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[00:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're always new, aren't they? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:53] <exec> 08└─There was the original (old) Taiwan Dollar that was issued by the Nationalist Chinese Government between 1946 to 1949 to replace the Taiwanese Yen that they used during the previous period of Japanese colonial rule. Hyperinflation during the Chinese Civil War led the Nationalists to issue the New Ta...
[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─They were caught, and most of the money was recovered. Seems they weren't very good at the collection part of the operation. Masks, hoodies, scarves, balaclavas.. Were the people sent to collect just dumb?
[00:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Inconspicuous... - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─Sure, Taiwanese people are unlikely to remember East-European "Foreigners" standing by cash machines, preventing people from getting to them at certain times... Said Foreigners are totally going to be unrecognizable on various bank surveillance cameras... Must have been a short investigation.
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:14] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness Trump was elected -- he'll just get things done. He'll ignore everyone's input, then sign an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention site, and order the prisoners returned to their respective countries of origin. As a result, he'll win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why, yes I w...
[00:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─> if those goods aren't priced three times higher than the competition. It was recently reported that Apple looked at what it would cost to build Iphones in the US and found that it would double the price. [nikkei.com] So, to keep everything equal, import tarrifs would have to double the price for a...
[00:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't so much the TPP, but how it was negotiated and a general distrust towards omnibus bills. I've been listening to Ha-Joon Chang, and he has point with regards to using tariffs to allow for some industries to gain a footing before they are exposed to worldwide competition. If we were to...
[00:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:29] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid you miss the point. There is an argument to be made about the merits of piecemeal or omnibus trade agreements. Somewhat like the pros and cons of the line-item veto. But that's not what I'm talking about. Clinton's support of the TPP was in large part because she was a creature of wallst...
[00:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:32] <exec> 08└─"Investors" were going to "win" with, or without, TPP, TTIP, TC/IP or whatever. The game is still rigged, they just were trying to remove some legal hurdles (like, complying with laws of other countries.)
[00:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Current Year - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:34] <exec> 08└─But the KKK were opposed to the TPP. Why would you support such bigotry? This is just racism towards other countries, and is homophobic to the core.
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─I do not plan to RTFA but unless they told him to put the marketing BS on the website, it is not his concern.
[00:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Someone else will do it anyway" - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─You are asking people to take a boot to their wallet out of altruism. That's asking a lot.
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not So Bad - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:27] <exec> 08└─Don't ignore the progress that's been made. One of the biggest 'unknown' success stories of the last 40 years is the 70% reduction of people living in extreme poverty. [businessinsider.com] Its gone from 2.2 billion to 0.7 billion. All while the total population nearly doubled. That is just an insan...
[00:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:New physics, interesting - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:00] <exec> 08└─MiHsC seems to cover it. Not old science or new science but ignored science.
[00:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:09] <exec> 08└─It has been noticed. Casimir effect. Changes in orbits sometimes add velocity. Lots and lots of really little things - and lots of Hubble scale effects to. Check out MiHsC
[00:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:45] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those people who find reading eInk to be a lot easier than reading on a tablet, and I find even light web browsing with my Kindle to be a far superior experience than I have gotten with an iPad. I have a wifi paperwhite, and I'm relatively happy with it but I have to find that my older Ki...
[00:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:21] <exec> 08└─You do know that there's a vast number of people who live in rural areas and aren't poor. Maybe you should learn what they're doing right?
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[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02More data - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─If you've dealt with the feet of people who wear shoes all the time verses people who are usually barefoot, you notice how people's feet actually deform to the shoes, sometimes in rather grotesque ways. There was a different study that suggested that extra padding on shoes confused the whole of the...
[01:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tradional naked Olympics - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:51] <exec> 08└─traditional naked Olympics may increase advertising revenue! Money grab!!
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─too lazy to actually read the article, but the 'spewing millions' ? ? ? ATMs have the CAPACITY for 'millions' ? ? ? unless it is one of those currencies where a million somethings = $1US... otherwise, i find it hard to believe it would be loaded with 'millions' even if it had the capacity...
[01:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:19] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with this. Copyright extension has long been a contentious issue with me. One of my main complaints with HRC was that she was in bed with entertainment producers to the detriment of the common man. Fuck Sonny Bono and the horse he rode in on and all those that followed in his footste...
[01:45:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:20] <exec> 08└─We might need decent trade agreements, but what we don't need are trade agreements negotiated in secret that are just thinly-veiled corporate supremacy treaties which force even more draconian copyright and patent rules down everyone's throats. Stop that sort of garbage and there won't be so much re...
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:25] <exec> 08└─> If anyone needed any reason to wonder why so many people voted for Trump, they could probably just start and finish at things like the TPP. Economic anxiety is a popular narrative for explaining Trump. But the single greatest predictor of support for Trump in both the primaries and pre-election po...
[01:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─Wait one. Trump didn't bring out any cultural anxiety. The alt-left in this country has been bringing that out for the past few years. BLM, for instance. They have made it quite clear that ONLY black lives matter. To say that "all lives matter" is considered a challenge by BLM, and repeatedly, we ar...
[01:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:29] <exec> 08└─TPP would be relevant to cultural anxiety too. And there's not a clean separation between the two categories anyway.
[01:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:37] <exec> 08└─We care less about exports, than we do about imports, because the imports are what cost us - the American home makers and heads of households - the most. I, the individual head of household, would prefer to buy a slightly more expensive version of the item I need, that is made here in America, becau...
[01:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:46] <exec> 08└─Cancellation of the TPP doesn't mean further trade agreements are off the table. Losses in some sectors of the markets usually doesn't translate across the board, and there has been historically rallies before holidays. Per http://www.msn.com
[01:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current Year - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─The KKK is tired of all those fitted sheets coming from China.
[01:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current Year - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─Oh the ignominy of having to buy your LARPing costume from China. And the wood for your cross? Uh-huh, that's from Canada. And the fuel is probably from one of those A-rab counties. What's a god fearin', country lovin', not so keen on them overly suntanned people Klansmen to do?
[01:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Women banned men from female children. Deserve thi - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:45] <exec> 08└─Women banned men from female children. Men used to have female children as brides. Then cunts did feminism (proped up by New-Testament only christianity and english translations of the bible) They deserve this drug.
[01:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Women banned men from female children. Deserve - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:47] <exec> 08└─You should go tell the police your little sob story. They might give you a free room to stay in for awhile.
[01:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:53] <exec> 08└─"Yet we usually don't dedicate anywhere near as much time or money picking them..." Men used to just marry a cute female child. They didn't used to have to spend too much time picking which roastie whore would stab them in the back.
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─This, MiHsC is hitler though?
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[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02People have forgotten the healthy way to walk. - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:56] <exec> 08└─The best gait is heel to heel with completely straight legs and no shoes for cushioning. Gives your knee and hip cartilage a good work out.
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People have forgotten healthy way to sleep. - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:58] <exec> 08└─Tell us, dear sage, how the invention of electric light disrupted the ancient practice of second sleep [slumberwise.com].
[02:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What kind of surface? - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:00] <exec> 08└─Quick scan over the article shows no data about the other factor: surface. Was this tested with runners going over grass? Cement? Homologated race track? Gym machine? Sand? What exactly? And not to invalidate the study, but to provide the full information so the study doesn't cause further issues li...
[02:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trends - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:02] <exec> 08└─Nike is changing their name to Nakie.
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:15] <exec> 08└─No, just greedy. The way this hack is supposed to be done, you rig every ATM to give everyone free money on a certain day, then you forget to set your alarm, and you sleep through free money day, but don't collect any free money yourself.
[02:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Informative) 02Ever see an ATM filled? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:17] <exec> 08└─CSB. Back in the 80s I had a gf who was a VP at Wells Fargo. We were hanging out one Saturday when she got a page. She called a co-worker, told me we had to run an errand. Got into her car and picked up her co-worker, another VP. Went to a nondescript building in a strip mall. Co-worker went in, cam...
[02:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ever see an ATM filled? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:19] <exec> 08└─Do the ATM fillers carry keys that have to be turned simultaneously to open the ATM? Do they carry guns, so one of them can shoot the other one, if one tries to steal? What if they both decide to steal and split the money?
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─> We care less about exports, than we do about imports, because the imports are what cost us - the American home makers and heads of households - the most. Huh? Then you should want them to be as cheap as possible. Your arguments are irrational because you are trying to backfit a rationalization int...
[02:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02grasping at straws - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:57] <exec> 08└─I think that's grasping at straws. Trump's sales-pitch was that the TPP sacrificed main-street for wall-street. If these new, completely hypothetical future trade agreements are going to be so great for wall-street, then it seems unlikely they are going to be any better for main-street than the TPP...
[02:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02The big conflict this century - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:03] <exec> 08└─The big conflict this century is to determine whether multinational corporations or governments are going to be in charge. I'm in a country where the citizenry have a fair amount of control of the government nu voting, so I am decidedly on the side of the governments. The TPP was negotiated in secre...
[02:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:16] <exec> 08└─Or we can just scapegoat "big banks"
[02:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:28] <exec> 08└─You must mean Befehl ist Befehl [wikipedia.org]
[02:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─So... what happened to the person who deserved to win and didn't?
[02:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:29] <exec> 08└─Well, if and when, then I'll have Dewey's ships upgrading from the terrawatt ion drives.
[02:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:32] <exec> 08└─Fig. 19 is not that bad, considering they have a good explanation for it. They had thermal issues (the cavity changing shape and size) due to the heat sources in a vacuum and those get worse when they increase power. They really should have motorized their three-stub tuner, so that they could match...
[02:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:34] <exec> 08└─"Color me underwhelmed. For starters, I'm not going to run out and open my wallet based upon their Figure 19. The " No one's asking you to, cunt.
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─although solar panels won't be ideal for some journeys.
[02:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit too specific in the headline - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:55] <exec> 08└─What they're specifically talking about here is "malting" ie. germinating barley to trigger the conversion of starches to sugars for use in the brewing process. High germination is obviously of utmost importance in this process.
[02:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:21] <exec> 08└─Would you be willing to post your kernel config to a pastebin? I'd love to try compiling exactly what you have to see what I get.
[02:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:41] <exec> 08└─No, it was coal, no water or forced air added. We burned coke in a blacksmithing class I took four decades ago, though.
[02:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow! - 06Oracle Buys Dyn - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:09] <exec> 08└─Unbound is free open source software. You mean if I install two Unbound servers in the cloud and put up a web site telling everyone to use my public DNS service, I can make hundreds of millions of dollars too? Wow!
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[03:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dinosaurs were gay. - 06Cretaceous Bird Find Holds New Color Clue - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:52] <exec> 08└─Dinosaurs had pink feathers and they were totally gay. Especially when they went gay bathing in tar pits.
[03:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seems like two different points - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:06] <exec> 08└─The point about not landing on one's heels when one is running I would quickly second. One time decades ago, when I was more naive, the guy in the treadmill next to me (who was also a coworker in my company) informed me I was "doing it wrong" and showed me how to make a full stride, landing on my he...
[03:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bunion also - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:07] <exec> 08└─Repeated, sustained banging on the ball joint can cause bunion on those genetically susceptible.
[03:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─One ATM doesn't, but all of Chase's together might.
[03:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:24] <exec> 08└─I'd think that they did this to several ATMs all across Taiwan. A typical ATM probably contains about 10,000 bank notes of varying denominations when full. This happened in Taiwan, so there are NT$100, NT$200, NT$500, NT$1000, and NT$2000 bills, probably roughly equal quantities of each, say 2000 bi...
[03:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Ever see an ATM filled? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think a typical ATM contains anywhere near enough money for embezzlement to be worth the risk. $20,000 isn't going to be able to pay for a comfortable life in a non-extradition country. I imagine though they'd usually be accompanied by armed guards lest they be robbed.
[03:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:45] <exec> 08└─To me, that seemed to be a matter of upholding capitalism and fairness. When people don't respect copyright, then the cost of music, books, and movies goes into free fall, as we've seen. But the world has changed, you say. Well, it's quite a different matter if everyone decided they didn't want to l...
[03:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:51] <exec> 08└─It depends on what you mean by "close". Politicians have this knack of using words that imply something, like "ending the practice of due process free detention" to make people feel warm and fuzzy, while meaning something totally different, like "closing down Gitmo and moving the PRACTICE of due pro...
[03:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:53] <exec> 08└─My concern exactly. How many people will slither out in the next 2 months and tell Trump that it's just too hard to pull out of the TPP because reasons? Fortunately, it will be hard for the special interest groups to get their way by sandbagging, as it's them that need things to keep moving.
[03:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I have the WAPO blocked in my /etc/hosts. Remember the Maine! https://images.duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] You want to talk fake news? The WAPO is the place to start.
[03:46:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─"higher priced goods imported into the US" That would be a "good thing". People looking for new clothes, kitchen utensils, auto parts, etc will purchase American goods, if those goods aren't priced three times higher than the competition. People start buying American goods, more Americans will go to...
[03:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:52] <exec> 08└─Guns don't kill people, people do.
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:12] <exec> 08└─Illegal does not mean immoral, slight distinction but very important. I done some bad things, even technically illegal, but not immoral. But if you work with me, you will get a good manager who actually cares about you; so much that even people I fired, will greet me if I meet them in the street. I...
[03:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Outlet ... - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:28] <exec> 08└─In the U.S. of A. the voter bot is YOU!
[03:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that theory is a bit farther out there, but having already knocked one set of "known physical laws" on their ear, we should at least give the guy some funding to work on his next idea - no matter how wonky it seems.
[03:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:38] <exec> 08└─I uploaded it all to a server here: http://thorns.aeonazure.com [aeonazure.com] And the pre-built debs [from: $make -j7 bindeb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-zdm]: http://thorns.aeonazure.com [aeonazure.com] htt...
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[04:45:40] <exec> 08└─What are you getting at?
[04:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:59] <exec> 08└─Your claim that it would double in price seems based on "a source"s (not necessarily Apple) claim that it would double in _cost_. Maybe a supplier's cost might double but that supplier's cost doesn't make up the bulk of Apple's price. MIT estimates it'll be a hundred bucks more: https://www.technolo...
[04:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for.
[04:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─You are seeing the end of a bubble. Before a bubble bursts it is always lollipops and sunshine and record highs. 0% interest rates and massive deficit spending can not go on and on. Trump will be the one stuck with the bill and then the blame. Like Bush was blamed for the pop of Clinton's bubble and...
[04:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''money (that often doesn't even exist)'' - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:30] <exec> 08└─You could have left out the "often". Since we (and the rest of the world) went off the gold standard (then abandoned the silver standard), all "money" has simply been IOUs. A bunch of times, really smart chick Ellen Brown[1] has explained this. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org] [Leg...
[04:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:38] <exec> 08└─Back away from the Amazon Prime TV!
[04:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:45] <exec> 08└─*terawatt [wikipedia.org] sexy though
[04:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:59] <exec> 08└─Compact fusion on a spacecraft would be great. There are also designs for fusion rockets that are similar to ion engines. RTGs have some problems, and fission reactors would run out of fuel somewhat quickly. Both of those have the risk of spreading radioactive material if the ship blows up in Earth'...
[04:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:05] <exec> 08└─640x480 certainly existed in early laptops. Never seen a standalone screen of that resolution. I have seen one standalone 800x600 screen. The smallest common resolution seems to be 1024x768, though that's still relatively uncommon compared to the 1280x1024 which was very popular for a few years.
[04:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:39] <exec> 08└─I uploaded it all to a server here: Hope this helps
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[05:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:2) 02rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:50] <exec> 08└─>Steph has even received online rape threats in the past So did I(I'm male), and every other FPS player in existence. Welcome to the internet. It got so bad Wargaming removed global chat from World of Tanks :) >Steph Harvey is one of the most successful gamers in the world no, most successful woman...
[05:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score:2) 02So.. - 06Girl Gamers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:51] <exec> 08└─If I understand it correctly, their complaint is that they are not treated different than male players?
[05:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02I'm a gamer girl! - 06Girl Gamers - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:53] <exec> 08└─95 times out of 100 it's just an empty label. It has zero to do with abuse too. That's just what many say to gain 'geek cred' which became popular. At least that's what i see when trying to discuss level design, character development, game mechanics, story arcs, strategy, tactics, artwork, graphi...
[05:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:55] <exec> 08└─"I am not female, but . . . " We need a new term. Gamersplaining? How so few can talk so much about what they know so little about. Gamersplaining.
[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:58] <exec> 08└─Who hasn't received online rape and death threats?
[05:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Yawn - 06Girl Gamers - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:00] <exec> 08└─I play online games, players spew hate at me online, they hurl abuse and call me a bot and a cheater, claim they are going fsck me up all the time. You know the difference, I am man and don't take it seriously. Ever since I've been playing on a competitive team, when Unreal Tournament came out the h...
[05:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not a gamer. But it seems to me that if women and girls could carve out a decent sized niche of the gaming scene, and their emphasis hopefully would not be about killing as many opponents as efficiently as possible, then that would make the entire industry that much more interesting. It's like w...
[05:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is gender is meaningless on the internet. Nobody gives a shit who or what you are online. You will be judged only on what you say and what you do. And in games any personal information gained will just be another avenue to insult. Or to the point. "there are no girls on the internet." W...
[05:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Maybe her reality cheque bounced - 06Girl Gamers - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:06] <exec> 08└─She may be the best female gamer around, but if the awards are for the top 100 gamers, and she is ranked 150, why does she deserve recognition for not cutting the mustard? Or is this another example of equal rights = special rights?
[05:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02So.. - 06Cretaceous Bird Find Holds New Color Clue - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:16] <exec> 08└─what colour were they?
[05:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:So.. - 06Cretaceous Bird Find Holds New Color Clue - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:18] <exec> 08└─Given that they are all dead, I'd say they were all "Norwegian Blue".
[05:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bunion also - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Do you have a source for this? I have a bunion-like big toe, but am fairly certain it started when my big toe was hit end-on and one of the joints dislocated. I relocated it my self at the time with a big yank (everyone is invulnerable in high school, right?), but it was never quite rig...
[05:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Bunion also - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:34] <exec> 08└─a big yank
[05:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02What? - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:37] <exec> 08└─[Editors note: I wonder if Vibram will get its money back based off this study?
[05:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:39] <exec> 08└─To add, one of the major part of Vibram's claim was their shoes strengthen foot muscles which is not backed up at all by this study.
[05:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anecdotal - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:41] <exec> 08└─I wear vibrams. I have for a long time now. I spend a lot of time on my feet (although I don't run for pleasure). My feet are definitely stronger than before I made the change. It has generally improved my gait. Vibram's problem wasn't that their claims were BS, it was that they couldn't back them w...
[05:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Anecdotal - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:43] <exec> 08└─If their claims weren't BS then were is the evidence? Why would they have settled if they had independent, peer-reviewed evidence for their claims?
[05:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:14] <exec> 08└─Have I ever mentioned, Runaway, that one of the things I like most about you is your ironclad dedication to keeping the tenor of discourse classy and high-minded at all times? And how you're never, ever a complete dumpster fire of a human being, even in jest?
[05:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Current Year - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:53] <exec> 08└─Drink bleach, with any luck...
[05:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoodBookOfTaunts [3804] (Score:1) 02Sony Large Format E-Reader - DPT-S1 - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:50:04] <exec> 08└─I've seen comments online that the "SONY Digital Paper DPT-S1" is a suitable option for large format E-Ink PDF reading. Expensive though, and now discontinued. Supposedly a new version is being readied for next year. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] h...
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[06:44:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:52] <exec> 08└─"I am not female, but . . . " We need a new term. Gamersplaining? How so few can talk so much about what they know so little about. Gamersplaining.
[06:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02No no no.. - 06Girl Gamers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:58] <exec> 08└─it is all about ethics in journalism!
[06:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:00] <exec> 08└─e-sports is a meritocracy, the only thing holding women back is women. Nothing is stopping them from pouring thousands of hours into something to hone their skills so they too can be included at the top-level of competitive play. they just want to get there easier because they have a gash between th...
[06:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:02] <exec> 08└─Nothing is stopping them from pouring thousands of hours into something to hone their skills so they too can be included at the top-level of competitive play.
[06:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:05] <exec> 08└─yes, as do men. the difference is, the majority of women would rather do something else than spend thousands of hours honing their skills on one thing. you remember even 10-15 years ago, women would look down on you for spending so much time on a task, saying things such as "why are you always on th...
[06:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Girls (female children) should be married to men. - 06Girl Gamers - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:07] <exec> 08└─>>99191708 The hebrew translates to: If a man rapes(takes, like how you would take a city or control an instrument or weapon) a young girl (the hebrew word used here means a young person from the age of infancy to adolecence, it is female gender by implication as woman/female is specified later in t...
[06:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Men are from Mars, women from Venus - 06Girl Gamers - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:09] <exec> 08└─Men would seem to have the ability to concentrate on some very small and specific thing and become experts in it. Not just games. And there are idiots online. With billions of people connected quite a few bad apples will be included. Men and women... I find e-sports interesting but only as long as t...
[06:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:So.. - 06Cretaceous Bird Find Holds New Color Clue - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:20] <exec> 08└─Okay, were they ALL yellow and blue, OR are we still at "no idea"... http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[06:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Seems like two different points - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:34] <exec> 08└─There are differences in people's gaits, but that's usually either learned or because of injury. There will be some variation due to the differing proportions of the body, but somethings are generally good and others are bad. Landing on the heel always ends badly if done over a period of time. A lar...
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[06:45:43] <exec> 08└─Read again. They did NOT have independent, peer-reviewed evidence. I know that. They had a solid idea, and forget that americans like to start the morning with a nice run, a cup of coffee and a lawsuit. As for why they settled: they didn't want the distraction, they wanted to make it go away and go...
[06:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:16] <exec> 08└─You two are such a cute couple!
[06:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:30] <exec> 08└─That's because the All Lives Matter thing was started specifically as a challenge of BLM. BLM has some major problems in terms of PR, strategy and aim, but you're grossly mischaracterizing it.
[06:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:41] <exec> 08└─No, it is you who is incapable of understanding a rational line of thought. Included above is the likelihood that the higher priced item is going to be produced by people within my own local economy. Higher prices, in a healthy economy, beats hell out of the low prices in an unhealthy economy. But,...
[06:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The big conflict this century - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:00] <exec> 08└─Your vote is worthless: women have it too: no child brides for you.
[06:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:24] <exec> 08└─But MiHsC is hitler, right? "I will raise from the grave and then you will know that I was right" Direct conversion of energy to momentum is what he was speaking of, correct?
[06:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:28] <exec> 08└─"Consider the thrust produced by the Casimir effect." Nazi CIS white male bullshit. Probably want to rape young girls too. AOC should be 25, fucking white males.
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[07:44:45] <exec> 08└─> Is NBC trying to get around the damage the American presidential election did to its reputation? Lolwut? Facebook and, to a lesser extent, google lost reputation. Not NBC.
[07:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Damage? - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention increasing your reputation by investing in Buzzfeed is... where do I even begin?
[07:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:56] <exec> 08└─Transsexuals are not actually female...
[07:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:58] <exec> 08└─Transsexuals are not actually female...
[07:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:01] <exec> 08└─When did they start doing sex testing for online gaming? I guess, it's a good thing that I don't play online games as I'm not sure I want to have to drop trow in order to play games. The whole idea that there's this conspiracy against women is rather ridiculous. In most cases you have no idea who is...
[07:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─I guess, it's a good thing that I don't play online games as I'm not sure . . .
[07:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:06] <exec> 08└─I also wonder how many of these women players have brothers? There's a degree of trash talk that goes with men and competition. Guess what? That's part of the game. It's meant to throw you off your stride and make errors. Gentlemen and competition goes out the window once money is involved. Similarl...
[07:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:15] <exec> 08└─There are still people in hip hop that don't consider the Beastie Boys as a part of the club (even though they were appropriating a lot of their sound), although no one really talks shit about Eminem. Once you hit hard enough, you are the club.
[07:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:22] <exec> 08└─No. Well, yes, to some extent. But have you seen the amount of sexist drivel in /general? If women don't want to have to wade through that crap, I honestly can't blame them. Heck, I don't want to most of the time. Guys seem to be terrible at creating a friendly environment and actively seem to take...
[07:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:24] <exec> 08└─Guys seem to be terrible at creating a friendly environment and actively seem to take pride in hating on new players and in particular anyone who pipes up about maybe it'd be nice to be a bit less hostile.
[07:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Girls (female children) should be married to me - 06Girl Gamers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:28] <exec> 08└─Kinda like how everyone here entices to follow feminist rulers rather than the God of D__teronomy.
[07:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Girls (female children) should be married to me - 06Girl Gamers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:31] <exec> 08└─Humor me. What is the point of posting this constantly?
[07:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Not buying this storyline - 06Girl Gamers - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not buying it. Ok, maybe you ladies get some shit from jerks and can't deal with it. Maybe it is worse than the abuse every gamer gets, maybe women just don't want to deal with it; diversity includes differences in tolerance for insults. Whatever, form a girls team. No issue with that part. B...
[07:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Not buying this storyline - 06Girl Gamers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:37] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not buying it.
[07:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Most surfaces - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:59] <exec> 08└─I ran "barefoot" for a year in totally flat thin outsoles tied to my feet like sandals. Asphalt, concrete, dirt, grass, and "packed" gravel all were fine. Beware of cacti and thrice-damned goat's head thorns [wikipedia.org] if you're using open shoes, tho. The key was starting slow and not pushing t...
[07:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:44] <exec> 08└─keeping the tenor of discourse classy and high-minded at all times?
[07:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:09] <exec> 08└─I, the individual head of household, would prefer to buy a slightly more expensive version of the item I need, that is made here in America
[07:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current Year - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:28] <exec> 08└─Have I ever mentioned, Azuma Hazuki, that one of the things I like most about you is your ironclad dedication to keeping the tenor of discourse classy and high-minded at all times? And how you're never, ever a complete dumpster fire of a human being, even in jest? And your inability to get a joke?
[07:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''money (that often doesn't even exist)'' - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:43] <exec> 08└─Huh, even _on_ the gold standard the money creation happened. Since we (and the rest of the world) went off the gold standard (then abandoned the silver standard), all "money" has simply been IOUs.
[07:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:56] <exec> 08└─Said in unison every morning at Google and Facebook and _insert-USAian_big_data_corporation_. The new Pledge of Allegiance, just like in Grade 1.
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[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:00] <exec> 08└─Look, Pal - this "dumbing down of America" has gone far enough. Transexuals aren't female. It's that simple. If you insist on being retarded, go right ahead, but you aren't convincing anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size.
[08:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah the competitive gaming world has plenty of bad and rude people. If that puts you off your game, you're not a winner material. I'd only consider it serious if the person who made the threat actually physically started stalking you or similar (then it's time for stuff like restraining orders or e...
[08:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can collect a special tax and set up a hotline like they do in Sweden? http://www.upi.com [upi.com]
[08:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:13] <exec> 08└─It's more specifically that they got threats because of their gender. And FWIW I've never had rape threats, probably because I'm male and the trolls tend to think of themselves as alpha manly men who definitely don't want to have sex with me under any circumstances.
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:19] <exec> 08└─Needs an update http://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[08:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:29] <exec> 08└─>a friendly welcoming environment >a competitive environment pick one and only one.
[08:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02I saw some of this - 06Girl Gamers - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─I watch the overwatch World Cup a couple of weeks ago that was streamed on twitch.tv . The entire competition was male with the exception of one trans girl on the French team. While there was plenty of insults in twitch chat towards the fatter male players. The level of abuse that was directed towar...
[08:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re: I saw some of this - 06Girl Gamers - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:39] <exec> 08└─Aside from anything else, if gaming wants to be taken seriously as a sport then competition organizers need to get a handle on all of the abuse. It goes way beyond the acceptable level of friendly competition, especially when it gets gendered or transphobic. If you can't win without being a bigot, y...
[08:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score:1) 02Liars and damn liars - 06Girl Gamers - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─Another opinion piece claiming that gaming culture harasses women and drives them away with threats. Certainly I don't want to minimize the pain any individual feels as a result of harassment but I and everyone I know who play games online have suffered threats of rape and murder at one time or anot...
[08:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:01] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not mischaracterizing. With BLM, they aren't rioting over the obviously innocent. There are a number of young black males who were very obviously MURDERED, on camera. BLM has little if anything to say about those. BLM instead protests the deaths of those who are less obviously innocent, as w...
[08:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Re:Some good news, at least - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:07] <exec> 08└─Why is a russian concerned by TPP? (Based on the name).
[08:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:32] <exec> 08└─The Hawking radiation that nobody has ever observed, despite several missions designed to find it? Given that it was first proposed in 1970-something, that's quite a time to remain without any experimental evidence whatsoever. To be honest, I'm not saying I don't. I'm saying that having an easy, ima...
[08:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:34] <exec> 08└─That Hawking radiation has not been observed is a legitimate statement but it also applies to an electron. For both there is lots of evidence but neither is directly observable. Sure Hawking radiation is buried a little deeper but if it is not there we lose too many good explanations for too many th...
[08:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linus? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:58] <exec> 08└─You just fishing for an excuse to justify your gut desire to hold up the release?
[08:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:10] <exec> 08└─Not all Chinese live in the city.
[08:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not a problem - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:38] <exec> 08└─I take comfort in knowing that nothing Trump can do will kill Earth. Humanity on the other hand ...
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[09:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:06] <exec> 08└─No, the failure is on your education. Male and female are specific terms referring to the biological sex. Trans-women have the XY chromosomes and are therefore male.
[09:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:17] <exec> 08└─My question is - does anyone important really give a damn? Really, I don't give the smallest damn if the boys in town are doing well at their so-called "e-sports". WTF should I care that the girls aren't doing well? Sad Puppies all over again. I like puppies, why don't you?
[09:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:20] <exec> 08└─Alpha men? More like alpha boys. My guess would be that you don't get rape threats not because you are a man (other men in this discussion report that they do get rape threats), but because you don't play with 13 year olds, and/or you don't play COD/CSGO/DOTA2.
[09:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─It's more specifically that they got threats because of their gender.
[09:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No no no.. - 06Girl Gamers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:31] <exec> 08└─No, it's all about your Don Quixote complex. The giants are just windmills.
[09:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:39] <exec> 08└─True. I'm a guy and I don't play online much because of the unfriendliness all of the time. I don't mind much but I don't like it either. If you want to be a pro-gamer though, you'll have to put up with that. Most of the hate isn't even directed at anything in particular, just random insults, *until...
[09:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not buying this storyline - 06Girl Gamers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:48] <exec> 08└─It would be better if you refuted his points, I for one would be interested in reading such a refutation, because at the moment I find myself in agreement with him, and I'd really rather not be cos mostly he's a complete fruitloop.
[09:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02damns - 06Girl Gamers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:53] <exec> 08└─I just can't find a damn to give.
[09:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How to get rid of prejudices - 06Girl Gamers - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:55] <exec> 08└─An important part of the discrimination comes from the prejudice that women don't play games, women are no good at competitive games, etc. So, how do we get rid of this prejudice? By proving them wrong - by going in and beating the crap out of the male players (virtually, of course - I'm not suggest...
[09:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake News - 06Girl Gamers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:57] <exec> 08└─The BBC article is disingenuous. See https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[09:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More data - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:15] <exec> 08└─I'd take that over my feet deforming due to nails or shards of glass. Or stepping into poo or boiling hot asphalt. I've been wearing shoes for decades and the deformation is tolerable (just some calluses). Those who think padding is the problem are basically making the argument that running on rock...
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[09:47:10] <exec> 08└─The question is not so much if it is favourable to Americans or Europeans; most of the population in Europe also opposes the trade agreement. It's long past the time where the conflict was mainly US against Russia, EU, China or whatever. The main conflict is rich/big enterprises vs. users and averag...
[09:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good news, at least - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:26] <exec> 08└─Why is a russian concerned by TPP? (Based on the name).
[09:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just following orders - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:36] <exec> 08└─Those people following orders in Nazi Germany had more at stake than just their wallets. Same for the soldiers doing all that bad stuff for the the North Korean regime. Their situation is even more difficult than yours. In the NK case their families would probably be imprisoned for life if not kille...
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[10:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:11] <exec> 08└─It's actually more complex than that, if you look at the science. There are 14 markers for biological sex, and XY/XX chromosones are but one. Some kids are born with other chromosonal types (XXY and such), and others are born with intermediate genitalia that are not clearly either male or female. So...
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[10:45:16] <exec> 08└─> And it will be a tacit admission that women can't compete at the same level as men. This is why I don't have any interest in joining women-only groups or competitions. If I am going to win something, I want it to be because I am good, not because I am good in an artificially small group based on s...
[10:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:these non-issue SJW stories are so tiring. - 06Girl Gamers - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:42] <exec> 08└─Guys aren't actually hostile to each other. The masculine "rough and tumble" play and it's social extension is more of a bond-making mechanism than actual hostility. Males are perfectly capable of cooperating with each other, and in fact they've evolved to compete with other groups instead of each o...
[10:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not buying this storyline - 06Girl Gamers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:51] <exec> 08└─I am interested in his opinions even when I disagree with him. If you want an echo-chamber you are welcome to join or make one. SN is not your personal liberal circle-jerk.
[10:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: I saw some of this - 06Girl Gamers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:55] <exec> 08└─Twitch chat is considered cancer by pretty much everyone in the gaming community. They are about as representative of gamers as Stormfront is representative of Internet forum users.
[10:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:17] <exec> 08└─Go do a little search on why Obama hasn't closed gitmo yet. It's not for lack of trying. There are plenty of people in the pentagon and congress who didn't like the idea and sandbagged where ever possible.
[10:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''money (that often doesn't even exist)'' - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:04] <exec> 08└─Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower's bank account, thereby creating new money.
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[11:44:55] <exec> 08└─11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. - Genesis 7:11-12 (NIV) There's enough wate...
[11:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Damage? - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:10] <exec> 08└─Well, this is a 'news' channel who hasn't been right on anything for 2 years... So not the brightest bulbs around. People did notice too. msnbc/nbc and cnn lost all their viewers around this area.
[11:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:25] <exec> 08└─What you describe are various degrees of genetic hermaphroditism, or intersex, that occur naturally, although rarely. Transexuals do not occur naturally. It's individuals that transition from one sex to another through surgery and/or hormonal therapy because their perceived gender mismatches with th...
[11:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─Which is why I've always supported women in my favorite sport (autoracing), but will absolutely brook no quarter for being women (you will give as good as you get). Yes, it is probably going to harder just because you are the new kid and it is overly machismo, but once you win [youtube.com], no one...
[11:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:35] <exec> 08└─So did I(I'm male)
[11:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:37] <exec> 08└─How would you know? Every player could be either male or female (or somewhere in between or nothing or whatever) with any sexual orientation. If someone shouts "I'll fraggin' rape you!" at someone else without knowing any of the aforementioned variables, then that's hardly a rape threat. Distasteful...
[11:47:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 962 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:29] <exec> 08└─If anyone needed any reason to wonder why so many people voted for Trump, they could probably just start and finish at things like the TPP. A multinational trade deal, cooked up and pushed by special interest groups, negotiated in secret (because they KNEW that the content would be unpopular with 99...
[11:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New physics, interesting - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:50:52] <exec> 08└─Just search the internet for "zero point energy" and other bullshit that doesn't take more than elementary physics to show to be wrong.
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[12:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:45] <exec> 08└─2016 - we demand some men build us our girl gamer safe space for girls only.
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─Most women don't want a gamer scene without men. They're there because of the men. If the men all left the women would leave.
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Girls (female children) should be married to me - 06Girl Gamers - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─Probably a desperate attempt to keep his urges in check: By constantly posting this objectionable shit all over the internet (it's not just SN, apparently) this tragic individual makes sure he is kept on all the significant law enforcement watchlists, and therefore knows that heavily armed SWAT team...
[12:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 2303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:48] <exec> 08└─There was a sufficient shortage of working men after WW2. What we are seeing is nothing but the natural balance being restored. During WW2 all European men with non-essential skills were sent to war and most were dead. Asia and Africa didn't have any skilled labor class due to its planned obliterati...
[12:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:18] <exec> 08└─I spent several months of 2006 working for a company that handled the paperwork for sub-prime mortgages (their biggest client was Ameriquest Mortgage). I desperately needed the money, so I don't beat myself up too much about it, but even I could tell that that was a system that couldn't be sustained...
[12:48:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:55] <exec> 08└─Devs, Coders, Software Engineers, and every other permutation of the discipline could work transformative change, if they wanted to. I once gamed an algorithm to make sure an impoverished college student won a contest. I didn't know her. I will never meet her. But I made a difference in her life, be...
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[13:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:44] <exec> 08└─You did not mention the biggest change of Fedora 25: Wayland by default in the Workstation spin.
[13:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:46] <exec> 08└─Sort of. I already updated to Fedora 25 at home and on a virtualbox VM. On the home machine, with a GeForce 9600 graphics card and the nouveau driver (the legacy nVidia driver, which worked fine under Fedora 24, does not work under Fedora 25) I tried the "plasma (wayland)" entry in the login screen,...
[13:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use for all those IPv6 Addys - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:00] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about the nearly unlimited IPv6 address space. And I think we are going to see a move to application-specific addressing. Where each program running on your computer has its own ip address (or even multiple addresses). Because really, host-level division of address space doesn't m...
[13:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:11] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking you aren't the brightest bulb around. MSNBC viewership increased enormously over the last year. Up 96% in primetime. http://www.adweek.com [adweek.com]
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. There are two genders determined by XX or XY chromosomes. If you don't fall into either, you're an unfortunate aberration. It doesn't make you a bad person but it most certainly does make you fall into the Abnormal category. The same as being an albino or having an IQ over 150 does. You'r...
[13:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02some physiology... - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:48] <exec> 08└─The human foot never evolved to wear shoes, but before the modern era (1950), the technology did not greatly affect this. Good vs bad shoes, sure, but running as a sport had relatively widespread options. Following the 1970's revolution in plastics and other materials , running shoes could now inclu...
[13:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:some physiology... - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:49] <exec> 08└─oh and a final point - if you run for more than 30 mins, get some athletic compression socks. They greatly reduce the incidence of shin splints and other injuries...
[13:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:30] <exec> 08└─That would have been, might makes right. And The Golden Rule, He who has the gold makes the rules.
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─Really? The world has ALWAYS had trade agreements. Going back thousands of years! The world was explored because of, or to get around, trade agreements. This is why the position of diplomat or emissary is thousands of years old. In fact, trade agreements, or lack thereof, is the cause of many wars t...
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[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly most "music" is now created by producers in the studio for "pop stars" who are "performers" (aka lipsync artists in concert) rather than by the performance of actual musicians. Also schools cutting or eliminating funding for arts programs reduces the number of future musicians.
[14:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02drum machine + autotune = hip-hop - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:58] <exec> 08└─> Seems Fender didn't get the memo: the music of the future is hip-hop and autotuners. Indeed. As music budgets get cut, businesses push hip-hop and rap because then they don't need to hire or manage musicians. All they need is an auto-tuner, a drum machine, and someone willing to speak into the au...
[14:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Team with Rocksmith - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─Bundle a copy of Rocksmith with every guitar, makes learning fun.
[14:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02My faith in the SN community is somewhat reassured - 06Fedora 25 Released - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:10] <exec> 08└─I would have been dollars-to-donuts that the first comment, were it not a troll comment, would mention systemd. But there are two, and they don't!!
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Great Flood - 06Targeting Mysteries of Deep Earth: Water Deeper in Planet Than Scientists Previously Believed - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:20] <exec> 08└─Are the floodgates of heaven god's goatse-hole?
[14:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:3, Touché) 02Whose box? - 06Targeting Mysteries of Deep Earth: Water Deeper in Planet Than Scientists Previously Believed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:22] <exec> 08└─Just wondering if the quoted fellow really knows what Pandora's Box contained. If so, we're in for a heap of trouble.
[14:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Whose box? - 06Targeting Mysteries of Deep Earth: Water Deeper in Planet Than Scientists Previously Believed - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:24] <exec> 08└─The article already indicates this box contains water which will plague geological theories which assumed a significant lack of water. But it also contains hope for fame and an extensive line of research contracts as far as the eye can see.
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use for all those IPv6 Addys - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:34] <exec> 08└─So each application will have its own address rather than its own port? Or will these addresses simply be mapped to a local port? Can I (being the fine, upstanding citizen I am) have direct access to these application addresses on other computers? I see a world of possibilities here ...
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─Doubling from doodley-squat isn't saying much.
[14:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right. That must be why men keep telling me I'm in the wrong restroom when I use the men's room. But like hell I'm going to use the women's room! That's asking for a rape accusation. All you have to do is read what feminism has to offer on the subject and you can see clear as day t...
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:04] <exec> 08└─Aberration? Abnormal? You're too free with those terms. Save them for the clearly bad mutations such as Down Syndrome and albinism. IQ over 150? How could you call high IQ an aberration? XXY chromosomes is abnormal, but we know now that homosexuality is normal, if uncommon. It definitely isn't "unna...
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─I do play online games. Women who get these threats are foul-mouthed sluts to begin with. They shove their tits in everybody's faces and assume that they're some kind of special snowflake who deserves *special* *treatment* just because they bothered to log on while in possession of a vagina. These w...
[14:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:14] <exec> 08└─Parent poster is obviously not a woman so it doesn't really matter what you think. Women are constantly demanding special treatment, and they're surprised when, as per their demands, they get treated differently. It's almost as though they want it to happen so they can show teary-eyed articles like...
[14:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─Well I'm not a woman, and I think they can go to hell.
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─Oh no, gender means everything on the internet now because that's how women want it. They want their special privileges even somewhere gender shouldn't exist. They don't learn programming, and instead they shove their tits in our faces and whine, whine, whine about how they can't learn programming....
[14:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why cash? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:45] <exec> 08└─If you go to the trouble to break into a bank's computer, why bother with cash. Can you not get more zeros with transfer electronic funds. Perhaps the cash is harder to trace? This does underline the old fact that interesting things connected even indirectly to the Internet are prey for predators. S...
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[14:50:21] <exec> 08└─does it? for linux too?
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[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─But I thought people who took arts/music/lit/etc classes deserved to die in a gutter from starvation because they chose a degree with no career parth.
[15:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─Not really, the issue is that we have such a massive gap in wealth that that's a reasonable possibility these days. Artists should be able to work a job to be able to cover their bills without having to pull a massive amount of overtime as is the status quo for minimum wage jobs. Allowing the worker...
[15:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Re:Team with Rocksmith - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:05] <exec> 08└─and to make rocksmith fun(ner), get a splitter (mxr m80 pedal works like a charm for the bass...), and play through your own amp along with the game. that lets you add your own effects MUCH better than the game, and gets rid of the nasty lag if you're hooked up through hdmi.
[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:Team with Rocksmith - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:08] <exec> 08└─I love music, but I can't read it for shit. I don't understand all the modes, can't really sing, and don't know theory worth a damn...but... bless you Rocksmith, you take all that away and let me just groove away on my bass and play songs I love without having to learn some arcane lettering / number...
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─I never cared for musical instruments when I was a child. My parents tried to get me to learn piano but I was too easily distracted and just didn't care. They gave up after a few months of classes. However, as an adult, I picked up the piano again out of my own desire to learn. Admittedly, my life d...
[15:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─It usually doesn't diminish so much as our time and willingness to change. Take the trolls around here who are basically permanently ignorant and incapable of breaking out of their boxes to learn anything new or do any sort of actual thinking. It's both sad and completely avoidable. Just choose to b...
[15:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:14] <exec> 08└─Every quitter hurts.
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─Which swells the used market which shrinks the market for new guitars.
[15:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:18] <exec> 08└─which is great for people with a serious case of GAS (guitar acquisition syndrome) that are willing to buy second-hand. unfortunately, most people over-value their entry-level instruments when they sell. i was lucky enough to get an "daisy rock" bass for my kid for about $25, which sounded (and look...
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I hate "stagnant" - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:21] <exec> 08└─The word "stagnant" when used to describe business or economies is bullshit. We've been so used to ceaseless growth that a $6billion industry sees something wrong because it's not a $7billion industry. It's intellectually lazy.
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:1) 02Re:I hate "stagnant" - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─Bingo! Companies, and by extension, the stock market are used to continuous growth through economies of scale, cheaper fixed costs as property/plant/equipment is paid for, cheaper variable costs as manufacturing uses cheaper materials and/or finds cheaper labor, and also through expansion into new m...
[15:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02And the cycle continues.... - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:25] <exec> 08└─The same happened to brass instruments when Big Band fell out of favor and to orchestral instruments when classical gave way to brass band. Now music is evolving to computer produced and there is no merit to a live instrumental performance. We all recall a time when it was shameful to performing to...
[15:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Netcraft confirms it - Music is dead - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:27] <exec> 08└─I was very excited when I learned that my office was moving to 48th street in Manhattan (in the old "music district"). I had bought my lovely Fender bass just a year or two earlier at Rudy's on the same block as the new office, and was looking forward to sneaking off once in a while to play with the...
[15:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go away. - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:29] <exec> 08└─Unless you sell your soul you'll never be BIG in music. And who starts out to be small? No thanks. I'll keep my soul. And you can sell your guitars to autotune masters.
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02used to here as well - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:32] <exec> 08└─I still have my guitar in my room, but I never play it anymore. I've forgotten pretty much everything, which isn't to say I was ever any good anyway. I bought the thing used and on sale pretty cheap, and it's a decent instrument as far as my untrained eyes and tonedeaf ears can tell. It's a Schecter...
[15:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Does Fender really matter? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:34] <exec> 08└─OK, this is sad for Fender. But is it sad for guitar players? Not that bad, I would argue. No doubt Leo Fender was a pioneer, but the company that bears his name today is just another big business. They sell a name, they sell advertising, for the most part they buy their instruments cheap from overs...
[15:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Instruments - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 2494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─When I was a child, I really wanted to learn how to play an instrument. My mother gave lessons on piano and violin early on life but I never liked playing them much so she eventually gave up. In the third grade, they were accepting signups for music lessons at school so I came home and asked her if...
[15:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:46] <exec> 08└─IIRC, I believe Wayland is disabled in Fedora 25 if you're using a Nvidia GPU and the binary blob Nvidia video card driver. Ahh, yep. We will change GDM to use wayland by default for GNOME. The code will automatically fall back to Xorg in cases where wayland is unavailable (like nvidia).
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[15:45:49] <exec> 08└─Modular? So you mean I can just swap the systemd module out on Fedora 25?
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use for all those IPv6 Addys - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─> So each application will have its own address rather than its own port? Applications have never been limited to single ports. FTP typically uses 2 ports. Web servers run http on port 80 and https on port 443. > Can I (being the fine, upstanding citizen I am) have direct access to these application...
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Conversely - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:09] <exec> 08└─98% of the places I access the internet from have no IPv6 gateway. There is no business incentive in the US to deploy IPv6 from the demand side as it solves a problem businesses here generally do not have. Roll-out needs to be driven from the ISP side. Comcast has IPv6 gateways working but, unfortun...
[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─And you still aren't very bright.
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, nothing has really changed over the last couple decades. We've still got retards like aristarchus running around pretending like they're more intelligent than a lump of clay and failing to make a compelling case. The reality here is that calling them rape threats is rather dising...
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get the misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:11] <exec> 08└─Their hell is comming. That wall at ~30 is going to hit this generation hard. Bet money the suicide rate spikes big for women in the next decade.
[15:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02surge protectors - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:21] <exec> 08└─not too long ago, had to advise a wells fargo vp they should put surge protectors on their ATM. it kept getting damaged in power surges. under the hood they're just WinXP/Win7 white box computers running kiosk software with some usb attachments.
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[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Troll) 02Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:55] <exec> 08└─Whining about some water. Hypothermia. Maybe they should have planned for warmer weather to stage a protest? Rubber bullets. I've never handled a rubber bullet, I want to laught at the idea of being shot with one. But, rubber can be pretty dense and heavy - maybe it feels like you've been shot with...
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the girl whose arm was blown up with a flashbang grenade. http://thefreethoughtproject.com [thefreethoughtproject.com]
[16:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─Not even sure those injuries are by accident: http://www.thedailybeast.com [thedailybeast.com] “He shot me with a rubber bullet right in the belly button, and when I showed him that he h...
[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─That is informative. I don't think cops anywhere should have those damned grenades. Fokking idiots - just because there aren't framgments thrown from the grenade, it isn't considered a lethal weapon? Worse - it's an indiscriminate lethal weapon. Like a shotgun, it's an area weapon, but it's even les...
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:03] <exec> 08└─"Water protectors are done with the military-style barricades. We are done with the floodlights and the armored military trucks. We are are done with it!" declared organizer, Dallas Goldtooth in a mid-evening
[16:45:04] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 876 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:05] <exec> 08└─If you ever wanted a cause to fight Big Government, here it is. The government wants to steal your land to run an oil pipeline under it. The government wants to run this pipeline under and through your water sources and supplies. The government will back this up with military force. And the worst pa...
[16:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:08] <exec> 08└─"The government wants to steal your land"... It's not technically your land, It's the governments land and they can do anything they want with it. Your deed states the facts somewhere in the fine print. You also don't have ownership under the ground or the airspace above. The only way to truly own p...
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the protestors should be better armed. Local LEOs and Feds are not going to risk their necks, and create a national incident, by going after the well-armed. That's why the Federal wilfelife preserve occupation went on as long as it did. Bottom line, if the protestors could defend themsel...
[16:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:23] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how many non sequiturs you crammed into that post. We could have more music, if only we didn't have wealth inequality, rich stealing from poor, guaranteed minimum wage, prison rehabilitation, wars, and throwing money around for your flavor of political goals. You then turn around and...
[16:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:24] <exec> 08└─Pay for your own damn kid's education.
[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:32] <exec> 08└─Not exactly sure why, but I can sleep a lot better after practicing my digital piano for an hour.
[16:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:37] <exec> 08└─A guy with a serious guitar hobby, like a golfer or a bicyclist, tends to buy thousands of dollars of equipment of their lifetime. A quitter will take that $150 guitar and sell it, then turn to video games.
[16:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:I hate "stagnant" - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:41] <exec> 08└─"I imagine the entire NYSE as sort of an economic version of the Roman Empire." I see it as Las Vegas east rolling the dice with people's pension money on the line.
[16:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does Fender really matter? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:49] <exec> 08└─EVERY young guitarist is motivated by some small part by the promise of groupies. Either they get a taste or they push onward by a love of music. This could easily be the story Gibson, or Schecter , or Peavey; but the fact of the matter is once you graduate from your Squire II, musical instruments a...
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Instruments - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─When I was much younger, Yamaha had come out with thin shelled mahogany drums, and the sound was enough to make me jizz. "Mom, I wanna play drums." "Oh, I don't think so." "Mooommmm, I wanna play drums." We visited a music store, and the demonstration guy stood in the middle of the bass drum without...
[16:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Other hobbies - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:54] <exec> 08└─There are a lot more options these days for how to spend your free time. 50 years ago, if you wanted a hobby, you were limited by what the local shops stocked, by the awareness of hobbies out there and, if you were inclined to participate with other people, how many people in your local community mi...
[16:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cry me a river. A big one. Like the Mississippi. - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─Full disclosure: I'm a composer/performer. I play gigs for money. I sell albums. And as it happens, I am a pretty well-trained guitarist. I don't actually perform using the guitar; I've moved over to synthesis (I also had training on piano) but I live on both sides of this discussion. Here follows m...
[16:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:06] <exec> 08└─The default environment is Gnome 3.22 with the Wayland display server.
[16:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Great Flood - 06Targeting Mysteries of Deep Earth: Water Deeper in Planet Than Scientists Previously Believed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─Hahahaha.... hohoho... oh wow... No, there is not.
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Conversely - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─That does still seem to be the most practical thing to do. Depending on where you connect, maybe you get IPv6, maybe you don't. Charter's 6RD gateway has been pretty good. It's not native v6, but it works. The net in the house is v6, but the roommate and I are geeks anyhow. NAT+uPNP effectively solv...
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because liberals like real liberal media as much as neocons like Fox. It's probably for the best that the fake "liberal media" the right likes to complain about (really just corporate tools that ignore prominent issues from both sides) are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Too bad real journal...
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─Why do you put yourself through this kind of horror? You cannot possibly be happier... The world is very easy to hate, and I think feeling that hatred gets your rocks off.
[16:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─You need to look up the definitions of those words you're so unwilling to accept. They are absolutely accurate, and not pejorative unless you're trying to speak falsehood into truth.
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─Damn ivory-tower assholes and their insistence that words have set meanings /s
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, sex and gender are very complex once you get away from the whole "boys or girls!" false dualism.
[16:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. Male=XY, Female=XX. It is permissible to omit the chromosome configuration in such instances. This is not the subject of opinion but a fact about the common conventions in biological science. It works just like omitting the + sign in front of positive numbers in math. thers are born w...
[16:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] 02Maybe her reality cheque bounced - 06Girl Gamers - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:46] <exec> 08└─She may be the best female gamer around, but if the awards are for the top 100 gamers, and she is ranked 150, why does she deserve recognition for not cutting the mustard? Or is this another example of equal rights = special rights?
[16:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score:1) 02Academic? - 06'Minimal' Shoes May Reduce Running Injuries - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:34] <exec> 08└─The article may be of academic interest to Soylentils.
[16:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:48] <exec> 08└─ლ) The SN headline even says Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash not Hackers Program Bank an ATM to Spew Cash.
[16:49:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:12] <exec> 08└─You two are such a cute couple!
[16:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:14] <exec> 08└─SN is turning into a meatgrinder of namecalling these days. Really wish that would stop.
[16:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:21] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the existence of insurance; it's the fraud (accidental or intentional) of those selling it.
[16:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:48] <exec> 08└─The world would be a much better place if every use case really had a standard general-purpose language that worked efficiently, prevented stupid designs instead of encouraging them, and was open and free across all platforms. Unfortunately everyone smart enough to build such a language has either s...
[16:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:06] <exec> 08└─Good point. I would further mention ethical vs. moral. [grammarist.com] I may be wrong, but it seems like saying something is unethical is less judgmental than saying it's immoral? Morality is underlying reasons like religion, vs. ethics which can be more generally agreed on by people with different...
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[17:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I'm confused about what I should think about this - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:02] <exec> 08└─For years I have been regularly instructed by The Narrative that secession movements are always and forever dog whistles for neo-confederate racists. States Rights is also a code word for racists wanting to bring out the chains. What are we supposed to think about this? Somehow I doubt we will get a...
[17:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:03] <exec> 08└─Better be ready to fight, Californians. Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the federal government isn't just going to let you leave. You are captive, and you must pay for your freedom with blood. They'll let you flout some of the federal laws, sure -- but they're pretty insistent on getting your tax...
[17:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes! Calexit! - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─They not only COULD go it alone, they SHOULD go it alone. Please. Seriously, guys, could you speed up the timeline? Maybe have a few extraordinary plenary sessions of your supreme council, or whatever it takes? I mean, I'll be sad to see you go ... ... no, wait, I won't. Your politics are toxic, you...
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good luck - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─They can't even manage water and electricity, yet they're going to afford to leave?
[17:45:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the girl whose arm was blown up with a flashbang grenade. http://thefreethoughtproject.com [thefreethoughtproject.com]
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:22] <exec> 08└─Then walk back your first post, please. You seem to be one of the few alt-right types on here who has any semblance of humanity left, and given what just happened here it's more important that ever that you show it. Don't get yourself lumped in with Uzzard and our resident cuck-sucker J-Mo, okay?
[17:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't know flashbangs could cause that much damage. I remember the case where a flashbang shot through a window and into a crib killed a baby but I figured that it died from internal injuries.
[17:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell it's equivalent to "had enough of it" or "had it up to here with this shit."
[17:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─They're the "water protectors"! Water Protector powers ACTIVATE! I wonder what the next level of self-anointed titling is going to be?
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah and it's not their polluted water that they aren't going to be able to drink safely. The Gov is answerable to the people. Of course these bunch are a minority but if enough people kick up a fuss then the Gov should listen whether from "airy fairy niceness" or from the harsh reality that the mor...
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not that informed on the issue but I thought the area in dispute was on a Native American reservation, which is supposed to be sovereign territory. Not that they haven't been screwed on just about every treaty ever, but aren't we supposed to be a little more enlightened now?
[17:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:39] <exec> 08└─What horrible advice! A circle of escalating violence is not a solution. Instead, as long as you have media attention, you should look forward to them exercising disparate force upon the protesters, it gains public support for the issue. "First they ignore you; then they abuse you; then they crack d...
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─Sometimes that works, sometimes it does not. The point is, you do not want to the be the one who "took one for the team" when that kind of resistance does not work. It's about being able to protect yourself; you cannot protect yourself from inside a jail cell or under a boot.
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 2614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─You pussies seem to be a bit confused on the whole issue of 'civil disobedience' here. The whole point is that you are so convinced that you are right that you are willing to break the law, accept the consequences and hope the public see this moral conviction and eventually come to agree with you. 1...
[17:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─Jack['s] Username isn't entirely wrong though. Two wrongs might not make a right, but as I discovered in seventh grade when I grew a spine and started hitting back (yes, some girls physically bully, we're not all about just rumors and gossip), sometimes a second wrong can prevent a third, fourth, fi...
[17:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:48] <exec> 08└─Cheers on being mostly right for a change. The only bit you got wrong is it's never wrong to defend yourself.
[17:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, shit, if YOU'RE saying I'm right I must be wrong...ugh.
[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─And get charged for armed rebellion ... at best, or get sniped down with full-metal-jacket bullets, most likely. You don't fight a prevailing force head on, never. Don't ever respond with violence against their enforcers, even though they are provoking you to with their bestiality, because if they s...
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─> Think of a strategy to sabotage their operation along the long stretching route of the pipeline, where no police force or hired guards can always control every point, So these protesters who don't want the oil pipeline because they are worried it will poison their land should sabotage the oil pipe...
[17:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─Truth. I say this as a vet myself: if someone looks like they even might be about to use deadly force on you, use it first on them. You as a civilian cannot be legally or otherwise expected to be able to tell if grenades are lethal or bullets are rubber.
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:59] <exec> 08└─Seems like that strategy hasn't worked out too well for people subjected to say, SWAT raids on the wrong house. Also these days it's likely to get you labelled a terrorist, making you politically toxic to almost all politicians, and potentially reducing your legal rights in the bargain. There was th...
[17:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─Artists should be able to work a job to be able to cover their bills without having to pull a massive amount of overtime...
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─Yup. I knew when I was 17 that I was no John Entwhistle or Jack Cassidy, but I still play my old Gibson EB-3 and other basses in impromptu settings. Over the years I added a Fender, a Rick, and god only knows how many amps, mixers, and pedal gadgets.
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go away. - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─*you'll keep having no soul
[17:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does Fender really matter? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:38] <exec> 08└─"So it goes." Tralfamadorian?
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Steel strings - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:45] <exec> 08└─Guitar hacker (the good kind) here. Most guitar strings are either steel or nylon. Although there are a few electric guitars with piezo contact pickups, most electric guitar pickups are electro-magnetic and rely on the magnetic property of steel to induce electric current in the pickups. Interesting...
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:My faith in the SN community is somewhat reassu - 06Fedora 25 Released - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll bite: for server scenarios systemd sucks. It's really not bad for home use though. I run Arch (because seriously as much as I love Gentoo, SCREW compiling on mobile Core 2 Duo...) and it's never given me trouble. Servers I run tend to be sysvinit-based or *BSD these days though.
[17:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My faith in the SN community is somewhat reassu - 06Fedora 25 Released - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to bite on here. It's just that EVERY story about linux or BSD distribution almost always has a systemd comment right off the bat. It is just reassuring to see it not happen so quickly. Must be because people went out of town early this week.
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02shame - 06Fedora 25 Released - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─After years of happily using RH/FC/Fedora, I'm grudgingly moving to Ubuntu. Fedora 24 introduced something in 4.7/4.8 kernels that makes my desktop (not laptop) colors all washed out on intel graphics. I had to stop updating kernels because there's no apparent fix, and bug reports are basically igno...
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The Great Flood - 06Targeting Mysteries of Deep Earth: Water Deeper in Planet Than Scientists Previously Believed - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:12] <exec> 08└─Does the paper say it comes to the surface? I would guess this stuff rarely or never does, and has more to do with the continued existence of plate tectonics and deep-mantle flow than anything on the surface. Incidentally this may have implications in the search for ET life; Venus and Mars may be de...
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conversely - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─I really don't want my entire LAN visible to the world. I can't see how sensible people would want that security-wise.
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IPv6 is to IPv4 - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─As XML is to HTML. The work of a committee that got a head of steam and ran off the course.
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:IPv6 is to IPv4 - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─Had v6 just been v4 with four times the address bits, the adoption rate would have been 100%, 10 years ago. Turns out that all those annoying v4 things that v6 tries to address, are not so important after all.
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Gender isn't assigned or decided. If you have no Y chromosome, you're female. A very small number of people have an extra X or Y chromosome, I'm not sure about them. But anyone with an X and a Y is male, anyone with two Xes is female. If you have an X and a Y and think you're female, that doesn't ma...
[17:48:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 725 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:00] <exec> 08└─It's actually more complex than that, if you look at the science. There are 14 markers for biological sex, and XY/XX chromosones are but one. Some kids are born with other chromosonal types (XXY and such), and others are born with intermediate genitalia that are not clearly either male or female. So...
[17:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─It's not ivory, it's made from the bones of my enemies. Mostly catfish but the odd crappie and bass too.
[17:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:10] <exec> 08└─Ant trait affecting fewer than 2% of the population is an aberration. Yes, geniuses are freaks (I'm on the cusp and I'm certainly not normal).
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─Some kids are born with other chromosonal types (XXY and such), and others are born with intermediate genitalia that are not clearly either male or female. And it's an incredibly tiny number of people. It's akin to the guy in South America who has twelve fingers; nature fucked up. As to chimerism, t...
[17:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nrudaz [6417] (Score:1) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─The best a woman has accomplished so far, really ? How about this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:48:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03citizenr [2737] 02rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 675 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─>Steph has even received online rape threats in the past So did I(I'm male), and every other FPS player in existence. Welcome to the internet. It got so bad Wargaming removed global chat from World of Tanks :) >Steph Harvey is one of the most successful gamers in the world no, most successful woman...
[17:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─Kurenai, with every one of these unhinged posts you make me less and less likely to support you, you know that? I'm one of the "good ones," okay? An egalitarian feminist, not one of the nutty androphobic TERFs you've been abused by. Quit tarring us all with that brush. Given what just happened in th...
[17:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thus it begins . . . - 06Girl Gamers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:39] <exec> 08└─Okay you know what, Kurenai? Fuck you. You're on your own. Good luck all alone in Trump's America (TM), you and your big fat mouth. Idiot.
[17:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lesson - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:45] <exec> 08└─* a bank ATM
[17:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:09] <exec> 08└─Eh, the fights get nasty sometimes. He's really annoyed I have a bigger dick than he does, especially since it's a clitoris. I keep trying to tell him that technically his is too, but he just gets all sulky about it and pouts all day...
[17:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:12] <exec> 08└─I find it sometimes entertaining, although not enough to join in :-) My impression is that most people are mainly rude to those already known to be rude as well. Sure, some hotheads will attack anyone, but ... you know... stick and stones...
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:14] <exec> 08└─They most definitely do not...and neither do their intended targets :D
[17:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:28] <exec> 08└─It depends on what you mean by "close". Politicians have this knack of using words that imply something, like "ending the practice of due process free detention" to make people feel warm and fuzzy, while meaning something totally different, like "closing down Gitmo and moving the PRACTICE of due pro...
[17:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:49] <exec> 08└─I remember that protectionist crap from the 70s. didnt. help. one. fucking. bit. But please, continue to spout 'buy 'murkin!'.
[17:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:51] <exec> 08└─"didnt. help. one. fucking. bit." Because Suzy Homemaker, and Joe Sixpack were to damned stupid to understand. Dollars shipped outside of the local economy never come back. Dollars spent within the local economy circulate, and circulate, and circulate, round and round they go. But, trot on down to W...
[17:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:grasping at straws - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:03] <exec> 08└─Wall Street loves deregulation, toothless EPA, compliant FCC, defunded SEC, understaffed CFPB, merger-friendly DoJ...
[17:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:52] <exec> 08└─Efficient and safe but not flexible - overly-narrow stuff? having a hard time coming up with an example
[17:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New physics, interesting - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:59] <exec> 08└─Seriously, dude, you don't know how science works, do you? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Which means repeatable, correctly done experiments.
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[18:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Let the racists eat their own dogfood - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─For years I have been regularly instructed by The Narrative that secession movements are always and forever dog whistles for neo-confederate racists. States Rights is also a code word for racists wanting to bring out the chains. What are we supposed to think about this? Somehow I doubt we will get a...
[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt we will get an honest admission that it is only OK when city people do it.
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─Well, it is possible that after the last election liberals have finally seen the wisdom of a limited federal government, and if not that, secession is the only other option. Why are you laughing?
[18:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─They overwhelmingly were exactly that and this one is misguided, for pretty much the same reason the racists are always wrong: not liking an election result isn't a reason to secede, regardless(Except maybe Scotland and brexit where EU membership was used as a primary justification for staying the f...
[18:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─Trump might make a war out of it but could you imagine a Democrat having to make that call? Either way their party would loose California's EC votes for the foreseeable future.
[18:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─First they came for the Indians, and I fought them, because I am an Indian. I lost. First they came for the Indians, and I applauded them because I wanted the Indians' land. Then they came for my slaves, and I---wait, what the fuck? I need those! But I lost. Then they came for southerners' slaves, a...
[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:17] <exec> 08└─I'll head out west with my guns if they really try to make a go of it. Be totally worth it to be shed of them.
[18:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:19] <exec> 08└─So you're willing to fight FOR California to it can secede?
[18:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─There are several key ports there in California, including naval bases. There are also several important military bases. The Federal government is not going to be so keen to let them go. Secession plans will have to include how to deal with them, but getting rid of them is most unlikely among the fe...
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─Nothing new there. Perhaps your government schooling didn't include Fort Sumpter and the role it played in the previous round of festivities.
[18:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your government schooling didn't include Fort Sumpter and the role it played in the previous round of festivities. Reply to This
[18:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─Easy answer, and one I could actually see The Donald implementing: In the lead-up to the referendum, move all mobile assets out of California. Offshore, to other states, whatever. Requisition rail access if necessary; just get it moving. All personnel who would be willing to switch to California may...
[18:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes! Calexit! - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─So Breitbart is the start of Humanis and Trump is actually an ancient dragon? I could see that.
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good luck - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─I was always amused that Colorado and California had the same voter referendum on taxes, and while Colorado managed a high degree of fiscal restraint, California... And then the Californians moved to Colorado. Fuck me.
[18:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good luck - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─There has been a growing number of Cali refugees for years in Texas, too.
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh please - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─Please leave, and you can get your water from Mexico instead of the surrounding states so that what comes out the other end of you will match what's been coming out of your mouths for a long time.
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''alt-right'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─one of the few alt-right types on here who has any semblance of humanity left Interesting choice of term. From 1 day ago: ThinkProgress will no longer describe racists as "alt-right" [thinkprogress.org] You can learn everything you need to know about the "alt-right" by looking at the man who popula...
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:''alt-right'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:53] <exec> 08└─But if I had called him a neo-Nazi I would have been rude and uncivil and hurt his precious feelings ;(
[18:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:03] <exec> 08└─I thought the area in dispute was on a Native American reservation, which is supposed to be sovereign territory. Not that they haven't been screwed on just about every treaty ever, but aren't we supposed to be a little more enlightened now?
[18:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─This situation is different, because this is a Native nation's land, so they have substantial rights that an ordinary private citizen or organization wouldn't have. Of course, what often happened when Natives were given rights to land is that the US government takes it away whenever it's convenient....
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─Dang! You almost made me agree with you... So I have to nitpick: > The claim of a risk doesn't stand up to scrutiny when we consider the 2.4 million miles of existing energy pipeline already in the ground with far fewer > incidents per unit of energy / mile transported when compared to any other alt...
[18:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─Awww, and you were just starting to act civil and friendly...damn, I knew that wasn't gonna last :(
[18:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:22] <exec> 08└─The point is to increase the marginal cost of the government suppressing a protest. Right now, an unarmed protest can be put down with a fractional ratio of government personnel and resources to protestors. By protestors being armed, the ratio moves in the direction of 1:1. The government can only a...
[18:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:37] <exec> 08└─Real artists happen to be people. Let's rephrase. > People should be able to work a job to be able to cover their bills without having to pull a massive amount of overtime... Is asking for a living wage really feeling entitled?
[18:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 2176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─Well said. [gets on soapbox] There are several factors in being able to play, and technical ability is only one. (It can be the one that takes the most practice, but it's probably not really the most important.) I reckon that the most important tools that any musician has are his or her ears. No...
[18:46:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02I hate "stagnant" - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─The word "stagnant" when used to describe business or economies is bullshit. We've been so used to ceaseless growth that a $6billion industry sees something wrong because it's not a $7billion industry. It's intellectually lazy.
[18:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:And the cycle continues.... - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:59] <exec> 08└─I picked up an electric guitar earlier this year and have been making headway with it, though I haven't played in a couple weeks because I'm in the middle of a move. Played some on an accoustic back in college and brass instruments before that. I'm not great yet, but my biggest problem is finding pe...
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Two Factors - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─I think there are two factors significant to Fender's issues: 1.) Reduced attention span in young people gets in the way of practicing With all the sensory overload, a lot of youth simply don't have the mental endurance anymore to practice any given song. Combined with the ubiquity of EDM, they just...
[18:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, it did. The default environment is Gnome 3.22 with the Wayland display server.
[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:10] <exec> 08└─Too bad real journalism is never coming back.
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[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─> A Phone that Charges in Seconds How much current does that imply? Can I use the Telsa's plug or do we need yet another kind of socket? (admittedly, enough "seconds" is hours)
[19:45:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02I'm confused about what I should think about this - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:14] <exec> 08└─For years I have been regularly instructed by The Narrative that secession movements are always and forever dog whistles for neo-confederate racists. States Rights is also a code word for racists wanting to bring out the chains. What are we supposed to think about this? Somehow I doubt we will get a...
[19:45:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─Better be ready to fight, Californians. Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the federal government isn't just going to let you leave. You are captive, and you must pay for your freedom with blood. They'll let you flout some of the federal laws, sure -- but they're pretty insistent on getting your tax...
[19:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─Guess what happened.
[19:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:27] <exec> 08└─For years I have held the position that any secession movement that didn't have a plan to have fully weaponized WMD sufficient to implement MAD on day one was on a suicide mission.
[19:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:29] <exec> 08└─[...] LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 (Regulus cruise missile; 1955; joint with Los Alamos), W38 (Atlas/Titan ICBM; 1959), B41 (B52 bomb; 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), W48 (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket; 1959), W56 (Minuteman ICB...
[19:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:34] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to send a crack team of geologist to the San Andres fault with the mission to speed up the secession and plunge California into the Pacific.
[19:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:39] <exec> 08└─Of course the war was going to happen anyway - de Tocqueville predicted it several years before hand. The basis of his prediction? Few northern slave holders were freeing their slaves as abolition movements moved through the Northern States. Instead, they were selling them to the South. Finally, the...
[19:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:42] <exec> 08└─The USA already has a shit ton of military bases in other countries. Why would this be different?
[19:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:44] <exec> 08└─Heck they even have a base in an "enemy" country like Cuba.
[19:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:47] <exec> 08└─They also own huge tracks of cali. Like 60% of it. Those are the parts where water and power are coming from.
[19:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 3182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:49] <exec> 08└─History lesson: South Carolina, among other southern states, seceded and the Union did nothing.Within a week, the Governor of South Carolina demanded the US surrender Fort Sumter, but of course they declined.The Confederates controlled both water and land routes to the fort, having the ability to fo...
[19:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─> an underlying problem was that both sides were a little too sure they could easily win, and thus a little too unwilling to settle for compromise/stalemate. That's how the best world wars always get started. Note that with almost 40 million people, CA is getting a bit too big for a US military oper...
[19:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes! Calexit! - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─Hello there massive increase in the federal budget deficit. I'm sure glad you came to help us be rid of the most revenue positive state(of which there are quite few) in the union to satisfy the vague contempt of an anonymous internet poster, who thinks his fantasy-based politics aren't respected eno...
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:good luck - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─These are the Californians we WANT to leave the state. You have to be insane to actually want to live in Texas. Horrible weather, worse political climate, lots of bad and corrupt bubba sheriffs to hassle you. Please, stay away from California. We don't want you back when Texas implodes.
[19:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─All the conservative tools are coming out of the woodwork, I guess I'm grateful that Trump won because it seems to give so many people this weird idea that their shitty viewpoints will suddenly be tolerated by the rest of the world... Please please please help us secede, Californians are tired of su...
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─It's telling that with even how powerful you are, you are unable to free yourselves.
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─No one said anything about powerful, just financial. Its telling that your first thought is about power and implied violence.... Economic progress has always followed the centers of culture, and when humans come together in cultural centers you get rapid progress. Humans quickly learn that there are...
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─Well then, allow me to respond in kind- Nothing in my statement implies or even references violence. In fact, I was tempted to reference that California's economy is larger than several independent nations. So what does that tell me about you? I've actually lived in California. While not quite plumb...
[19:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─My friend, we're all in for you to leave. Hell, if you need to compromise something, we can accept NorCal and fold it into Eastern Oregon or something. We'll be flexible. No reason to be mean-spirited - we can make this work! It'll be the most amicable of divorces. However, your last two points are...
[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:15] <exec> 08└─The Democrats are just a political party and have shifted into authoritarian type policies. I'm talking about cultural changes, and overwhelmingly millenials are pro freedoms for everyone and are leaving their religious communities in droves. Partisan politics is NOT what I'm talking about. Californ...
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─Secession is a bad idea. The feds are pretty bad, but that doesn't mean that secession is good. But as they're proposing to do this in the legal way, it won't happen anyway, so for this to come up right now is just a vote of no confidence in the elected government (which I agree with).
[19:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─"I guess I'm grateful that Trump won because it seems to give so many people this weird idea that their shitty viewpoints will suddenly be tolerated by the rest of the world..." I think you've missed the real meaning of the election: pendulums swing back. The progressive viewpoints have driven socie...
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All Together Now - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─"I am governor Jerry Brown, my aura smiles and never frowns"...
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Again? - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─Didn't they have a war about this once?
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Secession is a good thing - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:26] <exec> 08└─Personally, I have long thought that secession should be a fundamental right. More, it should be encouraged. Governments are like companies: big is usually bad, smaller is usually better. Beyond a certain size, the shareholders (company) / citizens (country) no longer have any real control over how...
[19:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Stay, for now - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:28] <exec> 08└─As a Californian, I see no particular reason to leave. However, it the auto companies get their way and CARB is forced to follow national standards my mind could be changed.
[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As a Californian... - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─I say round these people up and force them out of California. These idiots don't speak for Californians, they are the Silicon Valley shills that think their shit don't stink. And, I voted Trump.
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the border - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Between New California and Old USA? Shouldn't there be some sort of security, so we don't have massive influxes of immigrants, drug dealers and rapists from one side to the other?
[19:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The baby did not die. - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:49] <exec> 08└─The baby did not die. He was maimed and the cops squirmed out of responsibility. http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] The one person who was charged, the deputy who lied to the judge in order to get the warrant, was found not guilty http://...
[19:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:53] <exec> 08└─..... They are literally protecting their water rights, what do you call yourself? Shillers for Profitz? The problem with a blind "rule of law" is that money can buy laws and people can then be "legally" oppressed. But hey, the US has been brainwashed into blindly following authority and even edgy l...
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''sovereign territory'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was signed by USA.gov and defines what can be done with the land. It has not been superseded by a subsequent treaty. This attempted usage violates the treaty. Bulldozers on their burial grounds would need to be approved by the Lakota. That approval has NOT been given....
[19:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The alternative - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:04] <exec> 08└─> This is the government: rich people with lawyers who never had to get elected to anything. And they're coming for you. And the alternative is what? Rich people with private militaries stealing your land. And if you think you can out gun them, think again. This response, that's them being restraine...
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''What horrible advice!'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed. This guy has crunched the numbers. [google.com] He says that if you're going to do a protest, your chances are 1 in 2 that you will succeed if you do it peacefully. Get violent and your chances go down to 1 in 4. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah but see he wasn't as elite as The Uzzard. He must, somehow, have deserved that for being some kind of beta leftie pinko cuck. We ALL know TMB here would come out on top of any confrontation like that completely unscathed, with fireworks and spectral American flags exploding behind him as a flig...
[19:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Netcraft confirms it - Music is dead - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─Guitar Center in the 'burbs probably had a hand in driving many mom and pop music stores out of business. Meanwhile, the market for acoustic pianos keeps declining, although maybe well-to-do Chinese immigrants shopping for their kids could prop it up for awhile.
[19:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:Wayland - 06Fedora 25 Released - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:19] <exec> 08└─Like I said, one system used the nouveau driver and one the virtualbox driver. Considering that the majority of users have an nVidia, AMD, Intel, or VirtualBox display, that the nVidia driver usually does not work out of the box with new releases of Fedora, and that the virtualbox X11 extensions oft...
[19:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:IPv6 is to IPv4 - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:53] <exec> 08└─Had v6 just been v4 with four times the address bits, the adoption rate would have been 100%, 10 years ago.
[19:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 2460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─I hold no illusions that journalism was ever neutral, objective, or purely fact-based. They try to pretend now that it's possible, because they want us to believe that they perspective is the neutral point of view. But I think it's important to reconsider who "they" is. Because not that many people...
[19:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MSNBC viewership nearly doubled in 2016 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:12] <exec> 08└─I personally would stay away from NBC news. They have been caught *many* times altering items to change or wildly exaggerate the POV. No one really cares. However, you never know when the next story will be a fake one from them. Them joining up with buzzfeed makes sense. It fits how they have done n...
[19:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:46] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, nothing has really changed over the last couple decades. We've still got retards like aristarchus running around pretending like they're more intelligent than a lump of clay and failing to make a compelling case. The reality here is that calling them rape threats is rather dising...
[19:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:07] <exec> 08└─It's more specifically that they got threats because of their gender.
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[20:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─The Google Pixel XL apparently has a 3450 mAh battery; a 15 A current could charge a device of that capacity in 3450/15000 hours (13 minutes and 48 seconds). So, to charge a phone in seconds, you'd need a damn high current that nobody will ever have.
[20:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:59] <exec> 08└─It is low voltage, so it's not impossible to generate that much current at home. But those connectors ain't gonna fit no 8mm phone, unless you use the surface of the phone's back and do some pretty impressive power layouts.
[20:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02OK - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:01] <exec> 08└─So how long after it's charged do I have to lob it into enemy trenches?
[20:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:OK - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:03] <exec> 08└─That'll only apply to the Samsung models :D
[20:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─They always scream the biggest advantages of super capacitors have always had: fast charge, high reusability, and they always give great numbers for those. Then they bury the goddamn lead about the actual improvement: energy density. I seriously doubt they've got the energy density anywhere near Li-...
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about crazy person? They SUMMARY mentions that this is the EXACT feature they are working on improving with nano-hoo-dacky-whatsit. Since they have not finished there is no value. The whole point of the article is scientists working on making supercapacitors have super capacity....
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─They are always working on improving supercapacitor energy density... and rarely do they make progress. Same old, same old. A capacitor is not a battery.
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:24] <exec> 08└─You poor soul. You really do have trouble, don't you?
[20:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:33] <exec> 08└─all the way to weapons mounted on missiles. All you need is to plant one in DC somewhere. You don't need missiles - just a car.
[20:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:38] <exec> 08└─Don't you do this - remember Murphy's Law! When "The Big One" hits, everything east of the San Andreas will slide into the Atlantic instead.
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─What solutions were available? The South wasn't going to give up slaveholding without violence. To do it without violence would have required many decades of economic and social transformation, but there was no desire to do it, and not only was there no movement in that direction for the next eighty...
[20:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:46] <exec> 08└─In the 150+ years that have passed since Fort Sumter was relevant, demographics of the army have changed. The soldiers and, especially the officers, are not local. They're mixed from all states. Back then the relevant groups were North and South, with nearly all officers being South. Now, you'd have...
[20:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─IMO, the federal government would be even less willing to appear as the aggressor, but it's hard to say.
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes! Calexit! - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─Massive increase in the ... what crack are you smoking? California's revenue positive situation isn't holy writ, and there's every reason to believe that when their water-related insanity finally comes home to roost (because they're basically on life support from surrounding states) they'll be a fin...
[20:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─Le sigh, backpedaling like a true champion, good job. There are plenty of terrible places in California it is true, and the vast minority of the state is conservative. Just using "ivory towers" shows the type of person you are and the presumptions you make. Have fun with your backwards culture, may...
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'm pro freedom as well. No problems with that. In fact, I think that they should legalise plural marriages both male and female. Better yet, take marriage as a concept right out of the hands of government. Leave it to churches. Let government just track domestic partnerships. Want a sex change...
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─Well, magically we find that we have common ground and that the politicians are the true source of a lot of our gripes. I'm quite on the liberal side of the spectrum and I fully agree with your points except for the fugitives bit. I'm sure some of them are more conservative minded people looking for...
[20:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:22] <exec> 08└─Oooh man you're deluded. The Democrats are neo-liberals that have actually eroded a lot of liberal policies and enacted a ton of authoritarian garbage, the pendulum has been swinging hard towards tyranny, with some key pieces such as abortion, gay marriage, and the push to end the drug war. Those la...
[20:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:24] <exec> 08└─Please read this: political compass [wikipedia.org].
[20:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 3931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─Please please please help us secede, Californians are tired of supporting the bulk of fiscal responsibility for other states while be yelled at for just about everything. To help support the policies that 'the democrats' helped put in place. You would also need to take with you the debt you have he...
[20:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:''sovereign territory'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:53] <exec> 08└─I would love to know exactly who owns the land as it is just some regular private citizen or is it part of the reservation. I have seen stories stating that the pipeline is not on the reservation and others that say it is. If it is on the reservation I say let the tribe set fire to machinery that cr...
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Fight The Feds - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─If it is true that the pipeline is going across the reservation then the tribe has every right to seize all equipment in use on the land if they haven't gotten permission. I'm not sure that is the case having seen stories stating that it is and isn't. to further muddy things there is the river and o...
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You don't get sovereignity over that island either - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─And anywhere you can buy one has strict restrictions on what you can build there, taxes, and usually at most allow a 99 year lease. The only real way to have sovereign land is to have enough manpower willing to die, or pay someone else to die to hold onto it. Pretty sure nobody here has either the s...
[20:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:11] <exec> 08└─remember the four boxes: Soap box : use free speech and Protests to make your message heard and make a change. Ballot box: get laws passed or overturned. Jury box: take your cause to court. Ammo box: when all else fails make sure you can fight back against unjust laws/actions. this kind of response...
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─So then I shouldn't have ended every fight that others have started with me. I've never thrown the first punch, nor initially contacted anyone but being a bigger guy lots of people who are piss drunk want to try and show off. Being only 5' 9" makes me on the shorter side but being ~250lbs and a powe...
[20:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''increase the [...[ cost of [...] suppressing'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:17] <exec> 08└─increase the marginal cost of the government suppressing a protest Are you so young and ill-informed as to not be aware of Waco? The Feds burned down the complex with children in it then concocted a "suicide" story that Lamestream Media swallowed whole. ...and Ruby Ridge? There, a Fed fatally shot a...
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Nothing to See Here'' Headlines Hide Cops' Acts - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─The S/N editor felt compelled to add "balance" to the story by including "coverage" by Lamestream Media (who weren't on the scene). Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR.org) has this to say about that: "Nothing to See Here" Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access [co...
[20:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─Actually in at least one case [foxnews.com] it appears to have worked out fairly well [lacrossetribune.com].
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:39] <exec> 08└─"Is asking for a living wage really feeling entitled?" Well let's break that down. Why do you think you should get a wage? Is it because someone finds your work valuable enough to pay this much for your time? Or is it because you think the world owes you a 'living wage?' If the latter, then you're e...
[20:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:41] <exec> 08└─I don't have kids but my taxes are paying for every kid's education.
[20:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the budget stuff works pretty well, as long as you swap out the tuners and bridge, so it stays in tune, and the pickups so it will sound OK.
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Steel strings - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Does not match my experience. I find the little tiny steel strings are the hurtiest, they slice right through any calluses I build up. I started with electric bass, which obviously has these great big high tension cables, but they work great for building up calluses. And the larger nylo...
[20:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:35] <exec> 08└─Dog, it used to be sooooo easy: 1. Balls and dick: male 2. No balls but a dick: eunich (or Andy Dick) 3. No balls, no dick: female Now, it's all whoa, dude, i'm a female male with male and female body parts and if you go to look at porn on the internet, you have to be careful cause you might be look...
[20:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 2531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:48] <exec> 08└─So because people are disregarding copyright law and swapping illegal copies around, we should... extend copyrights even longer, preventing some old works from falling into the public domain where they could be legally copied, while doing nothing to affect the illegal copying you're ostensibly conce...
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[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:03] <exec> 08└─Actually fast charge is admittedly a huge liability because it implies fast discharge, and not many electronics deal well with fast discharge as in it will melt pretty much anything, metal and silicon, in the path of that kind of current... So you would want to have extra protection to avoid that ki...
[21:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02I had this functionality previously - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:04] <exec> 08└─I used to have three batteries for my phone, so in about 30 seconds I could be fully powered again. Snarkyness aside, this tech does look really cool. High current applications are the domain of super-caps typically, for example a bus stopping generates a lot of energy fast. Full electric vehicles o...
[21:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Pocket Taser - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─...and discharges just as quickly!
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Charge-discharge - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─While this article might result in numerous Note7 jokes, there is a real problem here. A very high charge rate also means a higher discharge rate, and even with fail-safes built in it could have spectacular failure modes. A standard iPhone 7 battery holds about 7.4 watt hours or 26kJ, which is the s...
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─[...] not liking an election result isn't a reason to secede [...]
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─You raise good points. I think this is cool, and I certainly think anyone in California who wants to secede should be permitted to, and looking at the new President, I can't blame them. (Of course, I feel the same way looking at the last several Presidents, too.) Of course, I think anyone in Califor...
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:34] <exec> 08└─I used to be able to articulate a point like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─I took a sword through the chest. [youtube.com]
[21:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─CA has more of the resources for such an effort, but you still have to imagine a bunch of incompetent lefty morons building a nuke and keeping it secret from the NSA all the way to weapons mounted on missiles.
[21:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:52] <exec> 08└─In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race, & while my feelings are...
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently yours didn't either. It is Sumter. And it didn't play any major role in causing the Civil War except that it was there the first shots were fired. That war was going to happen regardless of whether Sumter existed or not.
[21:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:18] <exec> 08└─Pffft, you're a laugh riot. In case I was being a little too obtuse in saying "I've actually lived in California", let me repeat I lived in California. I'm a godless, let-the-queers-do-what-they-want-abortions-for-all hedonist at heart. I left in part to sanctimonious assholes like you. So basically...
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 3200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─"Since we're throwing shit back and forth without any specifics, care to give me some of the highlights of how the pendulum has swung too far?" Sure. Care to post under your own name? First, it's not about authoritarianism at all. Both sides of the coin that are politics in the USA (Democrats and Re...
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─TRIGGERED!
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─No, my proposal was not serious, just a rebuttal to all the people saying "yeah, get rid of California!" It was basically a bit of satire to throw back. You have quite a few of your financial points mixed up, California is one of the economic powerhouses of the US, we subsidize the other states and...
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─Le sigh, backpedaling like a true champion, good job.
[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 3443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─No, my proposal was not serious, just a rebuttal to all the people saying "yeah, get rid of California!" It was basically a bit of satire to throw back. I understand now. It was not clear to me. Many of the Native Americans by and large had a much more egalitarian society where everyone worked toget...
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken, most of the conservatives are telling you go, good luck, godspeed. Of course it's unlikely the feds will let you go peacefully but I wish they would. You could build your silly socialist utopia and be forced to come face to face with what a distopia that actually is, you might even...
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters coming out of the woodwork - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:42] <exec> 08└─"Silly socialist utopia" hmmm, you really don't know much beyond what you hear on Fox news huh? Quick clue for you: we are already in a dystopian socialist nightmare where we pay for the safety nets but the scared conservative types ruin every implementation so they hardly do much real good. The onl...
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02alt-white it is - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─Saw a tweet the other day, Said something like "there is no such thing as the alt-right, if you fuck a goat you aren't an alt-farmer."
[21:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:02] <exec> 08└─Braver and more committed. Mmmm. Maybe. Posted by Anoynymous Coward? Noted . . . .
[21:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:04] <exec> 08└─The police are the enemy! The feds are bad! Except when they're not! How dare people question the police and the feds?!?!
[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─Shillers for Profitz?
[21:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:What does this mean? - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─The problem with a blind "rule of law" is that money can buy laws and people can then be "legally" oppressed.
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the point of the protests'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─money can buy laws Then it's not rule of law by definition. I'm kinda taken aback when we agree on something. Yeah, the word "majority" seems to be missing in this context. ...or would that be "Democracy"? the pipeline is a lawful activity No, it's not. It violates a treaty signed by USA.gov. which...
[21:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:The alternative - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:27] <exec> 08└─Call me crazy, but the alternative I had in mind was not letting people get rich and powerful enough to control the government or hire private militaries.
[21:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:38] <exec> 08└─Beating up a bully only works because you are evenly matched and they've relied on your inaction. Change the balance of power, as in trying to fight back against a gang of ten, and all you'll get is beat down and they will have fun doing it.
[21:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know > Really, really hate people sometimes.
[21:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Nothing to See Here'' Headlines Hide Cops' Ac - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─And you felt the need to inflate the situation by promulgating "water cannon" for "water hose". Spraying water on people in that kind of weather is horrible. So is ratcheting up the rhetoric to gain sympathy and then blame the "lamestream media". Cripes, for a guy who railed on Trump so much, you su...
[21:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''water cannon'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:52] <exec> 08└─The term was used by numerous news outlets. It accuracely describes a high-pressure device used to throw large volumes of water for long distances. Used in freezing temperatures against people who are living rough, it is definitely a weapon with potential for health-altering consequences. The medics...
[21:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:58] <exec> 08└─Nah, they didn't want the PR backlash like they got from shooting up the Ruby Ridge asshats (oh, who were btw white. this shit is OK all the time in non-white neighborhoods every day though).
[21:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:14] <exec> 08└─That would be because someone who needs help should be paying for it. And a country which sees itself as rich and civilized shouldn't be setup in such a way that people can be given wages for their labor which are insufficient to maintain a decent standard of living. Granted, slavery and exploitatio...
[21:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─Sadly most "music" is now created by producers in the studio for "pop stars" who are "performers" (aka lipsync artists in concert) rather than by the performance of actual musicians.
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:drum machine + autotune = hip-hop - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─the music of the future is hip-hop I heard that about disco back in the '70s. Better polish that crystal ball a little better.
[21:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re: Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─Having a good ear will definitely go a long way towards becoming better. One thing I'd advise students of the musical arts is to play with others. As often as you can. You may be very good playing by yourself but that doesn't teach you to feel the rhythm and stay in time. Even playing to recordings...
[21:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Not only teens can learn to play - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think the guitar is going anywhere. They said that about the clarinet in the forties. The only two bands I've heard using that instrument in the last half century is Supertramp and the Beatles.
[21:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, but not as a 6 billion dollar business. - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, but not as a 6 billion dollar business. Same deal with Gibson and Martin, etc. Sort of the same as Budweiser and Miller and company. The mass manufacture instruments are not improving their quality to match their prices anymore. Pretty much every mass-produced guitar you buy today, even the 500...
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Steel strings - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:59] <exec> 08└─It's pretty easy to pick up an acoustic electric guitar and learn a few chords and sing some old pop songs. That won't sell any tickets but your family (in the next room) will at least be satisfied that you've got your hobby. With an electric guitar, you need to be able to play some lead guitar lick...
[21:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02why even have this upgrade ordeal any longer? - 06Fedora 25 Released - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:19] <exec> 08└─Why does Fedora have these upgrade ordeals? I have to download a million packages, and shut down my machine, and let it grind through them for hours. Twice a year. Why can't we just have "Fedora" that pulls the latest packages? Just a continuous, rolling upgrade. They drop support for old versions,...
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This ^^^ - 0698.01% of Sites on Cloudflare Now Use IPv6 - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:44] <exec> 08└─I use NAT nowadays to obscure which and how many computers I have running behind the web facing router. Additionally, as IPv4/6 has gotten more commoditized, targetted by attacks, and generally FUBAR, I have simply shifted my services to darknet web services. The darknets have become the refuge for...
[21:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MTF or FTM? - 06Girl Gamers - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:23] <exec> 08└─Seriously, acting like all transsexuals are one gender (either biological or identity) is showing your own prejudice. I say this as someone without a horse in this race. I'm not, none of my friends are, and I find a lot of the current SJW circle jerking stupid. That said: figuring out which gender t...
[21:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rape threats - 06Girl Gamers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:43] <exec> 08└─The reality here is that calling them rape threats is rather disingenuous. They are in the strictest possible sense, but they're not realistic threats.
[21:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, I would have guessed that these are sad little beta males who have dreams of being alpha. Just sayin'.
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:35] <exec> 08└─'Trade' agreements, maybe. But corporate money making machines? No. Corporations run on risk: enter a new niche? There is a risk attached. Invent (or even 'invent') a new product for making profit on? Risk. Try to make money in a new market? Risk. But the reward could be great! With things like the...
[21:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:50] <exec> 08└─Agree with this: this REALLY needed to die (and so does CETA here in Canada), and i'm glad it finally will. Hillary said she'd kill it, but i think that was one of those public things: i think privately she would have kept it if it killed her (not saying this to start a flame war: i just believe she...
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[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Cushioned armor? - 06Metamaterial Built from Gears - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:53] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing, but they would have to be cost-competitive with garbage pails full of sand.
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Metamaterial? - 06Metamaterial Built from Gears - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─So if I build a pattern of levers and gears out of erector set it's now called a metamaterial? People have been doing this for thousands of years.
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02related Wikipedia article - 06Metamaterial Built from Gears - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_metamaterials [wikipedia.org]
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2, Insightful) 02They lie. - 06Metamaterial Built from Gears - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─"The video will load shortly" No, it won't, thanks.
[22:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─Umm... I believe the TFA is talking about using supercapacitors to power devices like your phone... not batteries. For consumers I suppose "battery" just mean whatever that can store power to be used by their devices to play Pokemon Go that needs to be plugged for refill when it runs low.
[22:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:OK - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:13] <exec> 08└─Modded +1 Insightful because there's nothing more "dual use" than lots of energy in a small package (cue the dirty jokes?) XD
[22:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─Umm RTFA...they do talk about that I believe.. Jung’s team has developed supercapacitors composed of millions of nanometer-thick wires coated with shells of two-dimensional materials. A highly conductive core facilitates fast electron transfer for fast charging and discharging. And uniformly coat...
[22:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charge-discharge - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:25] <exec> 08└─We already have that unfortunately.. its called the Galaxy Note 7
[22:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:42] <exec> 08└─Let them go, let them destroy all their guns, then we can just re-conquer them to be a non-voting protectorate.
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─Never read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975?
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate how entertaining to many non-Californians it would be to have livefeeds of zealous federal troops shock-and-aweing an insurrection of Californian hippies. You could monetize that and make a killing.
[22:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:55] <exec> 08└─LOL!
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Best of luck. - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─"The only other alternative I see is distributing livefeeds of the land so that any invasion is a PR nightmare not worth the territory," How's that working for the Native Americans?
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 1790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:10] <exec> 08└─Oh I dunno about that. Lets start with the reality that slavery was legal and permitted by the Constitution and that they represented a significant portion of the capital in the slaveholding states. So you are an Abolitionist and want to eliminate the practice, but now lets assume you are actually a...
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:12] <exec> 08└─A better example would have been Fort Monroe in Virginia. Fort Monroe remained in Union hands during the entire war.
[22:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Ports and military bases - 06Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds expensive. Let me guess, the Mexicans will pay for it?
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:''alt-right'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─The Atlantic has an article about, and uploaded a video of, Mr. Spencer's speech at that conference. Some attendees gave the straight-arm salutes when Spencer said "Hail Trump!". https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] https://www.you...
[22:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I will say great things about you - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─What a weak non-denunciation. He goes on a tear about hamilton. But "I want to find out why" with the nazis. Its classic Trump, "If you say great things about me, I will say great things about you." [businessinsider.com]
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''straight-arm salutes [...] "Hail Trump!"'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:48] <exec> 08└─Yup. I was hoping that someone who still does video would link to that. I continue to say that the most important thing that could be taught in schools (and community centers and Sunday schools and civic organization and ...) is the History of the 1930s and the rise of Fascism. Now we have our own d...
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Ohh!! Ebil LEO's! - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─[...] there aren't [fragments] thrown from the grenade [...]
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An interesting point about the Baby Bou Bou story - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─The "bad guy" they were after wasn't even in that house. Additionally, the crime of the "bad guy" for whom that paramilitary assault was intended was selling a personal-usage amount of dope to a dude. I have seen no evidence that says the "bad guy" had a history of using weapons. When we discussed t...
[22:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─I'm a Civ player, so it should go more like this: "First they ignore you; then they abuse you; then they crack down on you and then you use nuclear fire!"
[22:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 2613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:01] <exec> 08└─Your analysis, while superficially attractive, is incomplete. You have three classes of people on the receiving side in this analysis, and two on the giving side (really more, but we can keep this fairly simple). On the receiving side you have those who have skills or abilities for which people woul...
[22:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:03] <exec> 08└─Holy cow buddy, something happened to your font, you should really look into that.
[22:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:How come? - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:22] <exec> 08└─A cheap guitar with crappy action is, IMO, the best guitar to start on. If you can get good enough you can sound OK on a piece of shit, you'll sound fantastic on a quality instrument. Prices of guitars have plummeted since I got my first one in 1965, a cheap Japanese electric. At the time, a Strat w...
[22:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02One recent NBC example + ranting :3 - 06NBCUniversal Doubles Investment in News Site Buzzfeed - 2900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:50] <exec> 08└─Just the other day NBC said the Trump admin would not press charges against HRC and so on, essentially they ended up pushing a story saying she would be left alone to "heal" or whatever (*insert clip of healing early-level video game boss here*). It's bullshit and doesn't even matter (what matters �...
[22:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Obama wins the peace prize just by showing up a different color than the rugs: Trump should win just because... his HAIR! I mean..... his HAIR!!! IT IS NICER THAN HILLARY'S! :)
[22:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:15] <exec> 08└─A friend had the 3G Kindle w/keyboard and took it everywhere with him - he's one of those outdoors-y people that walks up mountains for fun. Lasted an age but the keyboard started failing and he persevered until he was in a position to replace it. I bought a Kindle Paperwhite last year when it was o...
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[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─You left out volts. 13m 48s @ 1V @5V it's 1/5th the time. @12V it's 1/12th ...
[23:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solves the thinness debates - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:10] <exec> 08└─Nope. Current is all that matters; it's all that my argument depends on.
[23:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These articles - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:22] <exec> 08└─I'll bury my dick in your ass.
[23:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charge-discharge - 06A Phone that Charges in Seconds? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:27] <exec> 08└─It'll be yuge! Like the Note 7!
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That story is in the Pending Stories queue - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─It's still ~12 hours away. ...and the cops insisted that she blew up her own arm. ...and Lamestream Media printed their obvious lies without batting an eye. Cops and legacy media are doing everything they can to reduce their credibility to zero. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:''the point of the protests'' - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the word "majority" seems to be missing in this context. ...or would that be "Democracy"?
[23:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02have you forgotten the thousands of years of small - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:15] <exec> 08└─> not letting people get rich and powerful And how do you propose to do that without a big government? Or have you forgotten the thousands of years of small government?
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─There's also the issue that the DAPL was originally planned for a route north of Bismarck, but the residents objected due to fears that their water supply might be contaminated, so it was moved. Of course, the residents of Bismarck who were complaining were not Native Americans, so...
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they should take a lesson - 06Water Cannons Used in Sub-Freezing Temperatures at Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I would call that working out well exactly, and to the extent that it did there was a lot of luck involved. If you were offering people the option of getting paid $600,000 to let someone invade their home and shoot 22 bullets at their family, I would hope most sane people would decline,...
[23:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fewer Future Guitarists/Musicians - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:04] <exec> 08└─What you read is not what I wrote. Companies who need help should not be allowed to pay people a wage below a certain level, because what that means is that you and me end up picking up the rest of the tab. Either the company needs the help, and they do spend enough money, or they can't afford the m...
[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Team with Rocksmith - 06Don't Give Up on the Guitar. Fender is Begging You - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─For me, HDMI is fine, but if you're running a digital signal to your audio receiver, stop it and use analog. It's a *huge* difference, on consoles at least.
[23:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Article veers off on a random tangent - 06Girl Gamers - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:15] <exec> 08└─Normal, but not average. Geniuses are normal, just part of the range of possible intelligence, if at one of the extremes. What they are not is average. Height also varies considerably, and the extremes are populated with those afflicted with some condition such as acromegaly or dwarfism. Unlike extr...
[23:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Misogyny - 06Girl Gamers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:49] <exec> 08└─Words have gender. People have sex.
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