cow-orker is Ethanol_fueled, the reduction in noise will not even be noticeable.
[07:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Eth create mouse clicks by ramming his angel-hair-diameter whiskey dick into the holes in the mini-DIN port sequentially at high speed?
[07:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How about re-making one of your cult products? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:32] <exec> 08└─Logitech no longer makes a corded thumb track-ball. They are dead to me.
[07:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score:1) 02Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:34] <exec> 08└─Noise cancelling headphones? A co-worker used to wear industrial strength ear muffs.
[07:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:36] <exec> 08└─A co-worker used to wear industrial strength ear muffs.
[07:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02I want my tactile keyboard - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:38] <exec> 08└─Nope, not bothered by clicking mice. What I am bothered by is these pieces of sh*t mushy keyboards that have become commonplace.
[07:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all the Coders - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to pay more for software than I pay for hardware. The bar just got lowered.
[07:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:54] <exec> 08└─How do you feel about the PocketCHIP's keyboard? I find it incredibly hard to type incorrectly on, but also slow. I think it's totally usable as a portable terminal for writing code and running remote tasks, certainly preferable to a tablet with a soft keyboard. And the screen can comfortably fit 80...
[07:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:00] <exec> 08└─Did you ever notice that no one pirates Mac OS's? Did you not wonder why? More puzzling, however, is why anyone would ever pirate MS operating systems. Because it might be, as Adm. Akbhar says, a trap.
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[08:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Frist You, I Got Mine! - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[08:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Political action - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:58] <exec> 08└─It is good to have it, people need awareness. The system is not political, though, so you also need the common people to acquire more independence through technology. The one percent is not about money only, but land, energy, knowledge, culture. Every breakthrough that frees people (solar power, fre...
[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02"communities of color"? - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─WTF? I think the problem being described by "perennially witty guy Jim Hightower" is central banking; as Wilson put it after signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our sy...
[08:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:"communities of color"? - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:02] <exec> 08└─So, one must wonder, why the haemorrhaging fuck did he sign the thing in the first place? I'm glad to see some conscience here, and never knew he said this, but it's a day late and trillions of dollars short...
[08:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:04] <exec> 08└─...incoming BAWWWWW from the usual suspects (The Shitey Uzzard, J-Mo, Kyuubey, etc) in 3...2...1...don't salt your snacks, they'll be providing plenty in their ongoing search for a philosophical justification for self-serving egoism!
[08:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:07] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm, soy sauce on popcorn.
[08:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something missing - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:16] <exec> 08└─Great. https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[08:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:21] <exec> 08└─Until I can get a clickless mouse, I use a mouse with one hand and a touchpad with the other hand. I point with the mouse and tap with the touchpad. To reduce wear on the mouse button, I only right-click with the mouse. It's a convoluted arrangement, but it works.
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Model M .. how did they know? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:31] <exec> 08└─Yikes, I still have one of these beasts, somewhere in a crate in the attic. Loud but reliable. Has one of those BIG round connectors - a long long time before PS/2 or USB.
[08:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Who cares - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:33] <exec> 08└─I have an old IBM mechanical keyboard on my worstation. One coworker has started wearning ear muffs, I'm not taking the hint....
[08:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:35] <exec> 08└─........this means wor!
[08:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:58] <exec> 08└─At least they are fucking. Unlike you.
[08:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:59] <exec> 08└─China censors the internet, nerds scream, "THAT'S JUST EVIL!" Europe removes the need for adblockers, nerds say, "Cool, thanks!"
[08:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Bitch bitch bitch - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:01] <exec> 08└─Second observation: the turd of an end product is a whopping mere 45 pages
[08:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:14] <exec> 08└─It's such a shame I can't get a paid gig of attending interviews as the American loser who never gets the job because H1B. Do you even read the news? It's all layoffs, outsourcing, and H1B. That's the Obama economy.
[08:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:29] <exec> 08└─Even better. One of the guys running one of these "institutions" is running for President.
[08:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:PR nightmare in the wings - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:49] <exec> 08└─Less than 30 minutes on the hour meter!
[08:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:14] <exec> 08└─Think of your own health too. Staying there longer won't be good for you, and even if you think you can handle the stress it can cause all sorts of health problems. When the environment is that toxic, it's best to just get out.
[08:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like taking 3 days off without a doctor's note would "free" of of these predators. Play their own policy at them, relax, smile (and wave), and then start your new job.
[08:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe the dogs can only distinguish nonsense - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:54] <exec> 08└─What he could mean is: it is possible to train e.g. a neural network to distinguish between words and non-words. That doesn't mean the network knows what the words mean. It's just capable of picking up some regularity in words that doesn't occur in made up words. And I very much doubt that this stud...
[08:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pet = animal slave - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:57] <exec> 08└─If you love animals, don't take pets.
[08:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I had a friend who worked at the health departm - 06World Health Organization: Gonorrhea Becoming Untreatable - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:03] <exec> 08└─Number of partners is the major risk factor, from the sound of it. In case you're not familiar with it, the U-Haul joke is: Q - what does a lesbian do on the second date? A - she drives up in a moving van with all her stuff! This is tongue in cheek (or something else...sorry, not sorry), but uninten...
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[09:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:"communities of color"? - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─For the same reason a lot of us do really stupid things. Its hard to resist a man all dressed up in suit and tie, hand outstretched for a shake, and only thing needed to bring a smile to his face is to sign his papers. We are trained from children not to disappoint.
[09:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Semi-OT: "Prosperity" - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:05] <exec> 08└─I was on a website the other day playing with "p-hacking" - I could select certain political-based inputs (you chose what you're interested in), and see how they corresponded to prosperity-based outputs (again, you chose how you want to measure that) - the website would work out the p-value, with a...
[09:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Semi-OT: "Prosperity" - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:08] <exec> 08└─it was easy for me to speculate that stock market price would in no way be correlated with the meaningful measures of prosperity.
[09:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about re-making one of your cult products? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:26] <exec> 08└─Well, they probably found that too few customers had corded thumbs.
[09:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:How about re-making one of your cult products? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:27] <exec> 08└─They died to me when they stopped making the original logitech portable trackman. For those of you too young to remeber that one - it was wonderful; the thing can be rested in you hand (imagine how you fold your hands in you lap when sitting down) and operated with a minimal and very natural thumb-m...
[09:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:31] <exec> 08└─Your mouse smells? Are you sure you bought a computer mouse, and not an animal?
[09:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Model M .. how did they know? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:35] <exec> 08└─Model M in the attic? Sell it, they are valuable. Mine's in front of me. But get off my lawn, the keyboards used as terminals to IBM mainframes back then had a small speaker inside that gave a loud click when you typed because the click of the key was considered not loud enough. You could turn the s...
[09:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:01] <exec> 08└─Look, asshole, an ISP does not get to censor my content. When I detect an ISP is modifying my content in any way, I cancel my service and go elsewhere. I have before, and I will again. I choose which ads I want to block. Absolutely no one makes that choice for me. Not ever. Also, FUCK. YOU.
[09:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sue ball time! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:54] <exec> 08└─These two make me proud to be a mammal supremacist!
[09:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong market - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:09] <exec> 08└─People don't buy Macs to run MaCoS 10, they buy Macs to look cool at Starbucks.
[09:04:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02Re:response - 06Wikileaks Screening - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:19] <exec> 08└─aaannnnd.. there's the bluff! Radical Goverment: That dude has an illegal sexual preference, put him in our database and send out the buttcracking brigade! wiki leaks: We found this database about this government violating human rights AP: See if they had redacted that information the poor dude woul...
[09:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02Re:PR nightmare in the wings - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do have insurance, and SES said that the insurance premium difference between a new rocket and the used rocket was insignificant. I'm sure any additional premiums were greatly offset by the discount provided by SpaceX.
[09:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:07] <exec> 08└─I'm interested when new lower-power-than-ever-despite-more-processing-grunt-than-ever ARMs and MIPS and whatever appear on the market and are reported here. Does that make me a cheerleader for the commercial entities that produce them? Nope. I like technology advancing. Launching is expensive, launc...
[09:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Musky - 06Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Discovered at 11.1 Billion Light Years from Earth - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:28] <exec> 08└─No Linux version yet.
[09:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Only state bureaucrats are happy - 06California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:32] <exec> 08└─What you're talking about exists and has been around for decades. It's called a ground source heat pump (GSHP). The principle is 6ft down the earth is a constant 55F.
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[10:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Company Towns gone virtual - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─Come join UberTown where you get paid in UberBucks you can spend at the UberStore! Install the UberApp today! HA HA AHA HA AHA HAHA
[10:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Company Towns gone virtual - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:03] <exec> 08└─The sharing economy's greatest star, Uber. After all the exploitation of its willing serfs, Uber will simply toss them aside in the gutter to die. All paid drivers will have to face off against the autobots soon enough. Better get a job as a security guard, cop, or bouncer, while those positions are...
[10:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Company Towns gone virtual - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:05] <exec> 08└─Give me basic income and give me death.
[10:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:21] <exec> 08└─The key insight, as always: If you subsidize something, you get more of it; if you penalize something, you get less of it. - Corporate cronyism is currently subsidized by revolving doors and outright political corruption. Election finances are only a small part of this. There are a lot of pieces to...
[10:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:35] <exec> 08└─it's just a fucking microswitch. pull out the soldering iron and fix it.
[10:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:37] <exec> 08└─Oh really, and when was the last time you needed to clean your mouseball? Never, that's when, because optical mice don't have any mouseballs. The microswitch is an unnecessary component of a touch mouse. If it were designed properly, it wouldn't have a microswitch that needed fixing.
[10:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:48] <exec> 08└─muffs have yeast infections?
[10:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About time, why not sooner - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:54] <exec> 08└─Open office floor plans and co-working spaces for YEARS and only now we get "quiet mice". Why didn't the market meet this need before? Because its benefit is not to the buyer but other people; and as some of the comments show there is little regard for one's coworkers.
[10:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Interesting exceptions - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:22] <exec> 08└─The exceptions that state when an ISP can interfere with traffic - these are interesting. Quick summary: (a) To comply with EU or national legislation. So a government may require an ISP to censor. This includes not only legislation but also court orders and "public authorities vested with relevant...
[10:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting exceptions - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting, since ads seem to have become the primary source of malicious software, they could argue that blocking ads meets condition b) ? (I seriously wish I could figure out why adblock plus does not work on my phone, I've stumbled across one of those "you've been infected, click here to start s...
[10:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:38] <exec> 08└─Honestly I don't care about what career prospects my degree will get me. I'm here to learn, piece of paper or no.
[10:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bug1 [5243] 02AP should focus on their own failings - 06Wikileaks Screening - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:57] <exec> 08└─Journalism has been failing for 20 years, maybe you should investigate that AP. A group comes about that actually tries to hold governments to account, rather than be their best friend, and these "Journalists" are complaining about it. Cant see the forest for the trees. Maybe AP should investigate w...
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[11:02:08] <exec> 08└─Yes!
[11:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''basic income'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:10] <exec> 08└─I was reading another article on that the other day. (We don't mention the Alaska Permanent Fund nearly enough here.) Besides security guard, cop, or bouncer mentioned by takyon, folks should scour their heritage and see if there's some First Nation genes in there (casinos). Overwhelming Evidence th...
[11:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''basic income'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:12] <exec> 08└─First African Nations, represent! Gimme mah reparations, white boy!
[11:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sendafiolorkar [6300] (Score:1) 02from ze Germans - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:14] <exec> 08└─Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch! Oops, wrong business model. Maybe this one will do... Arbeit macht frei
[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02You drive 16 fares... - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:16] <exec> 08└─You drive sixteen fares, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
[11:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:Frist You, I Got Mine! - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:26] <exec> 08└─¿Qué? [wikipedia.org]
[11:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Semi-OT: "Prosperity" - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:36] <exec> 08└─A large number of suckers/speculators means higher profits for the owners of the stock market, that's for sure. Could you discover a constellation [xkcd.com] in the scatterplot?
[11:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:39] <exec> 08└─Historically, the answer to this is mass murder - obvious examples being Haiti and the French Revolution, but the tradition started far earlier, and is still going on (Da Esh, Boko Haram, etc) A large part of the American Body Politic has been taught "there is a natural balance between rich and poor...
[11:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's not just Wall Street at this point - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:41] <exec> 08└─Even if you brought the jobs back from _________, they will soon get automated. The first self-driving cars are hitting the roads in Pennsylvania. A whole change to society is needed.
[11:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:56] <exec> 08└─A bit like this? Speedlink CUE Multitouch [speedlink.com]. It has a touchpad on top, not a screen. And it doesn't really work well, though not bad either.
[11:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:How about re-making one of your cult products? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:05] <exec> 08└─The quality has gone down as well. The wireless ones have a 3 year warranty, but unfortunately you need it. They die every 6 months. They are repairable as well though (generally switch failure) and occasionally they will let you keep the dead one. I'm going to try one of their Japanese competitors...
[11:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02About time - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:16] <exec> 08└─Why the F did it take so long for someone to come up with the idea?!
[11:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Rife with problems - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:52] <exec> 08└─Psystar's primary mistake back in the day was actually buying copies of OS X from Apple and installing it on the machines they were selling.
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[11:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Pet owners everywhere: "No duhhh!" - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:33] <exec> 08└─My dog would go berserk if you asked him "Where's the Fox?". Once we had some Bulgarian visitors over and I asked them how it translated into Bulgarian. Armed with my new words I tried them on the dog, using the same tone of voice. Again the doggo went berserk. I'm quite positive that my dog did not...
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[12:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That is what? 500 seconds worth of use? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:06] <exec> 08└─server system has both DRAM and XPoint/ReRAM whereas an NRAM-using system might just use NRAM, once pricing facilitates this.
[12:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Union business model - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:22] <exec> 08└─Is this the brilliant new business model for union shop states? In this case, form 'Ride share drivers union' that happens to be wholly owned by Uber. Make membership mandatory. Run all HR type things like grievances and pay through the union. It's already a union shop so a 'real' union can't come i...
[12:02:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:40] <exec> 08└─The key insight, as always: If you subsidize something, you get more of it; if you penalize something, you get less of it. - Corporate cronyism is currently subsidized by revolving doors and outright political corruption. Election finances are only a small part of this. There are a lot of pieces to...
[12:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Too Big to Fail - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:43] <exec> 08└─Too Big to Fail equals Too Big to Exist But let's remember it is government that gives these corporations permission to form (and dodge liabilities) in the first place. Don't go thinking government is your friend in fighting BigCorp.com. Every time you hear a politician saying "public-private partne...
[12:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:12] <exec> 08└─Noise cancelling headphones?
[12:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:14] <exec> 08└─This. The only solution for office noise. Won't help me. The office hyena is very close, very loud, loves to laugh her head off all day in a full on PC office where happiness is enforced by policy. Sigh. Code? Here? Sure. After 5pm or so when she leaves.
[12:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Disagree) 02OMG - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:23] <exec> 08└─Just what kind of coddled upbringing did these folks have as children? Were they raised by helicopter parents who reared them in a sound isolation room so that they didn't have to hear anything their helicopter parents didn't deem worthy of their intellect? Myself, growing up, my younger brother and...
[12:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02https? - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:52] <exec> 08└─It appears to me that the article is only relevant to http-traffic which should become less and less relevant in the future. I do surf with adblock only, so cannot judge but are ads still served via http?
[12:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:15] <exec> 08└─Capitalism also has as one of its features a need for the proletariat to believe that by hard work and self-sacrifice they or at least their descendants can become capitalists rather than workers. This is why the news will occasionally highlight stories along the lines of "laundromat worker retires...
[12:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02[...] time for martial law! - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:30] <exec> 08└─[...] The US Marshals should step in and keep ITT open by force if necessary. There's a shortage! We need all the code monkeys and "IT workers" (whatever they are) we can get. How can the government close a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE at a time like this? We should declare a state of emergency and keep this...
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[13:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:01] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the heroin/opioid epidemic continues with "unprecedented" events like the recent 174 heroin overdoses in just six days in Cincinnati, Ohio.
[13:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Union business model - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:24] <exec> 08└─You need to add "with the internet" to a few sentences and then I believe the forms are over here: https://www.uspto.gov [uspto.gov]
[13:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:45] <exec> 08└─Banking services by the post office is the right thing to do. You only think it's dumb because you've never been denied a bank account. Put yourself in the shoes of a poor person. The banks can reject whoever they want and separating banking and investment houses wont fix that.
[13:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:46] <exec> 08└─Eh, kinda. You also have the idea of perverse incentives and with increased complexity, it gets harder to dial in without detrimentally affecting something else. The tax code is a pretty good example of this. The libertarians have the insight of reducing government power to minimize the affects of c...
[13:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02The 'S' Word - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:50] <exec> 08└─That sounds great — just as long as no-one calls it 'socialist'. Of course, it is: very much so. And in some places you can even use that word in public, without being arrested! But the moment you apply that word in the US, 90% of citizens will have an immediate, instinctive reaction against i...
[13:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:06] <exec> 08└─three ballless mice, three ballless mice see how they cursor, see how they cursor, they all ran after the nerd's wife, who cut off their USB tails with a carving knife, did you ever see such a sight in your life as three ballless mice
[13:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02don't want upstream ad-blocking - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:59] <exec> 08└─I don't even want upstream ad-blocking. I'd rather have more control over the what and when. I assume upstream ad blocking would mean using the ISP's site or some Windows/iPhone-only app of theirs to manage the settings, which would probably be more tedious for my use case than the sort of spot exce...
[13:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:15] <exec> 08└─Yea, because that other guy was totally going to stop outsourcing, put the corporations in their place and support the little guy. What was his party again, oh yea Republican, sounds like their M.O.
[13:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:07] <exec> 08└─10.6.8 hasn't had security updates for ages and has known, remotely exploitable, vulnerabilities. I hope that machine isn't connected to a network...
[13:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:35] <exec> 08└─You mean like having all this attention elevating the leadership into megalomaniac attention seekers whose main concern is the carefully selected release of information to maximize attention and highlight the story he wants to tell? Nah, it would never happen. Information wants to be free, after all...
[13:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AP should focus on their own failings - 06Wikileaks Screening - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe AP should investigate why criticism of wikileaks is increasing as the US elections get closer, there might be an actual story there.
[13:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:33] <exec> 08└─I disagree. First, it is just polite. Be a professional, and offer to close out projects, and give them time to react.
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[14:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:03] <exec> 08└─True. Has there been any proof of harm so far though? This seems like the same frap that happened with Cannabis.
[14:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:04] <exec> 08└─I'd never heard of kratom until a few weeks ago. I have no idea how dangerous, useful, or both it may be. Whatever it is, I'm sure it is nowhere near the league of truly dangerous substances like weaponized anthrax spores, radioactive and toxic elements such as plutonium and polonium, and unstable a...
[14:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Big Pharma will not stand for competition - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:06] <exec> 08└─And like most big businesses, Big Pharma has a government agency to protect their cartel against any potential cheaper alternatives. Of course this probably isn't just Big Pharma. The tobacco (and alcohol, to a lesser extent) industry won't tolerate anything that might be used recreationally, and bi...
[14:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That is what? 500 seconds worth of use? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:15] <exec> 08└─It takes 10,000-20000 ns to write 1 cell. But your idea is sound. But to give you an idea most current SSDs have a cell rewrite in about 1000 to 30000 depending on feature size and usage case.
[14:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice for data centers - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:17] <exec> 08└─I don't exepct this coming to PC anytime soon. The target market for this, surely, is datacenters. After the market stabilizes, one comes victorious. Just then we could be hoping to get a desktop board with support for this.
[14:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Re:Something missing - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:09] <exec> 08└─Could be interesting but the reviews discourage me of using it!
[14:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:How about re-making one of your cult products? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:26] <exec> 08└─They stopped making the Trackman Wheel?! I have one of those on my desk that I use it for gaming (much to the bewilderment of my friends). ...man, that's really gonna suck when my bearings wear out.
[14:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gift ideas - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:33] <exec> 08└─I bet your coworkers love you.
[14:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My musings on the subject - 06Wikileaks Screening - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:59] <exec> 08└─3) Given the choice of current situation or deciding to withhold any data until perfectly sanitized I think the current situation is far better
[14:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheerleaders - question - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:26] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk will choose Democracy for Mars in order to foster both a Population Boom and a Golden Age.
[14:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:2) 02Re:Policies, notice - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:43] <exec> 08└─If it's the company I'm thinking of, their contempt for their employees is only slightly less than their contempt for their customers. They know people hate it and don't care. There's always someone that wants the money badly enough and they know it and they'll abuse that person until they leave or...
[14:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me take the employer's side... - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:41] <exec> 08└─So if they are relying on their staff so much to be able to run things smoothly (or as smooth as can be) then they should treat them a little better shouldn't they? Seems obvious to me, but then I don't have an MBA.
[14:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pet owners everywhere: "No duhhh!" - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:14] <exec> 08└─A lot of commentators here miss the context you provide. The report is about separating out the words from both the tone and context, which they claim to have done. Dogs clearly react to facial expressions, tone, and context (if I pick up his leash and stand by the door, my dog gets very excited abo...
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[15:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02BREAKING NEWS! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─News so hot we didn't have time to put punctuation on the end of the sentence!
[15:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:BREAKING NEWS! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:11] <exec> 08└─It's a fair cop...
[15:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obvious Cause - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:13] <exec> 08└─This was sabotage. I'd slide my tinfoil hat on, but I have it stapled in place.
[15:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Oh No! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─I hope no one was hurt!
[15:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Capitalism in Action! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:17] <exec> 08└─Witness the boom, bust cycle of private space exploration. Currently very much in the boom stage.
[15:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:27] <exec> 08└─St. John's Wort While nowhere near as effective as say, kanna, St. John's Wort really does work for depression. If we are to be honest, Kratom may or may not be effective against opiate addiction. One thing is for sure though it certainly is competition to the drug cartel, who specialise in both leg...
[15:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:29] <exec> 08└─Do you have a reference? In the case of depression, the study should be double-blind and randomized with a placebo control or it will not be convincing.
[15:02:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:31] <exec> 08└─I'd never heard of kratom until a few weeks ago. I have no idea how dangerous, useful, or both it may be. Whatever it is, I'm sure it is nowhere near the league of truly dangerous substances like weaponized anthrax spores, radioactive and toxic elements such as plutonium and polonium, and unstable a...
[15:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:33] <exec> 08└─I've heard it can alleviate symptoms of social anxiety and moderate depression. I haven't heard of it having effects anything like salvia, cannabis, shrooms, that Jimsonweed (avoid this one), nutmeg etc. Meant to try it but never got around to it. Too late now I guess! The DEA needs to be eliminated...
[15:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02micro cs milli - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:44] <exec> 08└─Please use the correct abbreviation for microsecond, or spell microsecond out in full, or make it clear what you mean by explaining that 10 ms is 10,000,000 ns, in case that's what you mean.
[15:03:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02"communities of color"? - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 736 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:11] <exec> 08└─WTF? I think the problem being described by "perennially witty guy Jim Hightower" is central banking; as Wilson put it after signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our sy...
[15:03:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:21] <exec> 08└─Historically, the answer to this is mass murder - obvious examples being Haiti and the French Revolution, but the tradition started far earlier, and is still going on (Da Esh, Boko Haram, etc) A large part of the American Body Politic has been taught "there is a natural balance between rich and poor...
[15:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:24] <exec> 08└─The only reason I've ever heard of for someone being denied a bank account is that they overdrew a bank account and never paid back the money. Sure, it sucks to be in that position where you can't open a bank account because you owe some bank a few hundred dollars you don't have, but it's a situatio...
[15:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:30] <exec> 08└─Getting the corrupting cash of corporations and the superrich out of our politics by repealing Citizens United and providing a public system for financing America's elections.
[15:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why you think that a Supreme Court decision can't be reversed, there are plenty of examples [wikipedia.org]. Now, free speech. You have to realize that corporations are legal fictions (I know, I'm a lawyer) and should not be understood as having the same rights as a natural person. For...
[15:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Something missing - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:44] <exec> 08└─https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegestures/ [mozilla.org]
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the Coders - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:26] <exec> 08└─Even free software costs the price of the medium it's on. Maybe you can get a USB stick for less than none dollars and copy a friend's Linux?
[15:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:32] <exec> 08└─I also received a kickstarter pocketchip, pretty early in the process from what I've read on reddit. The keyboard can be pretty tough. There's a project that posted 3d printable models for a snap on keyboard case/cover. When printed out of PLA it's supposed to be pretty great, although you lose the...
[15:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Fun, but needs some hacking - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:35] <exec> 08└─I very much like my pocketchip but was somewhat disappointed by the software that it shipped with. I understand they felt that they underestimated the draw of the pocketchip and subsequently the market it would go to so instead of shipping with a fully functional desktop UI/WM, they came up with a m...
[15:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:47] <exec> 08└─Please be on the lookout for an ad that says "By Felicia". The rest of us won't see it due to our real ad blockers (and not our faux outrage ad blockers that, ironically, don't block faux outrage).
[15:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't want upstream ad-blocking - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:53] <exec> 08└─I assume upstream ad blocking would mean using the ISP's site or some Windows/iPhone-only app of theirs to manage the settings
[15:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:just need the paper - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:22] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work that way. You can't just say "i'm not going to get a degree and that will force employers to drop the degree requirement". It has to be the people with degrees who become the hiring authority and then remove that requirement. But they don't.
[15:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:just need the paper - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:25] <exec> 08└─The heck? He said it was *a* requirement, not the only one.
[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfttt! - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing, actual BSD or Linux wouldn't be illegal to install...
[15:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:My musings on the subject - 06Wikileaks Screening - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─Their "curated" version is often just propaganda. But the raw information is pretty good.
[15:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:If only your dog could talk! - 06Your Dog Understands More Than You Think - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:45] <exec> 08└─"My dog LOVES me". No it doesn't, you feed it.
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[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious Cause - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:20] <exec> 08└─One does wonder. Upset establishment aerospace probs a dangerous proposition
[16:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh No! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:23] <exec> 08└─No one was, thankfully. NASA protocol had no one in the area when the static firing test was to be performed.
[16:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism in Action! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:26] <exec> 08└─we need a "-1 horrible pun" mod. :P
[16:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism in Action! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:28] <exec> 08└─I like you. I too, like making jokes about tragedy. It's not because I don't care, it's because it makes me and others feel a little better. :^)
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:30] <exec> 08└─"SpaceX was getting the Falcon 9 ready to launch the Amos 6 satellite, a communications probe for the Israeli satellite operator Spacecom. The satellite was meant to provide internet to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa as part of Facebook's Internet.org initiative, and the social media company partnered...
[16:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:32] <exec> 08└─I'm kind of glad that failed. I didn't realize they were going ahead with that. India put a stop to Facebook's locked down little plan.
[16:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02NPR - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─SpaceX says "an anomaly on the pad" caused the explosion.
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:NPR - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─Probably a pelican, or two.
[16:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:47] <exec> 08└─proof of harm is only relevant for classification as schedule 1, not for legality. Any recommendations for use for medical purposes is illegal without approval by the FDA.
[16:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about any claimed medical uses. I don't think that's the DEA's area anyway, it's the FDA. Basically, the DEA is making this drug illegal because ... they feel like it? Has there actually been any harm proven?
[16:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:54] <exec> 08└─Please learn to use the internet. Multiple references are a single search away. And for anything, you really need to review multiple references as you can always find a reference to support the opinion you want. Find some references for the claim and some against the claim, then read them and come t...
[16:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:58] <exec> 08└─I can completely understand not wanting people making unproven medical claims, but that aside, if there's no proven harm, how the hell can they do this?
[16:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:That is what? 500 seconds worth of use? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:08] <exec> 08└─One cycle is a rewrite cycle. If it takes 1µs to toggle a bit, then you'd need 16.5 weeks of constantly toggling the same bit to wear it out. Even stack memory (which would be totally insane to put in NVRAM) isn't written at the full interface bandwidth though. At maximum performance, DDR4 (curren...
[16:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:micro cs milli - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:12] <exec> 08└─In case your keyboard settings don't allow you to enter the µ directly, you can just copy it from this post. Or use the HTML entity μ of course.
[16:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:14] <exec> 08└─So, the FBI is kicking my door down, and I reboot the computer. They don't care, because system state comes right back up, like laptop sleep? Time to start rethinking a few things about computer usage. Security takes on a whole different aspect.
[16:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02c50ns? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:16] <exec> 08└─A quick comparison has NRAM at c50ns
[16:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''basic income'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think the Robots will visit casinos in droves, since Robots will be the only ones with jobs.
[16:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Company Towns gone virtual - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:31] <exec> 08└─"gives you a chance to become a drug dealing prostitute cop" You've been watching Heavy Metal the Movie again, haven't you? https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[16:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey, this will fix it! - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:37] <exec> 08└─So, we boost the pay of all Uber drivers, and redefine them as employees. Rather than just go broke, Uber fires them, puts its pot of money into self-driving cars. Uber's owners and executives do just fine because they're actually getting more money for less outlay and grief. The former drivers are...
[16:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:53] <exec> 08└─Kyuubey
[16:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:55] <exec> 08└─You should really learn to troll better. We have a pretty high standard for trolling around here and you're not even getting close to meeting it. Our trolls are usually proficient with both wit and humor and are quite competent at making people actually feel what they want them to feel. You fail on...
[16:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hooked - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:57] <exec> 08└─And yet he provoked an entirely in-character, smugly superior, egotistic response from you. So looks like he hooked the exact fish he was trolling for. He even named you as first on the list of trophies and you took the bait anyway.
[16:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:06] <exec> 08└─Banks also did that to themselves. If you ask for an account that can't go below zero they will just give you an odd stare like you are a pod person. A lot of (poor) people moved to pre-paid like cards for just that reason. There are no hidden fees or ways to end up owing money to the bank for a mis...
[16:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:08] <exec> 08└─If you overdraw an account, and the bank closes it, you're at their mercy if you pay it back. Often they don't remove you from Chexsystems. Found that out the hard way with somebody I knew. Once a bank closes an overdrawn account (usually after adding a couple hundred dollars of fees, to boot), ther...
[16:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:12] <exec> 08└─Impose a transaction fee that is inversely proportional to how long you hold a position: 1 second or less = 100% of the transaction value, 1 day = 50% of the transaction value, 1 year = 1%, 10 years = 0%.
[16:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:14] <exec> 08└─> No, creating a nationalized bank is as dumb as it gets. Just like TSA for airport security That's a false equivalency. You are forced to endure the TSA. A nationalized bank would provide a floor for minimum quality service. The two are entirely different things. Just like the Post Office provides...
[16:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Big to Fail - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─Every time you hear a politician saying "public-private partnership" you should mentally translate it to the sound of the handcuffs clicking one notch tighter.
[16:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Big to Fail - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:20] <exec> 08└─To me, too big to fail means monopoly position: if it is soooo big that they can't let it fail, maybe the rules that have allowed this to happen need to be changed. Example: when i was a kid, there were allllllll kinds of little mom and pop stores. Now there are few, because the BIG guys have had th...
[16:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:The 'S' Word - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─I think it was true once, but not any more. Many people in the US are quite fond of socialism. On contender for the nomination of a major party called himself a "Democratic Socialist" and he came very close to winning the nomination (in fact, probably would have, if not for the corrupt elements in t...
[16:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:27] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand the issues, the campaign finance laws, and the interpretations of contributions, contributions-in-kind, and advocacy as defined by the FEC, as well as the categories of committees, disconnected committees, PACs, and "Super PACs". Corporations cannot contribute to campaigns. The Cit...
[16:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Something missing - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:40] <exec> 08└─I use gestures for back - a relic of using Opera until they switched to Blink. But I do use the back button extensively. I use X-Mouse and bind back to pg-dn, and forward to pg-up. This was at first to overcome a new laptop that has these keys as a function key, but now that I have it in my workflow...
[16:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:53] <exec> 08└─Redefines bit banging [wikipedia.org] a little. Impressive timing ability, for sure!
[16:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Model M .. how did they know? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:09] <exec> 08└─It's worth at least $50, probably more like $80 to $100. I got lucky when I found mine -- I was browsing a used junk store and they had a pile of keyboards marked $5 each. I felt like I won the lottery that day. It was like finding finding a piece of fine art underneath a poster of dogs smoking ciga...
[16:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:32] <exec> 08└─Those problems are more likely a result of differences between your printer and the designer's depending on what you mean by "skewed". If the holes are angled vertically, then your printer is printing layers that don't line up. If the holes don't align with the keys, it just means there is a subtle...
[16:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:34] <exec> 08└─I tried using the keyboard -- it works in a pinch, to actually write anything I had to connect a regular keyboard. The screen is fine but as in all things, my early GenX eyes require reading glasses.
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:21] <exec> 08└─A Capitalist is someone who makes money from money.
[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:calling out policies is burning bridges - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:53] <exec> 08└─OP said, "Is it worthwhile to state in my resignation email that these policies were major motivating factors in departing as soon as possible?" Then you said, "To me burning a bridge is leaving without notice and/or telling people off when you do leave." Calling out a big list of policies in an exi...
[16:09:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Let me take the employer's side... - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 2516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─To counter your counterpoint, as someone who has worked as a manager, and also worked with call center management and staff writing software for them: As the boss, it's your responsibility to have a pretty good idea of who on your staff is reliable and who isn't. So when you're scheduling people, yo...
[16:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:treat the symptoms? - 06World Health Organization: Gonorrhea Becoming Untreatable - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:22] <exec> 08└─Add to that, a cure for AIDS would be a huge PR win, in an industry where most players spend as much on marketing as they do on R&D. It's hard to buy PR like being able to put in every advert: 'Buy drug X, from the people that eradicated AIDS'.
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[17:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Translation - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─Translation: "When we realized that remaining closed source wouldn't work, we understood that we needed people to do work for free for us. Make no mistake, as soon as we find a way and got what we wanted out of this move, we will close this thing off again because we didn't really want to be open so...
[17:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:08] <exec> 08└─Similar maneuver to what that idiotic piece of shit bre pettis, former CEO of Makerbot pulled. Build your company on the backs of the open source community and stab them all in the back for a quick buck. Stay the fuck away from these bottom feeders. No, that's not fair to bottom feeders. They are th...
[17:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Marketing Acronyms - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:10] <exec> 08└─LWN (formerly Linux Weekly News)
[17:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marketing Acronyms - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because LWN IS well established for Linux (as in Linux Kernel) news but the name has since been misleading as LWN also covers other news than Linux (as in ecosystem) and it covers it more than weekly. As the acronym was already well established for their core audience I guess it was a simple...
[17:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Interesting) 02history of earth on a sidewalk - 063.7 Billion-Year-Old Fossil Found - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:20] <exec> 08└─I thought it would be cool to have the History of the Earth placed on a sidewalk that school kids use. I worked out a list of events to put down. The most recent 500 million years were of course the best known, with the most information, and that's the section I thought best to put closest to the sc...
[17:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism in Action! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:36] <exec> 08└─They're like a big bright flash of light when dealing with a shocking event.
[17:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NPR - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:42] <exec> 08└─So Bevis and Butthead are responsible then. NASA must have hired Anderson.
[17:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:54] <exec> 08└─Yes and it was the FDA that sent out a bulletin that it wasn't approved for use in the US and should be impounded when found. The DEA was founded several years after the act that created this scheduling was. Also, the burden of proof here is on people that are trying to sell this stuff to demonstrat...
[17:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Union business model - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:35] <exec> 08└─It's already a union shop so a 'real' union can't come in. And the best part: Charge the drivers to be managed through union dues. Fund the lobbyists working against them via the union too. Brilliant! Hmm, how do I get a business method patent on that?
[17:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:55] <exec> 08└─Never mind. Used the search to answer my question. cubancigar11 is the winner.
[17:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:56] <exec> 08└─Yyyyup. Like the "real" Kyuubey, he thinks he's incredibly edgy for being all "hurr hurr emotions are for the weak I am a being of pure logic wololol I trol u," he's arrogant, he's soulless...aaaaand made the mistake of crossing the wrong dyke one too many times :D Jeez, I even *look* a bit like a l...
[17:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooked - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:01] <exec> 08└─I'm a woman, but yes, you nailed it otherwise :) Actually, I wasn't trolling, or not intentionally, but it occurred to me a little while later that "the usual suspects" probably WOULD see that as bait and bite the line. I wasn't disapp--well, I *am* disappointed, but in them, not in the response :D
[17:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:13] <exec> 08└─I'll grant your point that some services are most appropriate for a government to assume. Transportation infrastructure (i.e., roads) comes to mind. On the other hand, many markets are only lousy due to government regulation giving someone a monopoly position. Just as an example: You write "We are a...
[17:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Big to Fail - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:19] <exec> 08└─Ironically, Ford was the one (and only one iirc) who wasn't too big to fail. Around 2007/2008, I was saying "let it all just fucking fail." I still think this is the only correct option. Sure, it would have been hard on many people. My hope is that two major changes would happen: - People would real...
[17:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Big to Fail - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:21] <exec> 08└─I'd venture that "too big to fail" should automatically equal to "nationalized", followed by either "public" or "broken apart". You should never get to privatize any profits, if the taxpayers have to barge in to save you from losses.
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:28] <exec> 08└─So this whole thing starts by proclaiming they want a Constitutional Amendment to repeal Free Speech in the US.
[17:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:49] <exec> 08└─Actually.. With ball-mice I cleaned them once a year (as with my keyboards) but with optical I need to de-hair the slit near the led/receptor pair roughly every second month. I can only imagine what it must be like for people with cats
[17:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Logitech's competition? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:01] <exec> 08└─Which Japanese competitors? I love me a good, corded optical mouse with several extra buttons. Razer is/was garbage worse than current Logitech, in my experience.
[17:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:OMG - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:19] <exec> 08└─Oh gods, you're one of those Open Floor Plan cultists. You never see that half the office is wearing headphones to be a visual "do not disturb" flag. Or the abuse of caffeine and Adderall just to focus because "no walls means total transparency, man". You may be one of those people who can sit in a...
[17:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:38] <exec> 08└─It seemed like on one side of the keyboard the holes are perfectly vertical, but as the print progressed the became more and more angled. It's possible that it was caused by the issues you described, but like I said I'm also a bit of an amateur. I've on pretty old firmware for my device and relative...
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:response - 06Wikileaks Screening - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─Are we supposed to believe that posting the names of the people arrested by the government means that the government now knows who to put in prison?  No, it means his neighbors now know who to lynch.
[17:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:42] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks doesn't give a fuck about anyone, or anything, other than making hard to come by information readily available....  If by readily, you mean withholding information until such a time as they see fit to release it.   Their goal is transparency at all costs  So, where's the rest of...
[17:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:PR nightmare in the wings - 06SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:13] <exec> 08└─Low mileage, older owner, hangar-kept, pet-free and teen-free.
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[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─Yup, no one threw money to buy them, now they're hoping to capitalize on volunteer labor. At least there is the "fork it" option now...
[18:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02no trust - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:18] <exec> 08└─Most of the code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:history of earth on a sidewalk - 063.7 Billion-Year-Old Fossil Found - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:27] <exec> 08└─You're using metric, so you must not be thinking about so many US kids having to use microscopes to study a 2mm sliver of concrete to figure out how many dinosaurs can dance on the head of a pin to win being ridden by Jesus today.
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious Cause - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:38] <exec> 08└─It was Russian hackers. Already confirmed by the Democrats, Republicans, FBI, NSA, CMT, CNN, and NBC. The Russians deny it; that's how you know they did it. Support your congressperson on their next bill to put reasonable limits on free speech, gun control, encryption, and dubstep to prevent this fr...
[18:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:48] <exec> 08└─I agree--if no one was hurt, then I consider this to be a plus for humanity and a minus for the global panopticon.
[18:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:NPR - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:53] <exec> 08└─Curious if insurance will payout since the payload was destroyed on the pad prior to launch. The BBC clip was actually pretty good, imo. Though they didn't say what the anomaly was : /
[18:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:08] <exec> 08└─Please learn to use the internet. Multiple references are a single search away.
[18:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps do some reading about what the US was like prior to establishing rules about medical claims. These are substances that have unknown qualities that shouldn't be permitted to gain a foothold without research backing their safety. Just look at alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. Those were permitte...
[18:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:14] <exec> 08└─Same way they do everything else it seems: Because. They. Can. Doing some reading, the DEA seems to have linked deaths to the use of this one. As always, they'll give us the raw numbers to sound scary (deaths! [3 of them] hundreds needing medical care! [over a 5 year period]) but that's not epidemio...
[18:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Informative) 02what it is - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:18] <exec> 08└─Mitragyna speciosa, also known as ketum or kratom,[2] is a tropical deciduous and evergreen tree in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Southeast Asia in the Indochina and Malaysia phytochoria (botanical regions). M. speciosa is indigenous to Thailand where it has been used in traditional medici...
[18:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:micro cs milli - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:31] <exec> 08└─You need to be telling this to editors of The Register because that's where that excerpt comes from.
[18:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:33] <exec> 08└─You could just, you know, not browse the skinhead and bestiality sites in the first place...
[18:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:c50ns? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:36] <exec> 08└─What is this "c" in "c50ns" supposed to stand for?
[18:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get the popcorn ready.... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─Sailor Moon meets The Damnation of Faustus and does an entire sheet of brown blotter acid.
[18:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Semi-OT: "Prosperity" - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, I would say that's very much the crux of the topic. All that concern for the Dow in the news and in our government is exactly the system being rigged to provide prosperity for the very few while not giving a damn about the vast majority. You're looking right at the smoking gun.
[18:04:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:32] <exec> 08└─Banks also did that to themselves. If you ask for an account that can't go below zero they will just give you an odd stare like you are a pod person. A lot of (poor) people moved to pre-paid like cards for just that reason. There are no hidden fees or ways to end up owing money to the bank for a mis...
[18:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02'' "Robin hood" tax is a stupid name'' - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:39] <exec> 08└─You didn't say why specifically. Yeah, the old proving-a-negative thing can be tough. The reason it's an apt name is because the mythical character (who may not have even existed or might be a composite of several people) was said to take from the rich and give to the poor. During the Great Depressi...
[18:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:51] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS gets things wrong from time to time, Citizen's United is one recent example. Their decisions are neither perfect nor permanent. Money isn't speech. Our current laws and precedents say it is. Our current laws are wrong.
[18:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02economy on FIRE - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:53] <exec> 08└─Here is a good (and long) article about our current troubles with asset bubbles, rent seeking, and debt deflation. http://www.washingtonsblog.com [washingtonsblog.com]
[18:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Three Viewpoints - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:55] <exec> 08└─The viewpoints on this can generally be classified as such: 1. Redistribution (socialism) is okay if there's too much inequality 2. Trickle down works if it's done right, and current admin/gov't is doing it wrong 3. Social Darwinism is a good thing, let the poor suffer and die If a conservative or l...
[18:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:19] <exec> 08└─> I need to de-hair the slit near the led/receptor pair roughly every second month. The jokes write themselves...
[18:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:20] <exec> 08└─Draft one did not say "ball-mice"... ;)
[18:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:23] <exec> 08└─How would you rest your finger on it without constantly clicking? Just hover the finger in mid-air all the time? Sounds like you'd end up with gorilla finger...
[18:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Model M Mouse - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:27] <exec> 08└─You weren't in LAX a couple of days ago, where you?
[18:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:33] <exec> 08└─Color you "triggered," eh?
[18:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:35] <exec> 08└─Huh? No, I was trying to see if I could post the kind of thing Eth does, but about Eth. And you have to admit it's a hilarious mental image :D
[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OMG - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─open floor plans are the worst. as a consultant I charge extra to endure that. As an employee, I'd try to find a new job if I could. A cubical farm is far better; even the illusion of privacy -- even if the cubes themselves are temporary roll aways that are not assignable to anyone -- having that "w...
[18:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─For Science!
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds are FUCKING IDIOTS - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:36] <exec> 08└─A possibly interesting point lost in the noise of douchiness. Alas...
[18:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:00] <exec> 08└─Since you "already have a 30 year old engineering degree", I can understand why taking classes at a junior college wouldn't help you get a job. I expect if you really wanted one you would have it, or perhaps you already do . (You didn't say.) Or perhaps you're retired. (I retired about 25 years afte...
[18:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:no jobs for college graduates - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─I think it's more like you are overqualified for the stocking job, but you lose out to people with actual University degrees for the degree required jobs.   A college degree does one thing, you see. It brands you a loser.  Brand me whatever you want, I'll take the extra $20k per year, [censu...
[18:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:12] <exec> 08└─It's not so much that words have multiple definitions, though they do, as that technical terms (economics is a form of technical) lose precision when they move into common usage. You are right, the better term for someone who makes money from money is financier, but such a person is ALSO a capitalis...
[18:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A lot of folks don't grok what Capitalism is - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─I'll bet that you think "Middle Class" is also a useful term. It isn't. It's something Lamestream Media made up. Ask a group to each mark his own graph delineating the "Middle Class" and each will put the marks in different places. "Middle Class" is just a divide-and-conquer mechanism meant to manip...
[18:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not sure I see the point of this - 06$329 HacBook Can Run OS X--or Linux or Windows - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:08] <exec> 08└─I love mac. I have a 1,1 MacPro still in daily use and running ElCap, a 2012 i7 mini (runs esxi most of the time), and a new (this week) hackintosh desktop for Davinci Resolve. The only place I can see someone wanting to go to all the trouble of hackintosh is to fill the huge gap in the mac line: a...
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[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Open/Libra Office - 06Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if any of this money will go to bug fixes in the Open Office code? Plenty of little incompatibilities with MS Office that keeps them from a larger share.
[19:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Open/Libra Office - 06Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:12] <exec> 08└─Hey gew... OriginalOwner. Got a list of the 31 funded projects?
[19:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old Announcement? - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:26] <exec> 08└─The date in the link to the Maru blog post is Feb 11th. Maybe they should work on a faster internet connection for Maru so their news can spread faster.
[19:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:history of earth on a sidewalk - 063.7 Billion-Year-Old Fossil Found - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's long past time for the US to finish switching to metric. It's messed up to have food ingredients in grams and mg, while serving sizes are in English units. 44g of sugar per 16 fluid ounces, yeah! Yes, I was also thinking that putting science on sidewalks would bother the Creationists. W...
[19:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:BREAKING NEWS! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:46] <exec> 08└─The news is so hot the Musky troll didn't have time to get first post.
[19:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:59] <exec> 08└─Nasa said SpaceX was test-firing a rocket which was due to take a satellite into space this weekend. It said the rocket's payload, a communications satellite for Facebook due to launch on Saturday, was also destroyed. Experts said the Amos-6 satellite was valued at more than $200m (£150m).
[19:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:NPR - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:05] <exec> 08└─A newt!
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:2, Informative) 02Video - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:07] <exec> 08└─The RUD is at about 1:11. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Looks like a refueling accident to me.
[19:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:19] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the only deaths linked to kratom involved other substances.
[19:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02sigs - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:31] <exec> 08└─The White House petition was over 24k when I submitted the story. Now it's at 31,674.
[19:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:48] <exec> 08└─Legal adults have a right to read or view any legal material that they want. Anyone else opinion of it is irrelevant. Unless the government has a warrant, they have no right to rummage through your physical or digital belongings. The government has demonstrated a complete disregard for personal priv...
[19:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─Not much of a skinhead - if I ever was a white supremacist, then I was disillusioned by some serious Darwin award candidates. Beastiality? A couple girls have called me a beast. But that's all beside the point. Let's say that I were in league with Guccifer and freinds. I'm hacking into the corrupt D...
[19:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Properly run, a union is a democracy - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:12] <exec> 08└─Just as the old saw goes "You get the government that you deserve", union members get the union leadership that they vote for. If your union sucks, DON'T sit on your ass and bitch. CHANGE IT. Volkswagen’s UAW Vote [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org] if only 45 people, out of more th...
[19:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''denied a bank account'' - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:49] <exec> 08└─The only reason I've ever heard of for someone being denied a bank account is that they overdrew a bank account and never paid back the money Your life experience is very limited or your vision is very narrow (a very comfortable "Middle Class" existence?). You don't seem to have ever encountered any...
[19:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:50] <exec> 08└─It would need to go one step further than just not allowing fees on their own checks. Many employers bank with a commercial bank that may not have a physical location anywhere near where the employees live (possibly not even in the same state).
[19:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─Postal banking is not the same as a nationalized bank, Basically it's a way to cash a paycheck without having to pay 5% (or more) to a check casher for people who can't get a bank account. Many national systems also offer savings accounts. No loans or other "financial services". Just cashing checks...
[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not just Wall Street at this point - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:00] <exec> 08└─There are two ways we can do it. We can come together now, realize that what we have is about to collapse in a completely unprecedented way, and begin to transition to a post-scarcity society in an intentional, controlled way by way of a citizen's dividend or a basic income. The basic income doesn't...
[19:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:12] <exec> 08└─There is nothing in the Constitution that says corporations have all the same rights as people. That interpretation was gradually added over time, probably via corporate pressure on the courts.
[19:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, ok. You missed the slurring his ethnicity part though.
[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─You are right, the better term for someone who makes money from money is financier, but such a person is ALSO a capitalist, as capitalist is a more inclusive term than financier.
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:A lot of folks don't grok what Capitalism is - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─I'll bet that you think "Middle Class" is also a useful term.
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[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Me 2! I iz tax 3xxp#r7!! - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─Deh taxxes be tooo damm high! Flat tax at 90% for richie rich richers!! Basic Income!! NOW!1!!!
[20:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Me 2! I iz tax 3xxp#r7!! - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. I also enjoy living as a serf in a system designed to prevent me from being able to compete with the incumbent lords.
[20:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Me 2! I iz tax 3xxp#r7!! - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:13] <exec> 08└─You should start a business. Anyone can do it and make tons of money. Just look at how much Uber [soylentnews.org] is worth. And there's nothing stopping you, because all the big money's in apps these days, and you can code apps in your bedroom on a $9 computer [soylentnews.org]. If you're not rich...
[20:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:16] <exec> 08└─There's always the "we did not break any laws" argument which, whenever it is brought up, shows that there really is nothing else they can appeal to. Whenever you hear "we did not break any laws", the real message is "we are dicks, but we think that we can get away with it, go fuck yourself". It mea...
[20:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:18] <exec> 08└─Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary cont...
[20:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:20] <exec> 08└─You're not getting the point. The point is that in terms of morality, what the courts decide, is meaningless. Court decide on lawfulness, not on morality.
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:22] <exec> 08└─cant ‎(noun) (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─Based on their behaviour on almost every front, I think they should change the way they advertise to "Apple: A douchebag of a company", and their motto to "Because fuck you, that's why".
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─Well, you're still stealing cookies and that makes you a bad company.
[20:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─The EU would argue that those cookies were never rightfully theirs in the first place.
[20:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:31] <exec> 08└─When Enron perpetrated their fraud they were not the only one to fall, Arthur Andersen took their fair share of the blame as well. In this situation Enron is Apple, and Arthur Andersen is Ireland. Seems to be a pretty fitting match. Ireland should have known better than Apple that the tax brake they...
[20:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:3, Insightful) 02lol - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:33] <exec> 08└─Instead of defaulting to what's become accepted behavior among the Fortune 500 to give more to shareholders and less to tax collectors, Apple should be actively working with governments to eliminate havens and loopholes and move toward fair and equitable tax policy.
[20:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Legality vs morality - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:35] <exec> 08└─What Apple was doing may not have been illegal*, but it sure as hell is wrong. * From what I've read it might have been, but the Irish gov looked the other way.
[20:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Payback time, or how devious a letter can be - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:37] <exec> 08└─Payback, in this case, will really be a bitch. For those of you who still think Cook's open letter is simply management goobledegook public relations speak and so on: forget it. This letter is the first shot in the coming war against Jim O'Reary, Norwich Road, Dublin and all his compatriots. Do not...
[20:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02This man knows how to mislead - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:39] <exec> 08└─It's actually quite clever, particularly where he's wrong.   "The European Union, after a lengthy investigation, ruled Tuesday that Apple's use of Irish subsidiary companies to avoid paying taxes amounts to the tech giant receiving "illegal state aid" from Ireland. As a result, Apple may be requ...
[20:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The EU is dying - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:42] <exec> 08└─It is official; Surveys now confirm: The EU is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered EU when Apple CEO Tim Cook described the power grabbing supranational's investigation of its Irish tax affairs as "political bullshit". Coming close on the heels of the EU centralized tax id...
[20:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02eInclusion Muslim Translator - 06Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:51] <exec> 08└─Austrian: "Hello. How are you?" Translator: "Fuck your Mother! Death to the West! Jihad! Jihad! ALLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAH!!!!" Muslim: "VERY WELL MY EXTREMIST BROTHER!!! KILL THE INFIDELS!!!!! ALLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAH!!!!!!" Translator: "I am fine. Thank you for asking."
[20:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:history of earth on a sidewalk - 063.7 Billion-Year-Old Fossil Found - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:14] <exec> 08└─I dunno, your plan here seems to be only to present a narrative. Unless you can go into the evidence, discussion of alternative explanations, etc I don't see how it is any different than pushing creationism.
[20:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Video - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:45] <exec> 08└─In slow motion and/or frame by frame: http://rowvid.com [rowvid.com]
[20:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't this just a frikkin' plant?
[20:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:00] <exec> 08└─Schedule I does a lot more than prevent some overseas people from shipping you some potentially dangerous drugs. It also prevents you from legally growing it in your own home, on your own terms. No tree leaves for you!
[20:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:11] <exec> 08└─Once again, I'm not talking about medical claims. Cannabis never should have been added to schedule one in the first place. These are not 'products', these are plants.
[20:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02The problem is letting the DEA make laws - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:16] <exec> 08└─Drug ENFORCEMENT Agency. Enforcement, not lawmaking. That is the problem right there. The DEA should not be allowed to make laws, to decide what is legal or not legal. They should just be following the laws congress makes. Yet they are making laws and deciding what is legal and not legal. Whi...
[20:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:That is what? 500 seconds worth of use? - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:28] <exec> 08└─All of which misses the point. If it has a write limit it isn't RAM. If you have to do wear leveling and error detection and correction is routine instead of a very rare exception you can't use it as ram. You won't feed a modern CPU's cache if you you have a complex controller between the chips and...
[20:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:micro cs milli - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:33] <exec> 08└─*10^-9 FOREVER!!!11!!!
[20:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:38] <exec> 08└─The government doesn't have any rights whatsoever; it has powers.
[20:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonvolatile memory - 06Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:41] <exec> 08└─I was joking, relax =P But you're entirely right, nonvolatile RAM is a privacy disaster. The shutdown routine needs to do the equivalent of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem
[20:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The trend is in the other direction - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:05] <exec> 08└─Make [union] membership mandatory The trend at the state level (driven largely by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group for its membership of Reactionary businesses) is toward "right to work" laws, which are the opposite. N.B. They like to leave the last part off of that:...
[20:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''union ideology'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:07] <exec> 08└─Unions are not the ultimate solution. They are simply the best we have come up with under a Capitalist system. The reason that unions exist is because of the existence of an oppressor class. If we replace concentrated wealth and power with a system based on worker-owners, egalitarianism, and communi...
[20:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:43] <exec> 08└─It's actually pretty easy to be overdrawn even if you carefully account for every penny and never float a check. All it takes is a surprise fee (as noted in 4 pt. font in the last paragraph of page 45 of the agreement we meant to mail you but never got around to). Another way is if they decide well...
[20:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good ideas, some bad... - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:51] <exec> 08└─So you DO have a natural monopoly situation. Those phone lines didn't install themselves, that happened under the old Bell monopoly. The cable lines probably happened initially under a franchise agreement with a single cable provider (THE cable company for your area). There may still be a de-facto m...
[20:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to watch a movie that was produced entirely out of one individual's personal funds? It's not pretty. It's not good. A corporation is just a way to organize a group of people. Should we ban ALL legal entities from being allowed to produce opinion pieces? Labor Unions? Churches? N...
[20:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:11] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS did not say money is speech. They said a movie is speech. And it is. There are 6 corporations that control 90% of the media in the US. They all have political biases. How do you decide what to censor? Besides, it doesn't matter. It turns out that money for messaging doesn't really do much for...
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─You could read total area acuated, and just indicate that an increase of 10% or so (fingers flatten when you press harder) is a click. Of course that would require timers, and also to create a pattern for "taps".. Or you could use a porous thin non-conductive layer between two thin conductive layers...
[20:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score:2) 02Re:And why do mice still have moving parts???????? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:40] <exec> 08└─Like the Apple magic mouse?
[20:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Situation - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:50] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what ethnicity he is, honestly. I don't care either.
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Logitech's competition? - 06A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─I rather like my Roccat Tyon, though it's very much a fancy blingy thing that screams 'game peripheral'. At least the driver lets you turn off the lights.
[20:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02piffle - 06Network-Wide Ad-Blocking in the EU ? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:50] <exec> 08└─Duly noted -- I'll throw in a triffle and grand total, next time. (at your service, for your eyes only, mi cojones son ti cojones etcetera)
[20:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Re:Sigh - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─Also, what bridges are you going to burn that you care about? Your boss in a company with stupendously bad policies who's tolerated it, put employees into it, through it, and watched them leave? Do you really ever want to work with that person ever again?
[20:10:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Just leave - 06Ask Soylent: Quitting No-Notice over Worker-Hostile Policies? - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:50] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean that you should stoop to their level.
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[21:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Damn it feels good to be a basement dweller! - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares to hack my shit.
[21:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:28] <exec> 08└─I think the EU would argue that they're being asked to pay for the health inspectors for the egg farms and the flour mills, for the roads that the trucks delivering their cookie ingredients traveled, etc. so that Apple can continue to make its cookies.
[21:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:30] <exec> 08└─I think the EU should quit paying for those things, then.
[21:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:32] <exec> 08└─The EU would argue that those cookies were never rightfully theirs in the first place.
[21:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:35] <exec> 08└─that the tax brake they were providing was not allowed They have been doing this since the mid 80s. They knew exactly what they were doing even then. However, at the time the EU did not exist at all. I doubt they were predicative enough to guess what the EU wanted. No one was investing in them at al...
[21:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:37] <exec> 08└─Apple want their company to be based in the EU. Ireland bribed apple to put their HQ in Ireland rather than Luxembourg or Holland or Sweden or wherever. Ireland was not allowed to do that under Irish law. Ireland could have changed the law to allow it to do that, but that would have meant it would h...
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:39] <exec> 08└─Two additions to that. (1) Apple Ireland (actually, two box companies (Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe)without any employees, and without official residence -- the closest you can get to Schrodinger's Cat in real life) is not only responsible for income generated in the EU: al...
[21:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:lol - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:42] <exec> 08└─According to the EU, it was illegal. What Apple did was make it complex so that it was hard to spot the illegality. I guess they didn't make it complex enough.
[21:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:lol - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:45] <exec> 08└─Not with Apple. Tim Cook is Steve Jobs' hand-picked successor. The company has a history of replacing CEOs with more aggressive types that nearly led to its total downfall in the 90s. Then Steve came back and saved the company from that corporate nonsense. I'm not saying that Apple is great or that...
[21:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Legality vs morality - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:49] <exec> 08└─What Apple was doing may not have been illegal*, but it sure as hell is wrong.
[21:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Re:This man knows how to mislead - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:52] <exec> 08└─They are essentially both guilty and both innocent. Ireland, legally (because it was a sovereign nation), offered a huge deal (pay no taxes) to Apple for reasons of their own. They later joined the EU, where this deal is illegal, and continued to offer Apple the "pay no taxes" deal. Meanwhile, Apple...
[21:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:The EU is dying - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:55] <exec> 08└─I'm taking a two week vacation in Germany this year. A weaker Euro and cheaper air-fair is awesome for tourism. Already have my ticket and passport too, only ~$700 for the round-trip. Going to Munich for Oktoberfest and then Stuttgart for Bad Cannstatt fest (better fest, imo). With a good mix of cas...
[21:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The EU is dying - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:57] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your trip. [gatestoneinstitute.org]
[21:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:The EU is dying - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:59] <exec> 08└─And the ONLY solution is to lower or nullify the tax rates for those poor, misunderstood multinational corporations!!1!!one!
[21:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How the EU should handle this - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:02] <exec> 08└─EU: Ireland, you need to get 14.5 billion USD back from Apple. You provided illegal state subsidies to them. You agreed to this rule that says you can't do this when you joined us. Ireland: na-hang... sure as hell we don't... it's not illegal state subsidies... something, errr... jobs! We're not ask...
[21:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:How the EU should handle this - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:04] <exec> 08└─Things will go even further -- Germany and France are already wondering about it all too: how much earnings did they actually miss from this whole fuckup, and how can they make clear this was all very naughty? The rest of the EU will follow -- suck it up, Apple, if you want to sell another iPhone in...
[21:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─Of course Apple setup a structure solely for the purpose of paying the minimum tax they could figure out how to get away with. And yes Ireland blessed it because they wanted Apple to come there, even if they did not get every possible benefit form the deal. And yes the US is grumpy because they didn...
[21:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:08] <exec> 08└─Two things: But all this does not make it immoral or illegal.
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[21:03:29] <exec> 08└─Why the anger?
[21:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh No! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:58] <exec> 08└─Right, this is specifically why nobody is allowed anywhere near a rocket during testing or launch who isn't intending to be launched into space. I do wonder a bit about how much of the equipment on the ground is going to have to be replaced in addition to the rocket and payload.
[21:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:08] <exec> 08└─When a rocket is "assembled" at the launch site it is a little more complicated and permanent than just plugging in some cables and strapping down the satellite. It is a process that takes weeks and involves semi permanent welded connections. After all of the work is done on the rocket is when they...
[21:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:40] <exec> 08└─If you want to grow Schedule I plants and fungi including cannabis, shrooms, peyote, (and soon) kratom in your own home, it is illegal. Forget importation or snake oil salesmen. You are not allowed to grow what you want, even if you have no intention of consuming or distributing it.
[21:05:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Company Towns gone virtual - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:18] <exec> 08└─The sharing economy's greatest star, Uber. After all the exploitation of its willing serfs, Uber will simply toss them aside in the gutter to die. All paid drivers will have to face off against the autobots soon enough. Better get a job as a security guard, cop, or bouncer, while those positions are...
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is NOT ''Socialist'' - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Socialist == Democracy EVERYWHERE ("Democratic Socialist" is redundant.) If there isn't a democracy in every WORKPLACE, what you have is NOT Socialism. This movement is an attempt to return USA to the Liberal Democracy|Social Democracy of the New Deal|Great Society (FDR|LBJ). Slightly little less Ol...
[21:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizen's United - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:32] <exec> 08└─Let’s see if we can find common ground here. At Soylent (and in other venues of life), you and I are peers, enjoying the same rights and freedoms. You are free to post as many comments as you like and rebuke any comment you happen to disagree with and I have the same access. Now suppose one of the...
[21:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─You appear to be conflating the term businessman|entrepreneur with "Capitalist". As an example, the 6 worker-owners[1] who founded Mondragon in 1956 were entrepreneurs. Their model, however, does not rely on borrowing from / debt to / dependence on a Capitalist. Their profit comes from their labor a...
[21:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:That's NOT Capitalism - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:52] <exec> 08└─You appear to be conflating the term businessman|entrepreneur with "Capitalist".
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[22:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Noobs! - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:58] <exec> 08└─I have a Beowulf cluster of Faraday cages that segregates each bit from each other to protect against attacks like this.
[22:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, if they'd just pray hard enough, Jesus would do It for them for free  We get it.
[22:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:22] <exec> 08└─I wasn't sure if you were being a good troll or not, now I am just sad for you. The no government style of living does not go well, and taxes are how we pay for collective benefits. We would all be driving on dirt roads right now without taxes, the only paved roads would be the highways and byways b...
[22:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letter of the Law vs Meaning of the Law - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:25] <exec> 08└─That would be a manifestly simplistic point of view. If you want to do business in our jurisdiction, you play by the rules decided upon democratically by the people of the jurisdiction. Otherwise you can go home and sulk or look for someone else to ruthlessly exploit and bully
[22:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:31] <exec> 08└─Brexit came as a shock to pretty much everyone in the establishment - they didn't want it, even the likes of Gove and Johnson.
[22:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:This man knows how to mislead - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 1860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:41] <exec> 08└─"They are essentially both guilty and both innocent. Ireland, legally (because it was a sovereign nation), offered a huge deal (pay no taxes) to Apple for reasons of their own. They later joined the EU, where this deal is illegal, and continued to offer Apple the "pay no taxes" deal." Again, if this...
[22:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:This man knows how to mislead - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:43] <exec> 08└─"There is an open question of whether Ireland is sovereign, and whether the EU can set this type of retroactive punishment (was it "state aid" or "tax law"?)." The is no question Ireland is a member of the EU and are required to follow the terms of admission to that body they agreed to when joining...
[22:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:54] <exec> 08└─If paying a tax rate of 0.005 percent is not immoral, it should be everybody's right. If it's everybody's right, who will pay for education, healthcare, roads, railways, enjoyable cities, libraries?
[22:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:56] <exec> 08└─Wait for all the companies to move to your country to enjoy your ultra low tax rate, then seize their assets and arrest all the execs in a single night, and nationalize the companies. ;-)
[22:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:58] <exec> 08└─"If paying a tax rate of 0.005 percent is not immoral, it should be everybody's right." Correct. "If it's everybody's right, who will pay for education, healthcare, roads, railways, enjoyable cities, libraries?" What makes you think these things have to be state funded? You realize that all but one...
[22:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coming soon, to a theatre near you: - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:00] <exec> 08└─Brexit II: The Fighting Irish They had to be bullied into approving the current treaty, now the EU wants to screw them up for doing exactly what the strongest argument was for joining the EU? Brilliant.
[22:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Foggy Profits - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:02] <exec> 08└─Calculating profits for an international company is proving convoluted and difficult. Different countries have different rules and often give limited access to other nations to inspect. Perhaps we can simplify things and just have a flat federal sales tax.
[22:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02must be Social Media App - 06Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah let me get right on that.
[22:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''CNN'' - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:25] <exec> 08└─You made me think of Jimmy Dore, [jimmydorecomedy.com] a guy who does politically-tinged humor. He likes to remind folks that one of the N's in CNN stands for "News"; the other stands for "not". . As to the AC's point, I like to know what abbreviations in company names stand for. ...and I like to in...
[22:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02First name? - 06Update: Source Code for Maru OS Released; Calls for Help with Device Support - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:29] <exec> 08└─Maru OS? As in Kobayashi Maru OS? I fear there is no way this ends well, unless we reprogram . . . Wait a minute! Those sly dogs!!!!
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:BREAKING NEWS! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─Wonky, the jig is up. You logged into the wrong account to make your useless OCD nitpick. The tango account is now burned as known wonkey_monkey sockpuppet.
[22:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism in Action! - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:02] <exec> 08└─You know, that's just not very nice at all. I would suggest you read something about tragedy by O.J Simpson, it was quite moving and pertinent to your shameful behavior sir. You'll find it at ////\.com
[22:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:08] <exec> 08└─The launch wasn't for another two days? Couldn't they have put a dummy payload on the rocket if they wanted to test it?
[22:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:10] <exec> 08└─All I'm saying is... Roko's basilisk.
[22:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/08/10/u-s-affirms-its-prohibition-on-medical-marijuana/ [washingtonpost.com] In the words of a 2015 Brookings Institution report, a move to Schedule II "would signal to the medical community that [the Food and Drug Administration and the Na...
[22:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/08/10/u-s-affirms-its-prohibition-on-medical-marijuana/ [washingtonpost.com] In the words of a 2015 Brookings Institution report, a move to Schedule II "would signal to the medical community that [the Food and Drug Administration and the Na...
[22:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''union ideology'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, right, we've heard this before. So how will you replace concentrations of capital when what enables a lot of the modern world is ... ... wait for it ... ... concentrated capital? At some point someone has to take a risk on an unproven (i.e. new) idea to achieve an advance in the state of affairs...
[22:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:''union ideology'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:40] <exec> 08└─Drivel.
[22:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:''union ideology'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:42] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, the Turkeys have been brainwashed into voting for Christmas and the Kippers for Breakfast.
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooked - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Wistfully superior, not smugly. I genuinely wish she would up her game and rise at least to the level of Ethanol Fueled.
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ends justifying the means - 06Wikileaks Screening - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─Well, if they're holding back then fuck em. That's about the only saving grace they could have is that they release all of the information all of the time. Everyone should release everything they have on all of our candidates for office. As far as I'm concerned, Hillary and Trump aren't that differe...
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[23:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Russians were wrong... - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:07] <exec> 08└─Never mind that the facts, let's just hate them anyway.
[23:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The Russians were wrong... - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:08] <exec> 08└─Pick your headline: "We Dunn Goofed our journalism" vs "The Russians caught lying about the proof of advanced ET communications"
[23:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:1) 02Oh my gosh, I was wrong. - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:11] <exec> 08└─It was earth all along. You finally made a money out of meeeee!
[23:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh my gosh, I was wrong. - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:13] <exec> 08└─For reference, you can see it in https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] That particular song starts 1:10 in.
[23:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Flashback...we've traced the call... - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:15] <exec> 08└─I could not help but flashback to... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The call is coming from inside the house
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Flashback...we've traced the call... - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:17] <exec> 08└─Then who was phone?
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ohh, that? - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:19] <exec> 08└─It was just Hillary Clinton with her self hosted phone system that uses satellites to bounce the signal off distant stellar objects. All legitimate State-Department business, Hillary has nothing to hide and there's nothing to see here. She was in no way providing classified information to her lizard...
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02SHETTI - 06It Was Earth All Along: Alien Signal Was Actually Just Terrestrial - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─Keep your terrestrial microwave signals and pulsars to yourself. We want color photographs of exoplanets with atmospheres, liquid water, and vegetation.
[23:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn it feels good to be a basement dweller! - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:30] <exec> 08└─That just changed, Mr. Streisand.
[23:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Noobs! - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:34] <exec> 08└─My VMs are so secure that I don't even have access to them. Break into them? Sure go ahead, you'll find what you bring in with you.
[23:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Hardware problem - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:36] <exec> 08└─I read a comment on /. that I tend to agree with. The problem here is simply an exploitable hardware defect. There might be some effective software workarounds and mitigations to get us through; but ultimately this needs to be solved with hardware that isn't susceptible to rowhammer type attacks.
[23:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Let's get real here - 06New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:38] <exec> 08└─The new technique can help to narrow down the essentially random bit flips of rowhammer, but it's hardly surgical. It's like saying "we have always known that hitting the right padlock with the right hammer will open it, and now we can determine where the padlock for our hammer is located within 6 c...
[23:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cook the Books - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:03] <exec> 08└─Know any good recipes?
[23:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enron - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:06] <exec> 08└─At all? Hint: The entity with the relevant laws was called EEC back then.
[23:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lol - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:14] <exec> 08└─Except, since most of their competition is doing the same shit as well, it could be argued that Apple won't necessarily be much worse off. Unless of course they are dead afraid of competition from small companies, which will be better off after the change.
[23:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:Completely missed the issue - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 3140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:33] <exec> 08└─To a certain aspect I'm sympathetic to your reasoning. Yes, you are right, much of what we today regard as public services were once, mainly, private services. Let's take, as a starting point, England's excellent toll road system as the first such public service -- a novelty in that time (around 171...
[23:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02might not be a problem for Apple - 06A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:37] <exec> 08└─According to one commentator, Apple's operations in the United States could have their taxes offset by the taxes paid in Europe. If that happens, the effect of this European enforcement action (on Apple) would be to permit Apple to move money to the United States. That would be desirable for Apple,...
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sendafiolorkar [6300] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Open/Libra Office - 06Austria Offering Up To €200,000 for Your FOSS Project - 2121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:47] <exec> 08└─It's not a bug it's a feature, from Microsoft side. Excerpt of the interview with Italo Vignoli of The Document Foundation, the organization responsible for developing LibreOffice which is a fork of OpenOffice: Swapnil Bhartiya: What are the practical and technological problems by using Microsoft’...
[23:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:45] <exec> 08└─They simply want u to believe it exploded and was destroyed. Its up there already.
[23:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The mission? - 06Kennedy Space Centre Explosion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:46] <exec> 08└─Sheeeeeeeit. They're a full member of the military industrial complex now.
[23:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevancy - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:14] <exec> 08└─We are not talking in person hundreds of years ago. It is trivial to pick out a minor mistake and twist that to invalid anyone's claim or miss a mistake through simple ignorance of the domain. By looking for the proof yourself, you learn far more of the subject area and can make a more accurate asse...
[23:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 1706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know how to prove to you that you're objectively wrong about cannabis. However, I was being half serious in my other comment calling for the DEA to be investigated for not scheduling alcohol and nicotine. As far as kratom here, I have no idea honestly. I can't point to any personal experienc...
[23:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:politics trumps facts again - 06DEA Welcomes Kratom to the Schedule I List Beginning September 30 - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:27] <exec> 08└─Tobacco and ethanol do not belong on the list either. Both may be abused and there are certainly some people who should never touch ethanol, but both have long been used as part of the natural pharmacopoeia. It was recently discovered that nicotine is one of the very few substances that can treat th...
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:from ze Germans - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─But it's not the Germans, is it? That's where Godwin strategies backfire.
[23:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''brainwashed'' - 06Uber Forms a Fake Union, Ostensibly for its Drivers - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:22] <exec> 08└─Some of us thought that the 'Net would be the great equalizer and truth would defeat propaganda. An addiction to commercial TeeVee / hate radio is very difficult for some to break, however. . I've mentioned before that, back in 1985, [google.com] the Italians figured out that when Capitalists aren't...
[23:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hooked - 06Our Economy Should Promote a Shared Prosperity - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:48] <exec> 08└─Wistful or smug, neither are actually superior. But you sure can't resist the bait.
[23:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:It really shipped - 06PocketCHIP Handheld Computer Reviewed - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:45] <exec> 08└─If you try S3D, be aware that they have a 10 or 15 day return policy. I tried it -- hated it for printing ABS due to the way it set up the first layer of supports (no hash underneath and so they often came unstuck and ruined the print). The problem might also be in the STL on thingiverse. One thing...
[23:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:surprised it lasted so long - 06ITT Tech: Enrollments Frozen by Regulators - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that Trump-U never qualified for the federal student loan program. His salesguys were trained to convince their marks to max out their credit cards instead.
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