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[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Being a parent of 3 - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─These are good and bad. If you worried they give some relief. If you are not worried then they add tension set batteries check ... Key here is to know your child. I remember getting audio monitor for child 1. On two and 3 not monitor. You learn. Yes 1 child everything is sanitized. By 2 you wipe...
[00:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Being a parent of 3 - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:12] <exec> 08└─>But there will be a moment when you WILL walk into the baby's room and poke the kid just to hear it cry.. because it was TOO QUIET. Don't need to make baby cry to see the motion of breathing. But that nap/night was indeed a lot longer than normal, and nobody's gonna prevent you from checking... If...
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─We've probably had a couple hundred articles on SoylentNews with prominent DOIs at this point. I insert them into quoted text too in square brackets if applicable. Almost every science submission I do will have: Article Title (open, DOI: 10.1XXX/stuff) (DX) at the bottom. DOI string is recognized by...
[00:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:28] <exec> 08└─I'm at a point where I recognize journal groups by the four digit number.
[00:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─Here's some recent DOI samples: Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters [soylentnews.org] Giant Wave Observed in Venusian Atmosphere [soylentnews.org] Neonicotinoid Can Cause Brain Damage in Bats; Bumblebee Species Added to Endangered List [soylentnews.org]
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Blink - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─All I know is I try not to blink: those damn weeping angels.....
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Please cite'' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─From GP: Project Veritas "Veritas" is Latin for "truth". We're talking about a slimy bunch whose stock in trade is lies. (This is a grand example of irony, Alanis.) Reactionary Con Artist James O'Keefe Busted for Dirty Tricks Against Trump Protesters [alternet.org] after getting wind of O'Keefe's e...
[00:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1067 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:51] <exec> 08└─According to the news I saw yesterday, the reporters were only reporting, and were rounded up along with over 200 protesters as 'part of the crowd'. There were no riots in the immediate area, or part of the arrested crowd. At one point, one of the reporters started to switch memory cards in her came...
[00:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:54] <exec> 08└─power.
[00:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02choosing the lesser evil is important - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:56] <exec> 08└─If the alternative is that non-patriotic America-hating city folk turn this country into a 3rd-world nation, well you gotta do what you gotta do. Liberals don't seem to get that their policy won't lead to a clone of Iceland, Norway, or Japan. A nation isn't just land or laws. It's culture. Some unif...
[00:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Liberalism] won't lead to a clone of Iceland'' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:58] <exec> 08└─Liberals don't seem to get that their policy won't lead to a clone of Iceland, Norway, or Japan If their policy includes publicly funded political campaigns as a core value, I don't see why not. The problem is Oligarchy. If we get private money out of politics, we could do even better than those Lib...
[00:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''[Liberalism] won't lead to a clone of Iceland - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:00] <exec> 08└─What you are missing is that those countries have fairly uniform culture and even ethnicity. That is huge. It is the primary basis for trust and cooperation. You can't just ape their political system and expect similar results. We have a state that is kind of like those countries. It's Vermont. Verm...
[00:43:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:06] <exec> 08└─Sadly these days, that something could be getting a cop on video. They hate when there's evidence and they don't control it.
[00:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:19] <exec> 08└─I remember when you had to read it in school: now kids graduate without having read it... Cause they can't bloody read!!!
[00:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:40] <exec> 08└─> ...feeding to them for the past 40+ years that republicans are evil incarnate (hint, they are not they are just people too). Late to the party, just wanted to say that Cheney was evil incarnate.
[00:46:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─Anything modern will also be back-doored, so there is that. Not sure if the RPI 3 is "small" enough to avoid that. I decided years ago the way to avoid treacherous hardware was to go big (Servers), or go small (embedded), since the consumer space was thoroughly sabotaged with DRM.
[00:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Football or football? - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─And if we're talking Aussie football [wikipedia.org] it is 5.5 to 7.5 fields. (If you [reader] have never seen aussie football - give it a try, it is like an hybrid between rugby, soccer, relay racing, basket _and_ cricket)
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[01:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:21] <exec> 08└─Tom Wheeler tried to make the settop box thing too complicated. The cable companies are already able to obtain boxes at a good price. The only thing the FCC needed to do was to let the customers buy the boxes already in their houses from the cable company at their current value. If the only choice i...
[01:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what many feared would happen. Trump put somebody in charge of the FCC that would be just as happy to gut it. Specifically, every single part of it that helps the consumer and prevents corporations from bringing and end to the era of Freedom and equality on the Internet. It's kinda p...
[01:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:25] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Hill would have done this too. Big cable has deep pockets. At the end of the day I might not have agreed with him much, but Obama at least tried to not be a complete corporate shill some of the time.
[01:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Being a parent of 3 - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:35] <exec> 08└─Mmmm - not so sure about that. Baby can indeed appear to be entirely motionless. Hell, adults can do the same. Just a few weeks ago, the wife wasn't feeling well, and slept most of the day away. I checked on her a couple times during the day. One of those times, I could see no indication that she wa...
[01:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pediatrician Dr. Christopher P. Bonafide - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess I had better pay attention to him.
[01:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nice topic - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─manual blinking activated
[01:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My own ideas - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:57] <exec> 08└─I would add my own findings to this research: Eyes roll around in their sockets during the blink so that when the eyes open, they have to roll somewhat to position the view at the correct location. This movement of eye finds the changes that have occurred in the scenery. Now, for example, you open y...
[01:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:12] <exec> 08└─> People in the ranks take cues from the people at the top. district of Columbia, London City, Vatican... who is at the top?
[01:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You've reminded me... - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:24] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that Lamestream Media needs to have their broadcasting license, which allows them to use the PUBLIC airways, revoked when they don't serve ALL the people. Y'know, actually being "fair and balanced"; informative, not propagandist. Oh, and there's your racism which I also forgot to...
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:''[Liberalism] won't lead to a clone of Iceland - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─" Lots of Americans want to live with Americans, not 3rd worlders." I remember learning in school about when all the real American's didn't want any "Irish" This isn't a new thing, "real American's" are pretty much everyone who has a couple generations roots, and they have always systematically deni...
[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''[Liberalism] won't lead to a clone of Iceland - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─Europeans are similar enough that the problems don't last. Even the East Asians are not much trouble -- the culture may look alien but it isn't 3rd world. After a bit of initial discomfort, we can merge in people from Europe or East Asia. The 3rd world is another matter entirely, particularly the pa...
[01:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02drink analogy - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:30] <exec> 08└─Picture the people of the USA as water in a glass. Add a drop of pee, and it still tastes fine. Keep adding though, and soon enough you have a drink that isn't water.
[01:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 2122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The press has no power or right above anyone else, and today regular folks *who are there* with a cell phone camera are often primary news sources. Being there with a camera may mean you record something that the mainstream media will buy, just like they would from any stringer. Trying to f...
[01:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The press has no[...]right above anyone else'' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:39] <exec> 08└─The press has no power or right above anyone else ...unless you notice that that is the ONLY profession mentioned in the Constitution. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:trump trump trump. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─Submit more non-trump stories. Then the editors have more to work with.
[01:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:00] <exec> 08└─That's it. This IS a partisan article. The author is attempting to equate a private server, and circumventing a multitude of laws, with having a private account on a (presumably) secure party server. The legitimate concern voiced is that the party server might be used to avoid government oversight....
[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─So, wait a second. Being elected to government office means that everyone must surrender access to all non-government electronic services? Close out g-mail, yahoo, microsoft offerings? Close their SoylentNews accounts? Really? I've changed my mind about running for office in 2020.
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Asked and Answered - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:05] <exec> 08└─So - according to the LiGButt community, twitter now has official standing as part of the government, but google does not? Seriously, look at that claim. A twitter account is an official arm of the US government, but his gmail account is not. FFS, how did that happen? Twitter filed an application to...
[01:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02And we are back to an ages old question - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:12] <exec> 08└─Who watches the watchers? Or to rephrase the question, who do you trust to monitor the situation? Obviously not Democrats. Everybody in the world is hacking their shit.
[01:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:20] <exec> 08└─At what level of office, exactly, must people surrender all access to third party services, such as email? Should every mayor in the country surrender their gmail accounts? Or, must they hold a federal office? Senators and congressmen? Every electronic communication they send or recieve must go thro...
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:22] <exec> 08└─And, WTF is Glennc moderated a troll? He asks a legitimate question. Some other posters have indeed shown that they are thinking about a solution, although I disagree with the solutions offered so far. Those posters should be agreeing with Glennc's post. Modded up because he speaks truth.
[01:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02out of the ordinary - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─You say "out of the ordinary". And, that is why Trump was elected. The voters were quite tired of the ordinary corruption in Washington. The past several administrations have been so very ordinary, and so very corrupt. The voters are hoping for something out of the ordinary.
[01:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No i686 support? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:50] <exec> 08└─Wow. Time passes, and maybe I'm getting out of touch. Doesn't seem that long ago that I installed DSL to see how the (then) new release to see how it ran.
[01:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:64-bit is not need to use more than 4GB of ram! - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 2892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:39] <exec> 08└─And still no single process can use more than 4GB. Which is kind of a killer if, as indicated, single programs are using more than that already, demanding x64 instructions sets to even load (I've seen drivers, games, and other applications all demand such), and not supporting other configurations. P...
[01:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:51:36] <exec> 08└─> Democracy stumbled on. Mr. Obama instituted a programme of extrajudicial killings of Americans. Among its (few) victims were a cleric and his teenage son. When a leader can have any of his country's citizens killed on a whim, that's a very serious threat to democracy. I'm not aware that Obama's su...
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[02:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:16] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what many feared would happen. Trump put somebody in charge of the FCC that would be just as happy to gut it. Specifically, every single part of it that helps the consumer and prevents corporations from bringing and end to the era of Freedom and equality on the Internet. It's kinda p...
[02:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:18] <exec> 08└─Hill? Is that Hillary? Or Anita Hill? Or somebody else? The thing is that the entire GOP is pulling Trump to be more corporate-friendly. There is literally no one in his party interested in the other direction. If Hillary had been elected there would have been plenty in the party pulling her to be l...
[02:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:20] <exec> 08└─Cable and satellite providers are shit companies with horrible service. When you finally get sick of being abused by them you simply cancel service and tell them to fuck off. If they lose enough customers they'll be forced to lower prices or improve service. I don't understand why everyone acts like...
[02:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pediatrician Dr. Christopher P. Bonafide - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:31] <exec> 08└─Baby Vida will keep your spawn alive. It's got the power of IoT and the SIDS cloud.
[02:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MDs are full of themselves - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:33] <exec> 08└─"There's no evidence" doesn't mean it won't work. There's no evidence for a lot of things. Sometimes we trust logic and reasoning, even without evidence. And what was that study that said most medical results are not reproducible? Sheesh. Personally, I don't want our child to start her life under th...
[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:MDs are full of themselves - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─Just be sure to change the password.
[02:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MDs are full of themselves - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:37] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate the potential creep factor. [google.com]
[02:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:57] <exec> 08└─I guess I have some kind of brain disorder. Every time I blink I see black for a second. I guess my brain doesn't do that "processing". Possibly I lack some sort of gene. It doesn't get in the way of my life. I can easily ignore the black moments, but unlike things like the blind spot, my brain is n...
[02:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ironic twist - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:21] <exec> 08└─In this case they were going to arrest her because she was not recording. Kind of an ironic twist.
[02:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:''[Liberalism] won't lead to a clone of Iceland - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:29] <exec> 08└─This isn't a new thing, "real American's" are pretty much everyone who has a couple generations roots, and they have always systematically denigrated every one who landed in the country after them as some sort of corrupting and unwelcome influence that would destroy 'real america'.
[02:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:38] <exec> 08└─More than likely what happened is that they argued with the cops at some point. That's how it works.
[02:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Degree of "protest" - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:44] <exec> 08└─If people are protesting, and just protesting, regardless of the topic they need to be protected to the furthest extent of the law. I am more happy with T than H but when it comes down to it I am very pleased that people are out there protesting. Where these people were the last 16 years with this m...
[02:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asked and Answered - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:04] <exec> 08└─Bless your heart.
[02:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:00] <exec> 08└─Google doesn't know how, or whether, someone voted. Some of those searches could have been done by Remain voters or people who didn't go to the polls. Your point stands though.
[02:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:09] <exec> 08└─LOL @ "said a senior E.P.A. career official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media on the matter."
[02:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:26] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, but, Cheney is a neocon. Maybe you slept through that whole usurpation of the Republican party by the neoconservatives?
[02:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02EV in off road race - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:38] <exec> 08└─Environmental virtue signaling in an environment destroying pastime.
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Triddle [4617] (Score:1) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but my Acer netbook still runs pretty well, and given the size it is very convenient when I don't wish to cart my 64 bit notebook around. I'd also care a lot less if it was stolen or damaged. Both run FreeBSD perfectly well, although only 32 bit on the netbook of course. If a Linux distro w...
[02:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score:1) 02Re:Possibilities are endless - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:03] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, the iPhone seems to recognise the user for the "Hey Siri" part. So when I'm at home and shout out from the kitchen, "Hey Siri, set a timer for 12 minutes", only my phone responds, even though there a few other iPhones sitting next to it. Same when I joke around at the office and shout...
[02:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:31] <exec> 08└─Pressurise is the correct English spelling when filling a tyre with air while pressurize is archaic but accepted (Webster usually chose archaic spelling forms to differentiate American from English for patriotic reasons). Pressure is the correct word in this case.
[02:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:33] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the person in a wheelchair had no say in being in a wheelchair or not. The person with a buggy made the decision to have the child - her choice. Imagine if somebody walked onto a crowded bus with heaps of groceries that couldn't fit on a single seat, such that that person need...
[02:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:35] <exec> 08└─I assumed it was like a pram, but reading other comments it's something else. Doesn't make any difference from my perspective.
[02:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does Not Mean What You Think It Means - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─One of the numbers I particularly find telling is that the US military cannot account for roughly $6.5 trillion that we've given them. In other words, 1/3 of the US national debt was money that was sent to the Pentagon and promptly disappeared with nothing to show for it.
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[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:13] <exec> 08└─And, third world countries haven't figured out that they should maybe follow the examples of first world countries?
[03:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Heard about this last week, why would soylent care - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, 3rd rate looter loots his country for a while, then gets kicked out, find out he looted the country. This is tech related how? I get the Trump stories, guy is either gonna make america great again, or loot the country for his own gain, or bring in the brownshirts, or whatever. This guy? W...
[03:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:17] <exec> 08└─Oh for fuck's sake, not this crap again. This is tech related how?
[03:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:19] <exec> 08└─General. Fucking. Interest. I found this to be interesting. You may disagree, in which case you're free to submit [soylentnews.org] stories you would like to see. The queue's low anyway.
[03:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Americans at their finest! - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, I love the small of napalm in the afternoon! Snotnose Runaway on foreign countries! America fist? What hath Donald wrought? Look, if you are an isolationist xenophobe, perhaps you should just cower in fear in your own tiny bunker with your big gun in your tiny hands. No need to share your igno...
[03:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:33] <exec> 08└─There's still more people at the green site. Habits are hard to break.
[03:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the cable companies are often also the only internet provider (or like here where the telecom also competes in both spaces) and while making sure competition is illegal through lobbying, will just jack up internet prices to cover the cable losses. Here in Canada (actually BC as i...
[03:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Tried to make an open cable box 17 years ago - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:37] <exec> 08└─2000. Working at a contract shop. Goal was to make a cable box that, among other things, would let the consumer plug a something into their cable box that they bought from somewhere besides the cable company. 6 months later it was clear that, no matter the law, the cable company was not gonna let th...
[03:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:12] <exec> 08└─but if I focus I can easily see blinks,
[03:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:27] <exec> 08└─People in the ranks take cues from the people at the top.
[03:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:29] <exec> 08└─Its literally the opposite of following orders. Its indulging your biases because you think you've now got institutional cover to do it. Cops have discretion because real life needs slack. Rigid adherence to the rules makes everything grind to a halt. But the price we pay for that slack is that it w...
[03:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:drink analogy - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:46] <exec> 08└─One drop is enough for me! Here you have Americans, a nation of tolerant liberal freedom-loving people, and you add one drop of nazi racism and it sours the whole thing. Nope, ain't gonna drink no racist water, no siree! Take that shit back to Bratbarf where you got it from, you scum of a rightwing...
[03:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:47] <exec> 08└─And now they're arresting journalists covering the coronation riots. Godwin's law in action. Trump is the new Hitler. Arrest all your critics and put them in prison. How quaint.
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[04:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02what the reason was. - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:14] <exec> 08└─Because "money". Film at 11.
[04:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confusing "Bureaucratic Idiocy" with "Intent" - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:15] <exec> 08└─To someone of Thiel's libertarianish philosophy, "citizenship" is not some magical part of one's identity; it's just another arbitrary bureaucratic checkbox. I like the scenery in New Zealand; If "citizenship" was all that was keeping me from buying a plot of land there, well then I'd purchase the c...
[04:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:17] <exec> 08└─Lots of hedge fund managers and silicon valley billionaires have decided they've been fucking up the country so bad that they need to prepare for it all to go to shit. [newyorker.com] Every time you hear about a rich guy buying property in NZ, its because they are doomsday prepping. Those assholes o...
[04:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting that, I was actually listening to the NPR podcast talking about that subject: http://www.npr.org [npr.org] Yes they should be trying to help the society, especially that most apparently th...
[04:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What for? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:21] <exec> 08└─Why should they try to fix this country? It's populated by us who voted Trump into the White House.
[04:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:31] <exec> 08└─I quote, "Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right." Derp-a-derp! I ask again, WTF do people allow former "leaders" to rape them of all their wealth as they are leaving office? I'm reminded of Imelda Marcos and her riches....
[04:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:34] <exec> 08└─I quote, "Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right."
[04:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:36] <exec> 08└─Runaway must have had a bad day. His posts this evening are even more self-aggrandizing than usual. Did he get arrested for beating his wife? Or maybe he had to stand behind a girl in a hijab at the supermarket checkout line. At least his need for validation isn't as bad as Trump's. That's a plus, I...
[04:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:38] <exec> 08└─"Alright, so maybe the US isn't the best example in all cases, but this one time, we have things pretty close to right."
[04:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:43] <exec> 08└─(same AC) Understood. Still don't get why this made the front page. It's a nothing story. It screams there aren't enough submissions. Understood.
[04:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─I get the Trump stories, guy is either gonna make america great again, or loot the country for his own gain, or bring in the brownshirts, or whatever. This guy? Who fucking cares, outside of the dozens of people in his little country he fucked over?
[04:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Americans at their finest! - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:49] <exec> 08└─Ah, fuck you. I'm snug as a bug in a rug in both my ignorance and my comforter cave in bed. Plus I have enough food handy to last a week of barbarian uprisings, and Rum to last unti, um, shit. I'll get back to you.
[04:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:58] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know how much the cableco pays for those cable boxes. I'll bet they get them for less than $100 each. My cableco charges $15 a month rental for each box, they recoup the cost after renting them for about 7 months. After that, it's pure profit. Lets say there's a million cable boxes being...
[04:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─If Hillary had won the election, there would have been nobody pulling her away from the donors. Sanders would have tried, but the only reason that the Dems got religion on any of this at all, was because they lost to Trump. And even there, it's questionable how much they really changed. Just look at...
[04:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Congresscritters - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:09] <exec> 08└─“Congresspeople”? Please don't antropomorphize them!
[04:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:34] <exec> 08└─I felt this was odd too. But it occurred to me that of course I can't see myself blink, and I've never paid such close attention to someone else blinking. It's certainly possible that it happens so quickly that the brain edits it out, like it does every other saccade.
[04:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─I can see blinks if I'm paying attention to them. Looks kind of like a black flash (slightly brighter after the blink, presumably as the iris adjusts). But I'm ridiculously aware of everything my body does, to the point that my doctor thinks I'm a freak. Might be not that you've got something missin...
[04:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fine, keep insulting us - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:21] <exec> 08└─It looks like we'll have to pass an enabling act. You'll blame conservatives, but it'll be you who pushed them too far. Your unwillingness to cooperate in preserving American culture means that things get ugly. Nobody likes this. Conservatives especially hate messing with how government functions, b...
[04:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02England sent the best - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:23] <exec> 08└─You're mixing places up. The bad ones got sent to Australia. Also, drop the "noble savage" myth. The original inhabitants, in either place, were also plenty bad.
[04:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Benghazi Bullshit - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:16] <exec> 08└─> The claim that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous reaction to Innocence of Muslims was fake news. No. What was fake news is the claim that they deliberately lied about it. At the time they said it. it was the best available information. As more info came in, it changed their understanding. That...
[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─I feel like "alternative facts" have been with us for decades, probably centuries. Although, presidential staff invoking them by name is a bit in-your-face.
[04:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:out of the ordinary - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Extraordinary levels of corruption and incompetence! Yay! Vote for Trump, what do you have to lose? Turns out, everything. Actually they voted for trump because of racial anxiety. Number #1 predictor of support for Trump - fear of a brown country.
[04:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:08] <exec> 08└─Have to consider memory as well. 64bit really should have 4GBs+ while this C2D that I'm using with 2GBs of memory, with old memory not cheap like new memory. I also use a T42 occasionally, 1.6Ghz Pentium M (basically a single core C2D) with only a GB of memory which doesn't even support 64bit but is...
[04:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Football or football? - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't an American football field about 100 yards due to Harvard not having a proper field? Canadian football has a 110 yard field, which works out to close enough to 100 metres, which means 10 Canadian football fields or 11 American football fields unless you're including end zones (20 yards x 2 unl...
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[05:42:12] <exec> 08└─And besides, the United States does not recognize dual-citizenship. (except in the case of the "special" nation. They usually do not terminate citizenship, but the fact remains that if Thiel is a Kiwi, he is no longer an American.
[05:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing "Bureaucratic Idiocy" with "Intent" - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:14] <exec> 08└─Not False! Just "alternative immigration law." And of course, having to actually pay taxes is usually enough to get these types to renounce. Loyalty, it's not just for nations anymore!
[05:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing "Bureaucratic Idiocy" with "Intent" - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:16] <exec> 08└─To someone of Thiel's libertarianish philosophy,
[05:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:21] <exec> 08└─And this is the particular rich, meddlesome fucker who was especially interested in foisting Trump on us.
[05:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weapons in NZ aren't as limited as in other places - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting... kiwis could bring doomsday to the ones escaping. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and other pages suggest population below 5M, licenses over 200K and weapons over 1M. Of course NZDF (Ngāti Tūmatauenga, "Tribe of the God of war"... stylish) could...
[05:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:36] <exec> 08└─DO NOT GIVE YOUR EQUIVALENT OF A PRESIDENT ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT MONEY!!
[05:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans at their finest! - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:45] <exec> 08└─Drunk-drive safely.
[05:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:55] <exec> 08└─there's nothing expensive in the cable boxes. my WAG: less than $20 in parts, when bought in quantity. the chassis is probably the most expensive part.
[05:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:03] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the quality of the comments? I check them out every few months and it's sad how bad it is.
[05:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:01] <exec> 08└─That is not how the law works. No country allows you in after you say you are coming to protest. You area allowed to come in and spend thousands of dollars (otherwise they do not want you). I have seen people who were harassed for not carrying enough money with them (they only had access to $4K).
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[06:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:11] <exec> 08└─This is why open-source is the way to go! Discourse http://discourse.org [discourse.org] is pretty good. ( https://store.greenant.net [greenant.net] is one conpany that provides hosted instances). It's quite memory hungry though. Flarum is a nice up and coming system. http://flarum.org [flarum.org]...
[06:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Insert obligatory meme - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:12] <exec> 08└─Blah blah cloud is not your server, now give me free karma.
[06:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:14] <exec> 08└─Depends on the perspective. De-facto, I think Facebook-accounts are more prevalent, and probably more people would join the discussions. For average-joe it might even be nice to show to more people what he is interested in, to meet and identify more friends in discussions, etc. And maybe it even lif...
[06:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:16] <exec> 08└─This doesn't surprise me, of course, and it's only going to get worse for anything providing "free content" or a "free service" online. But it's already gotten outlandish, in my opinion. Mainstream media sites used without adblock today frequently look like what you'd encounter on the "underbelly" o...
[06:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confusing "Bureaucratic Idiocy" with "Intent" - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:29] <exec> 08└─It means he enjoys a good Chianti with his fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fava beans! Here, for those uncultured fools who would mark me "Offtopic" [youtube.com]
[06:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:35] <exec> 08└─You are looking at it as someone who has to scrap for assets. Look at it through a different lens. The lens of showing off power. There are watches out there that cost 30k+ USD. Are they any better at telling time than elcheapo dollar tree special made in china? Not really. But they carry a differen...
[06:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:07] <exec> 08└─No. We need boxes that aren't designed and crippled by the cable company.
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:18] <exec> 08└─Well, they do have a bit of property damage
[06:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score:2) 02Re:Privacy for the People - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:01] <exec> 08└─The arms race of the powerful circumventing surveillance and the increasingly powerful surveillance will doubtlessly be a boon to the economy.
[06:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:15] <exec> 08└─LOL @ "said a senior E.P.A. career official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media on the matter."
[06:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:18] <exec> 08└─Wah! Obama wasn't 100% to your liking. So he's a total science-denying hypocrite.
[06:47:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 1215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:34] <exec> 08└─But honestly, the 2nd of those is just as likely to happen before the 1st as the other way round. But it came 57th in class this year, you say? The most competitive class, at that, the "car" class? Yeah, but there were only 57 finishers in that class. It lost. It was the charity case handicapped kid...
[06:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:17] <exec> 08└─I notice the trolls who use this stupid comparison never mention what superior military-free country they come from
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[07:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:16] <exec> 08└─number of sites are putting up walls preventing adblock (which is their right,
[07:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Fuck yes!!! - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe now I'll be able to see comments on more sites. If you browse without javascript then Disqus comments won't load. Disqus fucking sucks...
[07:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Funny) 02Makes no difference - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:19] <exec> 08└─Instead of not seeing Disqus comments, I'll not see Facebook comments.
[07:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes no difference - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of not seeing Disqus comments, I'll not see Facebook comments.
[07:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:41] <exec> 08└─And why do I need to post additional content to ask?
[07:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:43] <exec> 08└─A bolt hole is a place to hide. Why you need to ask? I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education combined with mediocre Google skills, or you prefer to bitch about your ignorance to going out of your way to learn something new.
[07:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:58] <exec> 08└─WTF does the ruler of any country have access to funds? Don't they have agencies and bureaucracies to handle money?
[07:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02FIFY - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:28] <exec> 08└─Ars Technica reports that nineteen bought and paid for Republican members......
[07:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:06] <exec> 08└─Every time I blink I see black for a second.
[07:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:08] <exec> 08└─"day to day I ignore them". That's what the publication is about. You CAN ignore them, because the brain does a great job of adjusting what is actually being sent by the eye.
[07:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:England sent the best - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:47] <exec> 08└─Up until the American revolution, they were sent to America. Georgia was a penal colony. Lots of indentured servants sent over, one reaction was to import black slaves because those horrible indentured servants were only indentured for x years and then they joined society. Look at the dates, the Aus...
[07:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Degree of "protest" - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:02] <exec> 08└─There were huge protests about the Iraqi war, barely covered by the mainstream press. There were huge protests after the 2008 crash, at first not covered by the mainstream press and then trivialized. Generally protests are no longer covered until they grow so big they can't be kept hidden and the au...
[07:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:The Unsecured Phone of the PEEOTUS - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:14] <exec> 08└─The only hope we have is that all the different spy agencies are trying to push each other out of it...
[07:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And we are back to an ages old question - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:32] <exec> 08└─Who watches the watchers?
[07:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:03] <exec> 08└─The gearbox is there to keep motor RPMs high. High RPMs keep motors cooler because electric motors are much more efficient and put out more power at high RPMs. And no, you would never wire the motor directly to the battery. It would fry the motor, and you'd run the batteries down really fast. Electr...
[07:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:30] <exec> 08└─Slackware is NOT a source distribution, though there are included tools and available repositories of source based packages (sbopkg and slackbuilds.com being the most well known in those categories). .t?z packages are binary packages and the system is installed from such packages, with some reposito...
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[08:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Informative) 02Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:13] <exec> 08└─It's no surprise that this bastard is keeping his job. It's likely he gave the election to Trump in November. Obama should have fired him after the election for his indelicacy. A conspiracy theorist would propose that Comey is a Trump supporter. Well, maybe. Given the insanity of the last election c...
[08:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Rehash comments - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:29] <exec> 08└─Just a crazy idea: Would it be possible to adapt Rehash so that it can provide comment sections on web pages?
[08:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02news:comp.misc - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:30] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be nice if we had a decoupled discussion forum? With threading, apps to support filtering, scorefiles, offline usable, distributed infrastructure, etc? Oh, wait, we have that. It's called usenet [comp.misc]. (According to https://www.gnu.org
[08:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:53] <exec> 08└─Unfair, AC! Why you need to ask? I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education combined with mediocre Google skills,
[08:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:55] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it's either because you have a lack of general education
[08:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:35] <exec> 08└─Rigid adherence to the rules makes everything grind to a halt.
[08:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:06] <exec> 08└─If they have press badges, or can produce the required paperwork, then they can film from wherever they'd like.
[08:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:47] <exec> 08└─Simply repeating your bullshit does not make it any more true than it was the first time you said it.
[08:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig. - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:38] <exec> 08└─All your base-pair belong to us!
[08:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:38] <exec> 08└─I tend to use my hottest hardware for desktops (should be obvious) and older/slower stuff for servers, meaning, 32 bit hw. I admin for a small hosting company and the servers are all older 32-bit hardware, most are dual P-III (yes) and they're quite fast. (Maybe I'm that good? I've always been a hot...
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[09:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Trump should be grateful - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 1897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:21] <exec> 08└─I disagree with you about Comey supporting Trump. Nor do I think he is a mole working for Putin. However, considering how many FBI agents there are in NYC and how many Russian spies are working in NYC to recruit moles for many years... Well, it's like the so-called birthday paradox. For each FBI age...
[09:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:31] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think it is the bad (as in immoral) financial model of Facebook that makes it such an enormous waste of time and the terrible financial model of Disqus that has forced it to this change while also preventing Disqus from improving. I think the kernel idea of Disqus was sort of good, but t...
[09:42:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 968 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:32] <exec> 08└─This doesn't surprise me, of course, and it's only going to get worse for anything providing "free content" or a "free service" online. But it's already gotten outlandish, in my opinion. Mainstream media sites used without adblock today frequently look like what you'd encounter on the "underbelly" o...
[09:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Fuck yes!!! - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:37] <exec> 08└─Disqus fuqing suqs...
[09:42:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Makes no difference - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:38] <exec> 08└─Instead of not seeing Disqus comments, I'll not see Facebook comments.
[09:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:44] <exec> 08└─When it comes to managing comments on a website, the free options include WordPress (and other native comment systems), Facebook comments, and [until recently] Livefyre (now owned by Adobe).
[09:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:46] <exec> 08└─Complete with your own vulnerabilities? Most people are not qualified to write it on their own. Not because they could not get it working, but because they would not know how to make it secure. What most people should rather do is to use a local installation of existing, well-maintained software to...
[09:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:09] <exec> 08└─And here native speaker me was thinking it was a hole you put a bolt into, but not the way Peter thinks of it.
[09:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:11] <exec> 08└─First this, and then I notice in the pipe a piece on Zuckerberg and the Hawaiians. Combined with some other "island" issues, like Ellison and his private island lair, is there a trend we should be paying attention to? South China Sea, anyone?
[09:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:26] <exec> 08└─Countries like Gambia have much smaller governments with political appointees (chosen for loyalty, not competence) likely having direct control of government funds. What bureaucracy exists is weak and unlikely to resist a request from the big man who has controlled the government for twenty years.
[09:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:28] <exec> 08└─Learn a slight bit about the history of the country and you will know why. The guy came into power by a coup, and kept in power since. Of course he kept the access to the state finance. It is for the new president to clean up his mess and put in checks.
[09:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Congrats to how this power transfer was handled. - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:38] <exec> 08└─The most thing I was surprised about was how the power transfer was handled. Many western countries could learn from that. This situation could have ended in a bloody mess, resulting in a civil war. Yet ECOWAS proved that African countries can handle such situation just fine without western interven...
[09:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:53] <exec> 08└─Hill? Is that Hillary? Or Anita Hill? Or somebody else?
[09:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:55] <exec> 08└─Well this is what happens when you let a party put corruption and identity politics over the good of the people. If the party would have went with Bernie (who poll after poll showed stomping both HRC and DJT) we wouldn't be having this conversation now but they cared more about wall street and her g...
[09:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Tried to make an open cable box 17 years ago - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:02] <exec> 08└─Don't remember the name of the spec, maybe DOCSIS
[09:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rent seekers - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:06] <exec> 08└─Great. We need a law to stop these rent seekers. What next..
[09:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:32] <exec> 08└─Every few seconds our eyeballs roll back in their sockets? Seriously?
[09:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:28] <exec> 08└─Oh please. I didn't see the guys on the right losing their shit, rolling cars and starting riots when Obama won either time...nope its just the regressives that have been acting like fucking fools. You lost, suck it up, quit throwing rocks and having baby fits and demand that every bit of the corrup...
[09:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:trump trump trump. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─It's because the Hillary Billys have been whipped into such a frenzy of rampant sexist racist hetrophobic hate that they can't help outing themselves at every opportunity. It's shocking what the evangelists of the so-called party of tolerance are doing in public and claiming the moral high ground. U...
[09:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Benghazi Bullshit - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, and the argument about inauguration crowd size is not "nit-picky shit" given that Sean Spicer was technically correct that total viewership (in-person + streaming + TV) was the largest ever? On Benghazi, the Obama administration had its talking points lined up to fit the preferred political narr...
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[10:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02HackerOne - 06'Hack the Army' Program Nets 118 Bugs - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:12] <exec> 08└─HackerOne are not "a security consulting firm under contract with the Pentagon". They are a go-between between independent hackers/bodgers and companies who want to give out bounties for bug reports and fixes. And I don't hold them in very high regard, as all we've got from them is that "your websho...
[10:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] 02Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:27] <exec> 08└─This is why open-source is the way to go! Discourse http://discourse.org [discourse.org] is pretty good. ( https://store.greenant.net [greenant.net] is one conpany that provides hosted instances). It's quite memory hungry though. Flarum is a nice up and coming system. http://flarum.org [flarum.org]...
[10:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:29] <exec> 08└─perhaps we need the "bittorrent protocol" for comments? Signed, distributed, and free of *any* corporation hosted on *citzen* machines? If symmetric internet ever becomes a "thing" , this would be possible. Anyone else think this would be a good idea?
[10:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:34] <exec> 08└─It's not only the Internet. Humans are far less enlightened and complex as they give themselves credit for. Smartphones are so shiny, the coloured clicky games stimulate the nucleus accumbens [wikipedia.org] so easily, why bother with real thinking? Why read, exchange arguments? You can just define...
[10:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:36] <exec> 08└─Having Disqus comments is the same as having no comments for me. Ghostery blocks them, because they track your web browsing habits across multiple sites (it blocks Facebook for the same reason). Hopefully this will lead to sites running their own comment systems.
[10:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:news:comp.misc - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:46] <exec> 08└─news:comp.misc is a valid URI; my Firefox in Fedora did not know what to do with it, although different newsreaders are installed.)
[10:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:news:comp.misc - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:48] <exec> 08└─I know. Fedora can be configured to assign default-applications to URIs, Firefox reflects these settings. But in Fedora, no app is assigned to the news: uri.
[10:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:52] <exec> 08└─If they never attempt to in the first place they will never learn how to write secure code and become reliant on others to do their work for them and implicitly trust those to do their job properly. A homebrew system may have vulnerability but it will not fall victim to the kind of automated rooting...
[10:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:26] <exec> 08└─You raise a *very* good point - battery replacement rather than recharging. You don't recharge diesel, you replace it. With chemical energy stores that have been placed, in advance, where they will want to pick it up. Forcing electric vehicles to recharge is an artifice, they should also simply be a...
[10:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:25] <exec> 08└─Last time I did the maths, it cost about £1/Watt for a device that's on all year around (it's probably higher now). A RPi uses about 5W (less idle), an old x86 machine is going to be at least 40W, often 60-80W. The cost of the power difference for one year is more than the cost of the RPi. If your...
[10:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:51:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly! If someone boards a bus laden with packages, I see nothing wrong with them setting them in the seat beside them providing there is surplus seatage available. However, once the bus fills up, and no more seats are available, to me the person with the excess packages should hold them in their...
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[11:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02From the David Cameron's new career dept... - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, now we find out what Cameron has been doing since June. "The process appears very inefficient" - yeah, that's what happens when you use politicians.
[11:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Man-Bear-Pig! - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:13] <exec> 08└─Southpark is almost real ... only 1/3 left to go.
[11:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:43] <exec> 08└─Read The Shallows yet? strongly recommend it for support of that thesis. That's why I want the deep-thinking cap to make it easier for me to shut out the distractions.
[11:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:44] <exec> 08└─I didn't, just checked the summary on Amazon. Looks interesting, maybe I give it a go. Thanks.
[11:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Rehash comments - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:55] <exec> 08└─Probably, yeah. If I put a mess more work into the API, redid the bits of logic that tied it to a story, changed up the db to be able to associate comments with a url instead of a discussion id, and wrote the javascript you'd need to include in your templates. Call it maybe two or three months dev t...
[11:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:27] <exec> 08└─I hardly think China's goal in the South China Sea is to create island refuges for their elite ruling class. They have the Communist option of simply killing any and all threats to good order and discipline before said threats get too big for their breeches.
[11:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Financial distress long before... - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:54] <exec> 08└─Over two weeks, over 500m dalasi ($11 million) were withdrawn
[11:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Blink - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:54] <exec> 08└─... quick ... back to the Tardis!
[11:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captain Black [2283] (Score:1) 02I've now become aware of my own blinking... - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:03] <exec> 08└─...damn you!
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[12:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:14] <exec> 08└─What a nice man after all.
[12:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump should be grateful - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:38] <exec> 08└─> wonder why Comey didn't reveal that BOTH candidates were under FBI investigation. That's the real point. It doesn't matter how valid either investigation is, making high profile statements about one but not the other makes no sense from a purely procedural point of view. To top it off, the timing...
[12:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:55] <exec> 08└─Basically the problem with that is that excludes people who are facebook-incompatible and as that policy becomes more and more widespread it gives mark z quite a bit of extra power over what he would have if his website was just another website among others. ie. it's like old microsoft all over agai...
[12:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck yes!!! - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:00] <exec> 08└─diqusting
[12:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes no difference - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─Wait! You didn't see that your best friend had a poo this morning? And the world didn't splode? Huh!
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─secure code
[12:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:41] <exec> 08└─Yes. The South China Sea dispute is a geopolitical show of force, strategic military buildup, and an attempt to control undersea resources and sea shipping routes.
[12:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Financial distress long before... - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:09] <exec> 08└─In some places, $6 is a week or two's income. There's definitely been times in my life when losing a week's pay would have put me in the shit.
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[13:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of his, but this wasn't as big a deal as it was made out to be. First off, the people who own these plots have no idea they actually own them, nobody is living on them, and it basically amounts to a messy situation for anybody buying land in Hawaii. These "lawsuits" weren't going to co...
[13:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:19] <exec> 08└─Yeees... The native Americans didn't know the land belonged to them either. Powerful unprincipled fucks felt the need to "clarify the situation" too back then.
[13:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─> I know "lawsuit" is a terrible word, but in this case, it's a step to clean up the title issues related to his purchase. He's not trying to rip anybody off. Land in Hawaii works differently than most of the rest of the US, this law is one example. But others like leasehold versus freehold are majo...
[13:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02research incomplete - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:31] <exec> 08└─There was no evidence that human cells were integrating into the early form of brain tissue.
[13:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Mysterious coincidende - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:33] <exec> 08└─Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists.
[13:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:50] <exec> 08└─It's probably payback for extensive administration interference in his investigation of Clinton.
[13:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing "Bureaucratic Idiocy" with "Intent" - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:37] <exec> 08└─But, property is theft
[13:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:47] <exec> 08└─Those assholes ought to be working on the problem of helping to build new institutions to replace those being torn down by the social isolation and paranoia that their creations are inducing. Instead they are running off to the other side of the planet.
[13:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:49] <exec> 08└─> It's not their job to clean up your problems. Bootlicker. They made the problems. They profited from the problems. They have a responsibility to fix the problems.
[13:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02another article - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:59] <exec> 08└─The lure of New Zealand for jaded Americans [bbc.com]
[13:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:22] <exec> 08└─Your eyes are constantly moving
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:England sent the best - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:20] <exec> 08└─It's worth mentioning that a staggeringly high percentage of indentured servants in Virginia in particular didn't make it to the end of their indenture. This isn't surprising, because their masters had a financial incentive to ensure that they didn't: They were supposed to pay their indentured serva...
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:trump trump trump. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:35] <exec> 08└─For anyone with two brain cells to rub together the stuff going on really is the craziest shit ever witnessed.
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[14:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Good enough for Government - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:22] <exec> 08└─What else can you expect from a violently imposed monopoly? If your system is based on violent imposition, then violent imposition is what you'll get!
[14:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:24] <exec> 08└─String her up. Prison is too good for this deplorable.
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─As a native American, I do have a right to comment on such matters. I stand by what I posted. Zuckerberg might be an asshole, but even assholes deserve equal treatment under the LAW. If he was acting outside of the LAW, by all means, crucify the guy. He didn't get his 700 acres by killing and raping...
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Invalid maths - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:47] <exec> 08└─You folks are doing pretty well with the obligatory Cameron and Bullingdon references, so instead I'll take issue with the maths. less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig
[14:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe. With such an intensive spotlight shone on him, the career bureaucrat whose chief goal in life is to keep his job and avoid professional risk, would have dithered, trying to figure out how best to not alienate the party or parties that would determine whether he can keep his job. That is what...
[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Reward - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. To me, it seems obvious that this is his reward for services rendered.
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:10] <exec> 08└─Comey belongs to clinton from 3 decades ago. Him and lynch both belong to clinton from that age. However i think comey wanted out. Tired of their shit, wasn't getting his bribes, found some evil shit like pizzagate was true. Or he just wanted to keep his job since all of his agents were about to r...
[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─found some evil shit like pizzagate was true.
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, that makes sense. I would love to see the symmetric internet happen on the hardware layer, too. It is critical to our collective future freedom and happiness and prosperity to shuffle off 19th-century style systems of centralized control. As a vague, unformed, and likely easily shoot-downable t...
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:34] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your specific point. They have the absolute right to put whatever they want on their web sites; and we have the absolute right not to visit those sites. That's the way it works. They have no obligation; but if they don't share information, then that will have consequences on the...
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:news:comp.misc - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─In my case (Firefox on Debian stable) it fired up KDE's reader, as expected. Can't remember if it's something I set or if Debian handled it automagically though, this install started around 2000 so it's possible I set it up manually sometime long ago...
[14:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─And this is the particular rich, meddlesome fucker who was especially interested in foisting Trump on us.
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is no they don't have "a responsibility". That's imaginary social contract bullshit. Let us keep in mind that there are far more poor US voters than rich ones. And a lot of the problems, like the rapidly growing costs of government entitlements like Social Security and Medicai...
[14:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─That's imaginary social contract bullshit.
[14:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:25] <exec> 08└─And why do I need to post additional content to ask?
[14:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:30] <exec> 08└─Beijing is trying to make de facto what their maps of the world have reflected for decades, that the South China Sea belongs to China in its entirety. Oil, fishing grounds, shipping lanes, and tightening the noose on their renegade province, Taiwan, are all part of that. More expansively, it could s...
[14:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:44] <exec> 08└─Your country still incarcerates people at a rate that makes authoritarian hellholes look good, legally condones corruption to the point where it's essentially a plutocracy and it regularly commits warcrimes, often against defenseless civilians.
[14:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:MDs are full of themselves - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:42] <exec> 08└─And industry wonders why IoT isn't taking off like expected.
[14:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─I've before watched myself blink in the mirror and taken video, my eyes sure as hell do not "roll back inside their sockets every time I blink." Your eyes more around a lot but they don't move THAT fast.
[14:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─Uh, just what paranoid and ignorant heuristic do you tell people to use? One cannot judge a book by its cover, and one dang sure cannot judge an internet URL by the characters in it.
[14:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Please cite'' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. COINTELPRO is effective. It's damned effective. And it's easy as shit. The most effective part is that even trying to make people aware that yes, there really are people who will do this shit, no it's not just being paranoid, just gets you labeled a paranoid nut. Getting video evide...
[14:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''The press has no[...]right above anyone else' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─But anyone could be considered to be part of the press, and the Constitution also guarantees freedom of speech. I see no reason the press would have more rights when anyone could be part of the press; the distinction is less useful now.
[14:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:And we are back to an ages old question - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:48] <exec> 08└─Keep your mother out of my yard, and I'll keep my yard out of your pig! Maybe if I spoke pig latin, I'd have written it your way, LMAO!!
[14:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:And we are back to an ages old question - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, Democrats. And Republicans. And other parties. It may be imperfect, but it's better than no scrutiny at all.
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:More Benghazi Bullshit - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:06] <exec> 08└─No. What was fake news is the claim that they deliberately lied about it. At the time they said it. it was the best available information. As more info came in, it changed their understanding.
[14:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:59] <exec> 08└─I've since provided more supporting evidence. I got this asserting things without supporting evidence problem figured out. Or are you saying that true things become not true because I post about them? Did reality change itself so that Obama didn't vote for FISA after he said he wouldn't? Or how ab...
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[15:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gimenez is a Republican - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:21] <exec> 08└─Gimenez is a republican, at least according to his entry on wikipedia as of last night. So its not that big of a surprise he would capitulate to president fugazi.
[15:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if progressives are starting to see the value of having a smaller federal government, and in granting more autonomy to states, counties and cities.
[15:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone sees the value.
[15:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─What 45 is doing is unconstitutional. He's tying unrelated funding to performance requirements. The SCOTUS just ruled on the same question like 2 years ago - they struck down the mandatory medicaid expansion part of obamacare that worked exactly the same way. The big cities will pool their resources...
[15:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─Yup, I always found it funny you can be charged for possessing drugs, if they were serious about fighting drugs they would go after those selling them. Instead of locking the person up with a little baggy.
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 2007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─"guilty persons have been released to further endanger the public" Have they been convicted of doing something that will endanger the public? Because them simply doing drugs in and of itself doesn't endanger the public. Sure if they were driving and under the influence. But is that the case here? I...
[15:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:43] <exec> 08└─I briefly glanced at TFA. Obviously this Annie woman is a nut and needs to go to prison, probably for about 120,000 years according to my calculations (24,000 cases times an average of 5 years each). But what about all the people who enabled her? What is happening to them? They should get the same 1...
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:45] <exec> 08└─you're doing it wrong then. that phillipine leader has the right idea. drugs are bad umkay. drug users are a drain on the system. period.
[15:42:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 731 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─As a native American, I do have a right to comment on such matters. I stand by what I posted. Zuckerberg might be an asshole, but even assholes deserve equal treatment under the LAW. If he was acting outside of the LAW, by all means, crucify the guy. He didn't get his 700 acres by killing and raping...
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh... - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─I don't care whether anyone would lose money or land in the case. I don't care who is right. I don't care about the word lawsuit. I just love the ammunition it gives people against the progressive icon Mark Zuckerberg, even ammo for other progressives.
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump should be grateful - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─this guy is not very good at impartiality, and has pretty shit judgement. To have him heading the FBI is dangerous for the country as a whole.
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─found some evil shit like pizzagate was true.
[15:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─Discourse is great.
[15:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:53] <exec> 08└─> can join Diaspora Is Diaspora still a thing? I remember them saying they were shutting down years ago. Would be nice to know if I was misinformed. Additionally If it is any good then might even be worth looking into setting up my own.
[15:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Fuck yes!!! - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe now I'll be able to see comments on more sites. If you browse without javascript then Disqus comments won't load. Disqus fucking sucks...
[15:44:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Fuck yes!!! - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:01] <exec> 08└─Disqus fuqing suqs...
[15:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes no difference - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─Yep. I will never create a FaceTwit account.
[15:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:39] <exec> 08└─> He made that arrangement in 2011 So he saw that things were getting bad and he decided to speed up the collapse. He's a real peach.
[15:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Day Drinking with Khallow! - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:46] <exec> 08└─> The obvious rebuttal Its pretty early in the day, but what the hell, Its Friday!!! Every time you say "the obvious rebuttal" everybody takes a shot. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]...
[15:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:58] <exec> 08└─A clever and determined foreign policy from the US would use China's aggression as a rallying point for ASEAN and its allies in South Korea and Japan to strengthen encirclement of Beijing, but we're probably not going to get that before it will be too late to employ it. A trade war with China means...
[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Good Choice - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─I can't fault the choice of New Zealand. It is gorgeous. The people are friendly. You can ski and surf in the same day. There are millions of sheep if you tend that way. It's unfortunate that it is so difficult to emigrate there. You have to put down an amount of cash that's prohibitive for all but...
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:15] <exec> 08└─I was arrested, for kicking you in the nuts for beating on some woman in a hijab, you self righteous prick. How are the 'nads?
[15:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:44] <exec> 08└─No, we need our own boxes. The reason is because there are anti-features that customers currently don't have a choice about. I had my own cable modem, router, switch, and wfi ap and the cable company was constantly pestering me about "upgrading" to their box. Only their box also created a second wif...
[15:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your service.
[15:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─I cancelled cable tv. I have internet, but have two local choices of providers. Both of them do offer tv content which I refuse. I'll stick with internet streaming services and an antenna. I don't watch that much TV, and I can find more than enough entertainment on a Roku with a few paid channels.
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Tried to make an open cable box 17 years ago - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:01] <exec> 08└─DOCSIS did make it so you could buy a third-party cable modem. You can buy them from NewEgg even: https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com]
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Please cite'' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:18] <exec> 08└─We're talking about a slimy bunch whose stock in trade is lies.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─I doubt the vehicle spontaneously caught on fire
[15:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:It is an issue - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:27] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely right. This is why the NSA and FBI need access to all of our communications. With it being so easy to setup a free account on gmail or hotmail or yahoo, we must allow the government to read and analyze all of our communications so that they can ensure that politicians are not circ...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:56] <exec> 08└─The plugin was fixed a while ago in 1.0.3 (it's at 1.0.5 now). More than likely you are running the fixed version already.
[15:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:57] <exec> 08└─I mean, I read the article, I saw that it was 'fixed'. I'm spooked because I don't know what else could be wrong with it, and people who let magic strings give you the key to the castle are not people who engender a good, healthy sense of trust. I honestly never even gave it a thought that it could...
[15:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:out of the ordinary - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 3606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because Hillary is brown, and all the women at her conventions were black or brown, and everywhere she went, she was mobbed by loyal black worshippers and - and you're so full of shit your eyes are turning brown. Well, that puts you on the road to being part of a brown nation!! http://downtren...
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[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─Libertarians have always warned of the future danger posed by collecting ever more power into a centralized government (especially a national government). Enjoy.
[16:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─How dare these local politicians expect the federal government to produce a warrant or a court order, when the federal government demands that the local government keep a person (citizen or otherwise) in jail. The next thing you know they'll be demanding due process, the rights of free speech and p...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds good all around to me. I've noticed that there are a number of places where cannabis is de-facto decriminalized as well. I see a similarity there. - Do the right thing and scale back enforcement for victimless “crimes” locally. - Reduce expenses jailing people who aren't hurting others. -...
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:45] <exec> 08└─Lose federal funding, but what do you need all that funding for now? Property taxes will suffice.
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─When you flagrantly refuse to enforce the law--and that's your job--somebody higher-up gets mad at you. Whodathunkit?
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:50] <exec> 08└─Except it is literally not their job. Immigration is a federal issue, these are local cops. They do it as a courtesy only. If the feds want these people they should spend their resources on them.
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good enough for Government - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:00] <exec> 08└─Humans are violent. If your system is based on humans.... Contract enforcement is a violent business, especially when you start having skirmishes, battles, and outright warfare with the other guy's contract enforcer.
[16:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:03] <exec> 08└─If your goal is to be viciously cruel to her, make sure she goes in before the women who she falsely convicted get out, and put them in the same population. They'll do far worse to her than anything you can come up with.
[16:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:09] <exec> 08└─If someone is doing various drugs (including alcohol) while operating a car or other machinery, give them a sentence. Otherwise, if they are stumbling around or hugging the street naked in public, treat it like a poisoning case. Bring them to a hospital, maybe give them the bill if they can afford i...
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, but: A) The proper analogy between driving and drugs here would be whether possession constitutes a crime, based on intended use. Nobody says owning a car or a motorcycle is unlawful or should be. As anyone owning one can (presumably) have a use for it as intended. There are lots of drugs that...
[16:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:13] <exec> 08└─Face the parent of a teen who just died from a heroin OD.
[16:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─D) "As in most of the world they are." And as they should be. Before I have to face you and tell you your kid will have permanent brain damage from their experimentation, ok?
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─More than that, criminalising drugs just created a whole class of crime where previously there was none. The drug trade would not be so profitable and thus spawn the levels of crime that it does if it were as legal as booze or tobacco, which are arguably just as harmful and addictive as scheduled su...
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─I for the most part agree with you, especially for low impact drugs like pot. Heroin addiction however almost invariably turns the addict into a criminal, and often violent, making for a more difficult situation.
[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─If someone becomes a criminal, then you'll have a valid reason to arrest them, but not until then. You can't even assume that all heroine use will lead to addiction. It's certainly not justifiable to ban someone from ingesting something because of what they might do in the future.
[16:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 949 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:23] <exec> 08└─I briefly glanced at TFA. Obviously this Annie woman is a nut and needs to go to prison, probably for about 120,000 years according to my calculations (24,000 cases times an average of 5 years each). But what about all the people who enabled her? What is happening to them? They should get the same 1...
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─The prosecutors who are all fighting against upholding the order of the court should be sent to jail too. Protecting one's conviction rate over justice should come with extreme penalties. But who am I kidding? They'll get some bad press maybe and then it'll be completely forgotten.
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those people should get over 100k years in jail too.
[16:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cop-out defense of power - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:39] <exec> 08└─Equal treatment for the powerful under the law written by the powerful for the powerful is a cop-out defense of power. No one is putting a gun to his head here. Social pressure is also a part of living in a society no matter how much ayn randroids would prefer it was not. Zuckerberg is learning that...
[16:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pure virtue signaling - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:43] <exec> 08└─Pure virtue signaling. Completely unsurprising.
[16:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Invalid maths - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:55] <exec> 08└─Or you could just parse it as Embryos that are less than 0.001% uniquely human - and the rest pig -
[16:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:40] <exec> 08└─I have an account and still see updates on my timeline... (Don't want to link here, because it is clear-name and I don't want to get it linked to my pseudonym here)
[16:44:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─Having Disqus comments is the same as having no comments for me. Ghostery blocks them, because they track your web browsing habits across multiple sites (it blocks Facebook for the same reason). Hopefully this will lead to sites running their own comment systems.
[16:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:45] <exec> 08└─Like you, I won't part participate in any discussion requiring a Facebook login. Nor will I participate in any discussion, outside of purely technical ones, requiring my real name. IMO, comment systems which require a real name are actually going to make things worse: quality comments will be rare,...
[16:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─they have an obligation to share information. Where is that written? Sorry, no. They're paying for the hosting and creation and maintenance of their site, it's theirs and they can do what they want with it. They have no obligation to anyone for anything except to pay their bills. If you don't like i...
[16:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And nobody intelligent was surprised.... - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:08] <exec> 08└─Free beer service finally reaches tipping point of established base large enough that they feel they can monetize the serve and, you know, start paying back their investors. Management, OTOH, now drops one wing and starts flying in circles desperately seeking alternatives that won't cut into the bot...
[16:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, the braggadocio of the thin-skinned internet tough guy. Empty threats leveled at some anonymous tormentor who sees deeper into your soul than you can. Your narcissism makes you literally the easiest trolled turd on this site. cue
[16:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:12] <exec> 08└─If he delegated the funds to underlings, I bet there would be an instant storm of corruption anyway.
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:19] <exec> 08└─You'll care when he decides to fuck up your country as well
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard about this last week, why would soylent c - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:22] <exec> 08└─> You'll care when he decides to fuck up your country as well The rest of the world has been fucked so hard left, right and centre by just about every POTUS in the history of the USA, Republican or Democrat, that the gaping bleeding wounds are still festering everywhere. From our point of view Trump...
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with your reasoning. I think Bernie Sanders could have defeated Donald Trump. He would have brought in enough of those working-class votes to win in states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Hell, even *I* would have voted for him, and I wouldn't even agree with all of his poli...
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─What got me was the fucking arrogance of the DNC. Hillary had the highest dislikes in 08 and her numbers were worse in 2012 while Bernie in poll after poll stomped both her and Trump, did they give a fuck? Nope their attitude was "You'll take this corporate shill and you'll like it because she has a...
[16:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brian does lots of processing - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:27] <exec> 08└─Speaking of the amount of processing and blinking: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Spontaneous eye-blinks occur much more often than it would be necessary to maintain the tear film on the eyes. Various factors like cognitive demand, task engagement, or fatigue are in...
[16:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:50] <exec> 08└─I find that happens to me when I am tired, especially after a long period of coding (staring at the screen). I actually see the black of the blink. Not sure if my brain is too tired to do the processing, or my eyes are too tired and blink slower than usual. Get some other effects from time to time a...
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:''The press has no[...]right above anyone else' - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of stuff mentioned in the Constitution that is only in there because the British were doing specifically those things. If it were written today, nobody would feel the need to mention quartering troops in your home either.
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When the people being arrested asked the officers why they were under arrest, some of the officers replied "I don't know". How is it legal for a police officer to place someone under arrest *without knowing why*? That's not an arrest, it's a kidnapping.
[16:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:52] <exec> 08└─Do not infer what I did not imply. I'm not accepting it. I believe I stated at least twice that it is unfair. I'm just keeping myself out of jail. If you want to argue with cops at a violent protest, be my guest. I have responsibilities to my family, my pets, my community and my own declining health...
[16:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:54] <exec> 08└─Additionally, you are wrong. In an emergency situation, arguing with the cops IS a crime. It is against the law everywhere to interfere with a police officer while they are carrying out their duties.
[16:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:58] <exec> 08└─Yea the problem with these is it's not like it's something you would go out and install if you didn't need it for work. Most people with IT jobs are tied to having WebEx and/or GoToMeeting plugins because you know you are going to use it and as soon as you remove it you will need it again before too...
[16:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Chrome, blech - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:08] <exec> 08└─It's 2017, bro. In the eyes of the majority, your browser IS your OS unless you're on a device with a fraction of the storage capacity, cpu, and bandwidth, then in that case, download and run my app!
[16:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:53] <exec> 08└─Depends on what kind of x86 system you're talking about. Obviously if you're running some massive gaming desktop with an 800W power supply it's gonna drain a lot of power. But on the other end of the spectrum, headless laptops tend to be pretty efficient -- you can easily get them below 10W. And I'd...
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[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─If it really is a room temperature superconductor as was theorised, then we have our own version of unobtanium. Amazingly useful and stupidly expensive. It would be a big deal. Then would be a question of whether we create our own at massive expensive, or find a remote moon to mine it from, against...
[17:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Make money at home! I made over 9000$/hour! - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─Just hand out hand-cranking diamond anvils to the people on welfare, and have them smash hydrogen into nowobtainable all day long! Sorted.
[17:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:30] <exec> 08└─Aside from what is mentioned in the summary, it's an electrical conductor, and [soylentnews.org]: Nellis and others have imagined a host of applications for metastable metallic hydrogen, ranging from super-lightweight structural materials that would allow entire cities floating on the sea to be buil...
[17:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Strangely, one mundane fact is what impresses me - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:32] <exec> 08└─They built up the pressure using a hand crank! Think about that; human beings produced more pressure than is at the core of the planet Earth—upwards of 500 gigapascals, or 5 million times the pressure at sea level—and they did it with a hand crank. Ha! It just goes to show you that with the ri...
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Strangely, one mundane fact is what impresses m - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:34] <exec> 08└─They built up the pressure using a hand crank! Think about that; human beings produced more pressure than is at the core of the planet Earth—upwards of 500 gigapascals, or 5 million times the pressure at sea level—and they did it with a hand crank. Ha! It just goes to show you that with the righ...
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strangely, one mundane fact is what impresses m - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─Psh, that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:54] <exec> 08└─Interstate extradition is a thing. I'm not arguing for or against it, but it is interesting that there is no expectation of some analogue toward the federal government, at least, that I'm aware of.
[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:56] <exec> 08└─It's always scary to me when the bigger governments straighten out the smaller ones. Especially when I feel like the whole law they are enforcing is wrong in the first place.
[17:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:58] <exec> 08└─It's always scary to me when the bigger governments straighten out the smaller ones. Especially when I feel like the whole law they are enforcing is wrong in the first place.
[17:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─It kind of makes me wonder wtf happened to her that made her act this way. Perhaps a bad trip on some illegal substance? Or maybe to many in-through-the-out-door one night stands? Maybe she's just incredibly fugly and can't get any? Is there a punishment to fit this crime?
[17:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─The hospital could easily pay for a weeks worth of Narcan on the money we spend incarcerating just one person for simple possession. I would imagine that like many other things, sale to minors would remain illegal. That doesn't mean much to a degenerate on the black market who is going to get years...
[17:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─Ride along on a few OD calls. Face the parent of a teen who just died from a heroin OD. Pay a hospital's budget for a week's worth of Narcan. Then you can have the right to suggest heroin should be street legal, OK?
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─D) "As in most of the world they are." And as they should be. Before I have to face you and tell you your kid will have permanent brain damage from their experimentation, ok?
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:3, Interesting) 02re Prosecutors - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─Bad prosecutors have a bright future, at least the one form California does! Quoting from the LA TIMES [latimes.com], about a guy who was indicted in 1998 and released until 2013 thanks to Kamala Harris, AG for California, who appealed his motions to keep him in jail: "[...] A federal magistrate rev...
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Good enough for Government" - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─What else can you expect from a violently imposed monopoly? If your system is based on violent imposition, then violent imposition is indeed what you'll get!
[17:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invalid maths - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:02] <exec> 08└─This is why research in such fields is a bad idea. High chance of creating more problems than solutions. When you start making these hybrids how do you determine something is human enough to get the rights of a human? Are human societies and laws ready for such stuff? I don't think so. Some corps is...
[17:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:47] <exec> 08└─I just checked the wiki page [wikipedia.org]. The software is still further developed [github.com] Actually I'm considering setting up my own pod. My main current account is hosted somewhere else, and works fine, and on my first attempt I had some problems setting up my own server (I sincerely hate...
[17:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:51] <exec> 08└─Now notice that there's no shortage of people happy to spout this stuff under their real name out there, and in quite vitriolic ways. But what kind of jobs do you think these people have?
[17:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:53] <exec> 08└─That's a very good point. I'll counter that posting vitriol under your real name can work out well in some cases, it just depends a lot on your career. If you're a professional seeking to be hired by a decently-run company, it's not likely to help you, only hurt. If you're some type of celebrity of...
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02site independent commenting systems - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─I'd very much like to see something like https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] take off.
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score:1) 02equally intelligent - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing your comments is a dumb idea. If you don't want to maintain it then just link to reddit. If you want comments, do it yourself. If you try to have your cake and eat it too you end up with neither.
[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the frak is a "bolt hole"? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─I'm a native speaker and I've never heard that term used in that context before. I asked about ten people around my office, which is in the United States, and none of them have ever heard of "bolt hole" meaning "a place to hide."
[17:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Financial distress long before... - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:36] <exec> 08└─Then you were already in financial distress.
[17:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:03] <exec> 08└─1. Who gets to decide what is and what isn't an "emergency situation"? A cop's job is to deal with emergency situations, after all. 2. How is arguing with a cop interfering with their ability to carry out their duties? The cop can always proceed to do what they often do, which is ignore the objectio...
[17:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:23] <exec> 08└─You can't so easily waive this away when the last time the Republicans were in the White House, they used this exact same service to conduct official business to circumvent the system. The Bush White House did the EXACT SAME THING that Republicans have been beating Clinton up for, including "losing"...
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Benghazi Bullshit - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─Technically correct? You mean Spicer's comment that the physical crowd was much bigger? Or that the WMATA subway ticket sales were much higher? Or that the photos are misleading because ground cover was used on the grass this time, but not during 2009? Not only were those very specific, and very eas...
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Benghazi Bullshit - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:56] <exec> 08└─So why do you quote a 2012 hearing article when there were seven or eight or more investigations done after that, plus the official report from Republicans that found very few differences between what was said at the hearings and what they put in the report? Then they conveniently release this tepid...
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[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Simple solution - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:22] <exec> 08└─Drone delivery via Amazon
[18:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─First I can never get a seat there because of the douchebags camping out with their laptops, but now it will be a pain to pick up my order because of the douchebags clogging the store while staring at their phones.
[18:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:25] <exec> 08└─First I can never get a seat there because of the douchebags camping out with their laptops Coffee shops aren't restaurants; the entire point of going to one is to sit down and relax for a while, not to get in and out as fast as you can. If coffee shops don't like that, they shouldn't have seats at...
[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─This Soyvertisement is brought to you by Grishnakh, and Panera Bread! And by Online For-profit University [youtube.com], coming to a coffee house or Panera Bread space near you!
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─> Nellis and others have imagined a host of applications for metastable metallic hydrogen, ranging from super-lightweight structural materials > that would allow entire cities floating on the sea to be built, to rocket fuel that packs nearly four times as much propellant power per kilogram > as the...
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─Not so sure I want to live in a city floating on a material that is only in a metastable state anyway.
[18:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─I'll tell Tim Cook to tell his Zealots that they should. It's the courageous thing to do.
[18:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:45] <exec> 08└─You're not likely to find this stuff on a moon. But I can tell you exactly where you *can* find it in real life, without even having to leave the Solar system: Jupiter. The core is most likely composed of a large mass of metallic hydrogen. Good luck extracting any. The planet is a little too small t...
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─Another interesting thing about it is that metallic hydrogen is an example of degenerate matter [wikipedia.org], where all of the lowest quantum states are filled and most of the pressure exerted by it comes from the Pauli exclusion principle. The pressure exerted by most types of matter depends on...
[18:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─You keep calling him 45. Here, let me say it for you: PRESIDENT TRUMP. Now go hide in your safe space.
[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:04] <exec> 08└─Triggered
[18:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02shouldn't need a warrant or court order - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─The jail shouldn't hold anybody for the federal government, but they should always notify the federal government prior to releasing anybody. If the federal government has reason to arrest somebody, they can show up at the exit and wait. The jail says "you're free, there is the exit" and the person w...
[18:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:10] <exec> 08└─I'm perfectly fine with the cities demanding that the feds use due process. I'm also perfectly fine with the cities telling the feds when they have charged someone of questionable immigration status, or even when arrested for a serious offense. If the cities don't want to hold "locally innocent" peo...
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you can't just keep the income tax money. Income tax is paid by individuals directly to the IRS (or rather, withheld by employers and sent directly to the IRS). Interrupting that relationship would probably end up involving troops being used to occupy any cities/states that preve...
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─no, people just need to stop funding the scum in washington. only cowards, traitors and/or idiots pay the income tax. what does the income tax pay for? depleted uranium for the middle east? selling baby body parts? stealing land all over the country? turning the world into a surveillance state owned...
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─That's likely exactly what would happen without a 16th Amendment repeal. I just meant to bemoan how having all that tax money sent directly to the federal level allows them to have a bigger say in local affairs than they probably should. I wonder what a breakdown would look like compared to the curr...
[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─Throughout all of American history the States Rights mantra has served exactly one population: whomever is not in control of federal policy. States Rights is not a real position unless you are a judge (who must consider the consequences of the law regardless of its merits). It is an excuse for why s...
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder when retards will start to see this is proxy work for big corporations
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sheriff' is an elected position - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:26] <exec> 08└─Travis County, if I recall correctly, includes Austin, which is viewed as the Berkeley of Texas by Texans who live outside of Austin. Not only do they have hippie liberal types there, they also have Catholics (as an acquaintance of mine was told by her mother, when she was leaving home in Waco to go...
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:31] <exec> 08└─One could argue more broadly that it's the job of every government employee to encourage compliance with the law.
[18:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─I advocate property rights instead. What I don't like is people not having the liberty to permit whoever they want on their own property.
[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─Everybody who's already here legally gets made a citizen, their college paid for, and a free boat, obviously. /s
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:39] <exec> 08└─*illegally dammit TM proofread :P
[18:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─Life in prison in Syria.
[18:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:54] <exec> 08└─That's what I can't figure out. What was her motive here? Was she too lazy to conduct the tests? Were the defendants in these cases personal enemies of hers? Is she a sadistic monster that delights in causing suffering for its own sake? None of these guesses seem realistic.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe this would be more realistic. Prosecutors want to use drug labs that give a lot of positives, right? So, she fakes positives to drive business. Happy customers = repeat customers.
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:07] <exec> 08└─A) The proper analogy between driving and drugs here would be whether possession constitutes a crime
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─>>>Heroin addiction however almost invariably turns the addict into a criminal, Well, so would Tobacco addiction, if tobacco were illegal and the addict had to pay street prices for it. Instead, they can go down to the corner store and buy a pack of smokes for $5. Where's the incentive to become a c...
[18:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:13] <exec> 08└─most violent robbers are not addicts. addicts are weak and sick. they usually beg or hustle some non violent way, sometimes including theft, but usually not violent theft. the "people" doing carjackings and kick doors are just criminals that are too stupid to sell drugs or other crimes that involve...
[18:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:17] <exec> 08└─that phillipine leader has the right idea.
[18:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02URGENT?!?!?! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:23] <exec> 08└─...issuing an urgent call to resolve a scandal that has plagued the legal system since 2012.
[18:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Wait - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:26] <exec> 08└─So the forger was IMPRISONED in 2013 and only now, 4 years later, they're getting around to releasing the people who were wrongfully convicted???
[18:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure virtue signaling - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:40] <exec> 08└─Yup, damn SJWs never stop huh? Oh, I forgot to mention, in this case it stands for Stupid Justice Warrior.
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure virtue signaling - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─ahhh, should I have posted a trigger warning for you?
[18:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02What do you call it - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:57] <exec> 08└─And what do you call it when you fry up bacon from the pig after you've harvested the human organ from it? Is it cannibalism, sorta cannibalism, or pork with a certain je ne sais quoi?
[18:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:46] <exec> 08└─maybe switch to disconnect instead of ghostery. disconnect is open source. ghostery is made by advertisers and is closed.
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02privacy.trackingprotection.enabled - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─In fact, equivalent functionality to the Disconnect extension is built into every Mozilla Firefox browser. Go to about:config and turn on privacy.trackingprotection.enabled.
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:news:comp.misc - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─It's been quite a while (probably fifteen or so years, if not more), since I last used Usenet, so I could be quite wrong. That being said, most ISPs have long dumped Usenet access and finding a good Usenet provider (especially for free) ain't exactly easy to stumble upon unless you know exactly what...
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─It's hardly imaginary. It surrounds you every day of your life. When you haul your drunken ass into a cab late at night on payday, what's to stop him from murdering you, grabbing all your cash, and dumping your carcass in a back alley? Nothing but the social contract.
[18:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:49] <exec> 08└─let us keep in mind that there are far more poor US voters than rich ones. And a lot of the problems, like the rapidly growing costs of government entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare, the rapidly growing costs of things like education, shelter, and health care, or the decline in...
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─Silly Soylentils! So easily distracted! Squirrel!!! (Pay no attention to the young blood transfusing flightless bird behind the curtain!)
[18:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:44] <exec> 08└─The eyes move around during a blink to get better lubricated. The whole point of blinking is to lubricate the eyes.
[18:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:23] <exec> 08└─Again you've got it exactly backwards. The rules constrain the cops more than they constrain the people. Less rules, means more discretionary power.
[18:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:26] <exec> 08└─> No country allows you in after you say you are coming to protest. I'll take made up facts for $1,000 Alex! > I have seen people who were harassed for not carrying enough money with them 100% irrelevant to the discussion. A further sign you aren't playing with a full deck.
[18:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:54] <exec> 08└─You can piss right off with your false equivalences, its like you didn't even read my post and just decided to throw your own hissy fit. It is telling that you stop condemning the increasingly dictator-like behavior of the President now that "your guy" is in there. You should grow a pair of balls an...
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[19:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:36] <exec> 08└─People go there for regular coffee? I stop by sometimes for one of those coffee flavored deserts, but never for regular coffee. I'd find a McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts before considering Starbucks for straight coffee.
[19:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:37] <exec> 08└─Panera also has on-line ordering; you can just order and pay straight from your phone and then pick it up.
[19:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─But when someone sees me with my laptop at Panera, they assume I'm only reading email or something because the booths don't let people view you very well, while at Starbucks, they can see that I'm obviously working on my awesome screenplay.
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02working on my awesome screenplay - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:42] <exec> 08└─..in Ogallala, NE
[19:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not too brite - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:44] <exec> 08└─they couldn't figure out what would happen when you automate and streamline half of the process? stupid ass bastards...
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:not too brite - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─They only got 7% more revenue, but end up with enough congestion to consider revamping the stores?
[19:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Strangely, one mundane fact is what impresses m - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:04] <exec> 08└─Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. -- Archimedes
[19:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Strangely, one mundane fact is what impresses m - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─with the right configuration of atoms: man
[19:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Fairer Sex - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know about "man", but give me woman, and I'll show you some extended capabilities!
[19:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:10] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone think that the stuff would remain solid once the pressure is released from it?
[19:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:34] <exec> 08└─You don't need more property taxes to make up for it; states are free to have their own income taxes, and in fact most of them do. Sure, most of them are little more than "how much did you send the IRS this year? Ok, send us this fraction", but that's by choice. States can also raise more money with...
[19:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:43] <exec> 08└─Unless say you are an investigator who wants immigrants to report crimes, or a traffic analyst who wants immigrants to get driver's licenses (and therefore learn to drive before doing it), or a teacher who wants immigrants to learn English, or any number of other public functions that rely on societ...
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:50] <exec> 08└─I'll settle for what you were offering the first time around. A strange world to me where we fail to properly take care of the people already here, and then we want more to come in whom we would hypothetically offer to take better care of.
[19:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thanks - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:52] <exec> 08└─i was wondering what the current status was this morning! BTW, if you wait too long while using tor soylent gives an error and wont let you post without starting over. if you post to fast it makes you wait. give me a break!
[19:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thanks - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─>...give me a break! "OK." crack! OH MY MONITOR!!!
[19:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Honest Question - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:57] <exec> 08└─Why would a sanctuary city be eligible for federal funding in the first place? Is it not a local issue? Aren't these areas monitored, staffed, and maintained by local city or county administrations? Or are these areas literally 'being paid for' by the federal gov't (us taxpayers)? Perhaps ther...
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:15] <exec> 08└─You may be onto something here. Though, if a lab consistently produces positives to the point that the prosecution notices, the defense would also notice and use this discrepancy to undermine the evidence. However, if it was more of an under-the-table sort of transaction, it might be possible. DA: H...
[19:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─A twisted sense of justice and indifference.
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Is she a sadistic monster''? - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:18] <exec> 08└─It is the result of a defective brain but it's a lot more common than your hypotheses. Authoritarian [google.com] zealot [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:20] <exec> 08└─It's not fugliness; read the article. They have a photo of her and she's pretty attractive actually. I think the other poster is correct: she must have an authoritarian mindset. The kind of mindset that leads to death camps. Unfortunately, this woman proves you can't judge a book by its cover. Just...
[19:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:40] <exec> 08└─A system is less important that the system's users. If large portions of the population are pouring drugs into themselves, in order to briefly escape from the system, it suggests that the system is not fit for purpose. You, on the other hand, conclude that these people are not fit for purpose. Do yo...
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kamala Harris, Steven Mnuchin, OneWest - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─Yup. Been keeping an eye on her for some time. Blue Dog [google.com] Kamala Harris defeated Blue Dog Loretta Sanchez to take the seat of the mostly-Progressive Barbara Boxer, who stepped down after four 6-year terms. Kamala Harris Wants Barbara Boxer’s Senate Seat (Opposes A Special Prosecutor For...
[19:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03keick [719] (Score:1) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:47] <exec> 08└─The rub is, she DID go to prison... Was got a whole 4 years for basically ending the lives of nearly 24,000 innocent folks. How many folks are immediately disqualified from work because of a prior drug conviction? Yes, their lives were completely ruined, and this dumb chick who never when to graduat...
[19:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03keick [719] (Score:1) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:49] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, sorry for the bad grammar. I really should proof-read things before I hit submit.
[19:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:URGENT?!?!?! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when I'm doing my baking, I carry my sugar around in a ziploc baggie in my pocket with my "water pipe".
[19:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:URGENT?!?!?! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:55] <exec> 08└─Inside the box, the sugar is packaged in a plastic bag. No water pipe needed if a cop decides it has to be drugs and the lab agrees. I haven't had exactly that happen, but I have been questioned about pipe tobacco in a ziplock before.
[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02subject goes here - 06Zuckerberg Reconsiders Lawsuits Against Native Hawaiians - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:15] <exec> 08└─so with all his high priced lawyers he couldn't find out if people owned pieces of the land he wanted to buy? he was probably told he could just kick them off, he agreed and they bought. when found out, act surprised. bullshit. he could have bought land somewhere else but he just had to have hawaii...
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What do you call it - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─Efficiency.
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─> If symmetric internet ever becomes a "thing" , this would be possible. So cute when they're in the naive phase... Over the next two years, Chairman Pai will dutifully watch as your ISP gives you a 1GB/month cap for anything that is not provided by their own servers (or websites paying for the priv...
[19:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─you're just not going to see it without paying or disabling your ad-blocker (or using some technical means to get around the block). So far, it really isn't a problem.
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:How many more ads can we take? - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─They really do that here? I'd just tell them to go screw themselves. AFAIC, if an article is pay-walled or ad-block-blocked, then I'm under zero obligation to read it before making all the commentary I want. If they want me to read the article, they better find an accessible source for it. Maybe thi...
[19:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02reddit's 10 percent rule - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:56] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to maintain [your own comments section] then just link to reddit.
[19:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pitiful - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:57] <exec> 08└─if you use disqus for your site you're a pitiful fuck.
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what the reason was. - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:08] <exec> 08└─You missed the "tory government" part also. Self entitlement and thinking the rules don't apply to them (often then proving it) is a feature, not a bug...
[19:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:44] <exec> 08└─> use China's aggression as a rallying point for ASEAN and its allies in South Korea and Japan to strengthen encirclement of Beijing Funnily, the fact that US allies overlook all the islands separating China from the open sea is one of the main drivers of those Chinese "aggressive policies" (resourc...
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Trump! - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─It's Trump's way of making America great again: get rid of all the rich American a**holes who do nothing but buy politicians to vote the rich american way instead of in the interests of America. Get rid of the lobbying, get rid of the corruption, get rid of the politicians way of getting money other...
[19:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:need an example? - 06The Gambia: Ex-Ruler Yahya Jammeh 'Plundered Coffers' - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:11] <exec> 08└─> DO NOT GIVE YOUR EQUIVALENT OF A PRESIDENT ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT MONEY!! How about a dictator, then, since that's how he acted (until he strangely left enough of an opening to lose an "election")?
[19:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congresscritters - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, the world's critters such as skunks & insects deserve to be in their own comparatively royal category in comparison!
[19:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02slave traders - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─no, they can differentiate themselves by lowering their prices, offering faster speeds, better uptime, etc. you know, stuff having to do with the service they are selling. not trying to weasle into your whole home with their slaveware so they can control and datamine everything you hear or see. next...
[19:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:35] <exec> 08└─Either I have been blinking "wrong" for about five decades, or my eyes are way more precise
[19:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:37] <exec> 08└─Either I have been blinking "wrong" for about five decades, or my eyes are way more precise
[19:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think it's just journalistic wafflebollocks.
[19:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:55] <exec> 08└─But when not explicitly thinking of it, the nose "disappears" completely from my perception.
[19:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:22] <exec> 08└─"The rules constrain the cops more than they constrain the people." good!
[19:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you deserve it - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:27] <exec> 08└─if you're running chrome instead of chromium and installing some proprietary plugin you deserve all the shit you get. you're a common street hooker and you deserve the std
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[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02transparent - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:22] <exec> 08└─Easy to see where this came from: plaintiff's lawyer went looking for a "deep pocket", and Snapchat was handy.
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:24] <exec> 08└─Every app will now demand access to your accelerometers, location and full internet, just so it can track you for the purposes of dismissing lawsuits. They'll pinky-swear that they won't use the collected data for other reasons ... until version 0.9.3.
[20:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple solution - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:33] <exec> 08└─Drone delivery via Amazon
[20:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:41] <exec> 08└─I agree. Even a decent gas station has better coffee, imo.
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─That's easy, buy a trilby or pork pie hat and wear it. Everyone will immediately know you're a douch..er I mean screen writer.
[20:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02I'm not surprised - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:50] <exec> 08└─My credit card company sent me a Starbucks gift card with a note that said "have a cup of coffee on us!". The only time I drink coffee when I'm not home is breakfast somewhere else, the nearest Starbucks is a few miles away, so I decided to give it away. I figured someone in my sister's yuppie famil...
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:04] <exec> 08└─and the extreme pressures have formed metallic hydrogen at the core.
[20:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─Where do you get the idea that anyone thinks that? When the pressure is released, the hydrogen will return to its gaseous state. The talk of metallic hydrogen working as a room temperature superconductor presumably assumes it is still under extreme pressure, just not at very low temperatures.
[20:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─he gets the idea from reading the literature on the topic (or just google it). Or at least...there is some evidence that metalic hydrogen is metastable. The evidence is a bit thin as nobody has disputably produced a lot of it however. -- moondrake
[20:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:18] <exec> 08└─Dunno, they are talking about using it as a building material. Maybe it is like diamonds, once you apply the heat and pressure to get carbon to form the diamond structure it will retain it at standard pressure and room temp, so maybe hydrogen will too? But then again they are keeping their sample at...
[20:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:20] <exec> 08└─The quote above about floating cites suggests somebody thinks otherwise. I think a better answer is that we don't know.
[20:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─only cowards, traitors and/or idiots pay the income tax.
[20:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, states agree unless they don't.... genius - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─All you're saying is that when a person agrees with the federal government's stance, then some how that person magically no longer supports "States Rights"... What? And, what does "liberal" have to do with anything? We see here an example of people not wanting to follow a "conservative" policy.
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sheriff' is an elected position - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─Cracks me up how afraid the religious are of hippies and catholics (the hippies/liberals of the religious world). Just shows how shaky their own faith is that their children can be "turned" against their own religion. Funny, when people find out the truth they tend to roll with it instead of doublin...
[20:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, bit of a telling Freudian slip there. One of Bernie's platform points was affordable college education, so take off the boat part and the il- and I'm for it.
[20:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thanks - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:07] <exec> 08└─if you post to fast it makes you wait
[20:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honest Question - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:10] <exec> 08└─"Sanctuary city" is a term applied to any city that does not disclose the legal status of its citizens. The whole city. Though it is understandable that you write as if these sanctuary cities are an 'area', tent-camp, or shanty town apart from the city- as the media would have us thinking it's an in...
[20:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:45] <exec> 08└─You can't even assume that all heroine use will lead to addiction. I don't know, I was pretty addicted to Wonder Woman.
[20:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:48] <exec> 08└─Or alcohol. Lots of people get violent when they drink, or drive away from the bar and kill someone.
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Punishment - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:55] <exec> 08└─filled to capacity prisons, militarized law enforcement
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invalid maths - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:38] <exec> 08└─Animals already have more rights then humans in some contexts.
[20:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Human organs grown in pigs? Not so fast - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:42] <exec> 08└─Human organs grown in pigs? Not so fast [sciencemag.org]
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what a life! - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─so ... can i get a human-pig and grow (inside it) my own real-life(tm) anime doll already? i promise to be extra careful to NOT feed her bacon!
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:What would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:38] <exec> 08└─I intentionally refuse to censor or conceal my online identities for the sake of employers. The kinds of employers that would even look at a candidate's Facebook, let alone use it as a basis for hiring decisions, are the kind of petty tyrants that I wouldn't want to work for anyway. If they refuse t...
[20:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:53] <exec> 08└─Funnily, the fact that US allies overlook all the islands separating China from the open sea is one of the main drivers of those Chinese "aggressive policies" (resources and pride being the other two). They want a Blue Water PLAN, but to reach blue waters they have to go past US weapons, because the...
[20:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Silicon Valley war on Polynesia? - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:55] <exec> 08└─Look at that map again. To get from their coast to open international waters (the Pacific), they always have to go past a US base or ally. It would be a major issue in case someone turns too bellicose, but it's a already permanent issue that they can't come and go discreetly (which is kind of import...
[20:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:49] <exec> 08└─Well, it wasn;t required reading in my school in the 1960s. I read it because I'd enjoyed Animal Farm. Stopped reading it when I got to the part where rats were eating the guys's face.
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[21:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:25] <exec> 08└─Why? Snapchat won this round handily. Putting the speed over the image is pretty damn stupid, but then again, so are in-app purchases in Candy Fuck My Wallet Crush. I'm not surprised. There are an awful lot of impending Darwin Awards out there waiting to happen. Some people are just dreadfully stupi...
[21:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised. There are an awful lot of impending Darwin Awards out there waiting to happen. Some people are just dreadfully stupid and on the road too, and behind large machinery. Inside work, outside work, you name it.
[21:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:29] <exec> 08└─And here's why plaintiff's lawyers went looking for a deep pocket, http://www.all-about-car-accidents.com [all-about-car-accidents.com] From that page, Georgia is a “Fault” Car Insurance State Georgia follows a “fault” syst...
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Can I still wait in line if I order with my phone? - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─Being seen in line at Starbucks is the whole point of conspicuous food consumption. What's the point of paying five dollars for a cup of coffee if I can't show it off? "One latte please, no foam, extra self-esteem."
[21:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Starbucks is like McDonalds - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:52] <exec> 08└─Consistent, if low quality, product in an expected environment. Best to stretch a bit and try local Mom & Pop coffee shops. There is treasure out there.
[21:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:08] <exec> 08└─His dad works at NASA
[21:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:09] <exec> 08└─One part measurements https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] One part extrapolation. We have a pretty good idea how 'heavy' it is. We also have a decent idea of what the composition of the planet is. We need to measure it but have some decent guesses from spectrum analysis. htt...
[21:43:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 1446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:39] <exec> 08└─I'm perfectly fine with the cities demanding that the feds use due process. I'm also perfectly fine with the cities telling the feds when they have charged someone of questionable immigration status, or even when arrested for a serious offense. If the cities don't want to hold "locally innocent" peo...
[21:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─Libertarians have always ignored the danger that having corporations collecting all that information represented. Libertarianism is a disease of the mind primarily characterized by a complete inability to accurately predict the consequences of actions. The government shouldn't have all the power, so...
[21:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know what liars have been calling themselves libertarians in your hearing, but libertarians in general are pretty big, not only on governments interfering with people, but people interfering with each other. Someone somewhere didn't read the fine print, bolted upright and screeched: "LIBERTA...
[21:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, states agree unless they don't.... genius - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:54] <exec> 08└─Give him time. It takes some people longer than others to catch up to the changes in narrative they're told to follow.
[21:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:33] <exec> 08└─Very possible. My doctor requires a drug screen a few times a year. The test usually costs about $95, but they switched labs to one in Texas that charges $3400 for the same test. I informed the doctor about this, they said don't pay them and they switched back to the other lab. I did a little diggin...
[21:44:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02Criminal Justice in General - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:37] <exec> 08└─Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Discourse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─I'd certainly like to see that, but my host would have to implement it. I could use it for my blog, but I don't trust any of the packages they have (and there are tons of tools).
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad financial models would be worse - 06Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─Ditto :) My knowledge of Disqus is exactly limited to that Ghostery block image that says 'Disqus is blocked'. There is only one place on the Internet I comment on anything, and that is right here. Well, technical mailing lists are excluded since my real name is there along with an actual phone numb...
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Best govt money can buy - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─Who is "we"? Don't lump me in the ignorant camp. We don't need boxes, PERIOD. Cable became obsolete when TV went digital. There is absolutely no non-stupid reason (okay, one*) to have cable in the 21st century. * If you're in a mountainous area, or that part of West Virginia where radio waves are il...
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02this ^ - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:56] <exec> 08└─Hillary wouldn't have made a difference. The only candidates that might have made a difference here were Sanders, Stein, and Barr. (Johnson would have gutted most of this stuff his first day in office, rather than first week.) However Sanders cowtowed to Clinton/the DNC and threw the election in sup...
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate Greed Takes Over - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:02] <exec> 08└─killing the set-top box measure keeps their rental fees, but only exacerbates the reasons why people cut the cord in the first place It doesn't matter. Cable is obsolete unless you're living in a valley or something. Now, in 1980 it was great. OTA TV had snow, ghosts, and a limited number of channel...
[21:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:This shouldn't require legislation... - 06Congresspeople Ask FCC to Ditch Set-top Box Plan - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:10] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why everyone acts like they can't survive without TV... I don't understand why you people think you need cable to watch TV. I have no cable, live in a city of 110,000 and get 18 channels in 1080p.
[21:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Weird - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:13] <exec> 08└─When I have been up for 16 hours, things start getting desaturated and grainy.
[21:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of how... - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:15] <exec> 08└─Our brain momentarily "blacks out" what we see as our eyeballs move to prevent blurring. Neat stuff, evolution is.
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[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Violently Imposed Monopoly - 06Class Action Lawsuit Targets PACER Fees - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─We already expect overcharging and poor service from any monopoly. So, what can you expect from an organization that declares its monopoly by violently imposed decree? Just because such an organization calls itself "government" doesn't mean its magically different.
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Informative) 02It's about time - 06Class Action Lawsuit Targets PACER Fees - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:21] <exec> 08└─I use PACER occasionally. I've never been charged for anything because I always stay under the $15 limit. However, I am aghast at just how much the system charges for every little retrieval. These are public records after all. They should be free in as speech and free as in beer. Right now, they are...
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:33] <exec> 08└─That's not how I meant it. The driver is the impending Darwin Award, and yes, there was an innocent victim that got killed. Still, going after a company that made and supported technology the asshole was using is wrong. You go after the asshole, put them in jail, and then the victim's next of kin ca...
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─We have a winner! A traumatic brain injury will easily eat up well more than 50K, especially if you factor reduced income potential into the mix. It is also notable that his insurance company may have insisted that he file suit against snapchat. It isn't at al;l unusual for insurance to delay or ref...
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─And there is the real problem: ludicrously low requirements on liability coverage in most states. In the UK, traditionally, policies had no limit, but now it's commonly limited to £20M for damage to property, following a £22M claim due to the Great Heck rail crash. [wikipedia.org] Policies still u...
[22:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─> Why? Snapchat won this round handily TFS: the company (PDF) asserted that the driver whose car collided with the plaintiffs' car "was not using the Snapchat application at the time of the collision. That's why. My point is that anyone making any app is now strongly incentivized to track you in ord...
[22:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We cannot regulate because it's on the Internet - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:42] <exec> 08└─Not weighing in on the merits of the case, but the reasoning in the case is scary. The court punts on being able to regulate Snapchat, just because it declines to open a corporate office in Georgia. Which seems just strange, to say the least. I mean, they are clearly doing business in Georgia, in th...
[22:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Aw man - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─The glowing Apple logo on a laptop is usually enough.
[22:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm not surprised - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─If you find some misguided palate who carries around their own Starbucks card, you can give/sell/trade them your card, and they can go online to consolidate your card balance onto their card. If they're in California, the balance will never expire or drop due to lack of usage fees, so it sort of wor...
[22:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:26] <exec> 08└─Read my submission, ignore charon! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[22:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─Diamond comes from the pyramid structure that is carbon bound to itself. There are many structures atoms can arrange themselves in. Would not surprise me their is a combinitorial formula for it. Carbon has many forms because it has 6 spots you can bond onto. Not quite sure how hydrogen would be room...
[22:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smaller federal government - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:11] <exec> 08└─You mean because Trump passed an executive order with no results? I mean, (1) It would be a Congressional action to deny them funding; (2) The Supreme Court has ruled that they can only deny funding on related matters - that is they could deny law enforcement funding - that is the one area with a bi...
[22:44:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Surprise surprise - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:15] <exec> 08└─When you flagrantly refuse to enforce the law--and that's your job--somebody higher-up gets mad at you. Whodathunkit?
[22:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honest Question - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:33] <exec> 08└─New question: If illegally immigrated inhabitants of a city cannot legally hold a job and don't pay taxes (well, okay, sales tax, I suppose) and cannot vote, of what use are they to the city? Other than 'feelings', I mean. I'm being equally serious here.
[22:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honest Question - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─"Equally serious?" You are disingenuously stating your arguments as leading questions. That's not even a true dialectic, its just smug assholeness. Stop wasting people's time.
[22:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score:1) 02They've got it all wrong - 06Human-Pig 'Chimera Embryos' Detailed - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─They should be making humans with a bit of spider DNA!
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course! - 06James Comey to Remain Director of the FBI - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:27] <exec> 08└─Oh stop with the hysterics! It could never happen here! Trump's only been in the office for a week stop freaking out like he's going to ruin the country and turn it into a dictatorship! You liberal progressssives are just butthurt cause you lost! *barf*
[22:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Day Drinking with Khallow! - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:01] <exec> 08└─Heh, I love seeing other people bitchslap that fool. I'm not perfect, sue me :P
[22:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That Fucker is Doomsday Prepping - 06Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:04] <exec> 08└─You have so little perspective... On one hand I envy you for your warm blanket of ignorance and denial. On the other hand I wouldn't trade my knowledge and experience for all the warm fuzzy feels in the world. Social welfare programs are a problem because the wage gap is so bad that a huge portion o...
[22:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:37] <exec> 08└─"Protesting has steadily been equated with terrorism for a while now. Unless we reign in the police " Smashing windows, lighting things on fire, throwing bricks, etc. for political purposes is fscking terrorism. The Police are the ones fighting against that violent political action. Right wingers di...
[22:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:38] <exec> 08└─Those are all crimes, we call it rioting not terrorism. You've already fallen prey to the ideological conditioning that will let the government indiscriminately deal with protests they don't like. We don't have any decent accountability for LEOs, and its already proven that some LEOs will subvert th...
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:35] <exec> 08└─"Fake news is known falsehoods being portrayed as news. For example, the Obama Birther movement, the Kerry Swiftboat smear campaign." Don't forget the "99.9999999999% chance" that Hillary was going to win. Personally, my favorite fake news story of 2016.
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[23:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─I remember hearing about that crash, and wondering how far I'd roll my eyes if that amount of worst-case coincidences were in a Hollywood movie. For those who didn't read the wiki link: - tired guy swerves of the highway with his car+trailer as he was approaching a bridge over tracks - he miss...
[23:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Great... - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─The entire time reading that I was imagining Scrat from Ice Age. It escalates quickly. Only thing missing is a fireball taking out a hovering helicopter.
[23:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I know I know - 06Lawsuit Against Snapchat Dismissed - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:44] <exec> 08└─h. 10:30 AM / Lawsuit sent to snapchat h. 10:35 AM / Lawsuit disappeared Btw why not sue also the car maker, the cellphone maker, the ISP, the GPS system (both implementation and theory), the guy who gave the driving license, the mom who did not hit him enough in the head when he was young? I mean,...
[23:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not surprised - 06Starbucks Misses Revenue Estimates; Mobile App Orders Lead to Congestion, Store Redesign - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:08] <exec> 08└─Just give it to some homeless dude (or dude-ette) begging at the traffic light. Win for you, because you get rid of the card, and a win for them, because they're probably not really homeless anyway and they can stop by there when they get off "work".
[23:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:So... what are its properties? - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:25] <exec> 08└─It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping! [nbc.com]
[23:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Solid Metallic Hydrogen, Once Theory, Becomes Reality -- or Maybe Not? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:44] <exec> 08└─The paper (preprint [arxiv.org]) says solid metallic hydrogen (SMH) may be "metastable" when the pressure is released and cites references (10 & 11). Meta-stable means it's not the lowest energy state, but it could remain SMH for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if this possibility got them some...
[23:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That is the best part about Trump! - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:03] <exec> 08└─You can't change the rules if you are disenfranchised. Deportation is a cruel and unusual punishment. Don't let anyone do that to anybody, legal or not.
[23:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02subsidiarity? - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:14] <exec> 08└─- Why do we have an income tax anyway that gives the feds all this juicy funding to trickle down from big government's golden shower? Why not just keep the tax money locally collected and locally spent?
[23:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Honest Question - 06Current Status of Sanctuary Cities - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─He might be being a smug asshole, but I wonder about it too. Let me try to rephrase in a less assholeish manner: "A city chooses to not disclose their (undocumented/illegal/whatever word you'd please) inhabitants. What benefit is there to the city and the rest of its inhabitants by following this co...
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[23:44:43] <exec> 08└─All those rapes eventually solve the unskilled labor gap caused by liberal millennials never growing up. They're the ones not having kids. They're the ones welcoming in their doom with open arms. They're the ones who won't fight back when it does happen. It maintains order in a properly managed post...
[23:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Hang this bitch! - 06Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:56] <exec> 08└─While I agree that your solution feels good, I would rather not have the accused have to live with that kind of memory, and also would not want them to get further time to serve from that. Vengeance is easy, real justice is harder to do(and rarely 'fully satisfies' our feelings); at the end of the d...
[23:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Being a parent of 3 - 06Wearable App-Connected Baby Monitors Considered Harmful - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:56] <exec> 08└─But there will be a moment when you WILL walk into the baby's room and poke the kid just to hear it cry.. because it was TOO QUIET.
[23:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OMG! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:46] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah, blah. Hillary didn't win. Blah, blah, blah. We hate Trump. Blah, blah, blah.
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