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[00:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:47] <exec> 08└─We can finally relax knowing Facebook will never again abuse personal data.
[00:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:49] <exec> 08└─Is there a poster here who suddenly has a lot of free time on their hands?
[00:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:51] <exec> 08└─It's tough to find a Facebook user around here, much less an employee.
[00:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:53] <exec> 08└─False, it's actually very easy - MDC mentioned using FB, and he's all over the place :)
[00:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:55] <exec> 08└─Facebook accumulates data that can give people near god-like power over other people. Your stalker knows when you're home, when you're out, your favorite music, favorite foods, how you spend your time, who your relatives and loved ones are. Facebook even offers to link to all your accounts online. A...
[00:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:15] <exec> 08└─and the sweat of girls running away from men. So.....volatile organic compounds?
[00:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:07] <exec> 08└─Don't start talking shit, Zumi. Of course I understand Darwin. Which part do you need explained? The part where stupid bastards fucking with heavily armed planes/tanks/troops/ships don't stand a chance of accomplishing anything, other than causing death to rain from the skies? Go watch that video ag...
[00:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:08] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have to be an explosive warhead. A few time getting sprayed with a Thioacetone warhead ought to solve the problem...
[00:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:10] <exec> 08└─In this case, it would be "looses" a missile launcher. As in: "... until someone sets loose a missile launcher."
[00:05:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:28] <exec> 08└─Well, yes...screws and nuts. What did you expect?
[00:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:41] <exec> 08└─It could be a good thing if it gets the juices flowing about how to make telescopes big and cheap from the start, preventing a future telescope design from repeating the mistakes of JWST. The Kilometer Space Telescope [nasa.gov] just got NIAC funding. The Giant Orbiting Astronomical Telescope [insid...
[00:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:13] <exec> 08└─a. something like a telegraph (people pay to send text messages to specific other people) b. something like a stock ticker (wire runs from stock exchange to stock broker, causing a device to print on paper strips) So (a) is two-way communication amongst a bunch endpoints. (a telecommunications servi...
[00:06:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:36] <exec> 08└─Ideology is not a constitutionally-protected category. Sure, the government can't keep you from espousing it, but GoDaddy is not the government and is perfectly within their rights to discriminate based on ideology.
[00:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:11] <exec> 08└─Pointing guns at other people is hateful. It doesn't matter that the gay cake-eaters didn't point the guns themselves. Murder-for-hire is still murder.
[00:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:12] <exec> 08└─what the heck does a "VPS in the cloud" have to do with a domain registrar cancelling a domain name?
[00:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:39] <exec> 08└─What slinches said. You can't beat racism with racism. War lies in that directions. And, you are justifying assholes like Richard Spencer.
[00:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether to mod that funny or troll :)
[00:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:42] <exec> 08└─Sooner or later the toxicities will end up poisoning the group, IMVHO.
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[01:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:57] <exec> 08└─That's because I have a lot of free time: two hours each way to and from work on public transportation. Not having to drive gives me lots of quality time with Facebook.
[01:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:18] <exec> 08└─a handful of ... cities
[01:04:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02 - 06Sprint Announces Highest Profit Ever After Saying It Needs T-Mobile Merger - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:24] <exec> 08└─Sprint may be doing okay financially, but that doesn't mean that they have the resources to compete against Verizon and AT&T. It's entirely possible that they will need to join with T-Mobile to survive long term due to the nature of spectrum auctions and the cost of investing in network infrastructu...
[01:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:44] <exec> 08└─My grill has quick disconnect fittings on the tanks - similar to the fittings on airhoses. The grill stays in the basement (walk out), and the tanks stay outdoors.
[01:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:43] <exec> 08└─No muss, no fuss, no SJW drama, fork it if you don't like it. Compiler doesn't discriminate between white code and black code.
[01:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:06] <exec> 08└─You have obviously never seen how messy a firearm suicide can be. Too small a caliber and you are a vegetable on life support. Miss your brain stem/ Medulla Obbligato (you would be surprised how often that happens) even with a suitable caliber and you also end up as vegetable Too large, especially t...
[01:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think leaving a pretty corpse is my primary concern. Old men don't look good, and especially corpses are not appealing. Stick that into a cremation box and be done. There's no such thing as overkill. If I could sit on a nuke, there's no way the neural signal reaches my brain before I'm a clo...
[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone comment on using a jug of nitrogen... Readily rented from many industrial refrigeration and welding shops. I have heard its a painless and clean way to end the program.
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[02:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:57] <exec> 08└─I thought I remember hearing somewhere that Zuck started FB to get dates, essentially stalking. I say "essentially" because people naively trustingly assume the information they give to websites is somehow private.
[02:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:19] <exec> 08└─That's probably quite true. Some of those organ donors don't always survive some rich bastard's medical tourism. But then there is also the Toilet issue [pri.org]. The air is not the most polluted part of India.
[02:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sprint Announces Highest Profit Ever After Saying It Needs T-Mobile Merger - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:29] <exec> 08└─The one thing they need is spectrum. VZ and AT&T and T-Mobile have the majority of it. They bet on the wrong horse with WiMax instead of LTE exactly at the wrong time. It has cost them ever since. That strategy worked with CDMA so you can not really blame them for doing it again. But this time no on...
[02:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:16] <exec> 08└─What would be the response from a US military base if a foreign country was flying planes that close?
[02:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:50] <exec> 08└─but arguably equal value space/science projects.
[02:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:51] <exec> 08└─Personally, I like to find flathead drivers that fit into Philips screws and Torx drivers for Allen screws.
[02:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─JWST was on its way to the vibrator chamber, probably to find problems like this. Guess what, they found problems like this. I suppose thats why they test.
[02:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they will take down any black lies matter sites, right? Violent riots, arson, etc.
[02:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:54] <exec> 08└─Blunt speaking means I'm going to focus on the goal of the work (we're trying to accomplish something here, more than just having a cool social group, right? Something about a compiler?) rather than on your feelings. And I expect nothing but the same from you. If your submission is garbage I am not...
[02:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:55] <exec> 08└─"So if the work is good, but the guy is just vile, to the point where people don't want to work on the project" How does he even have the opportunity to be so 'vile' if he's working on code? Where does he even find the time? This is not about 'vile' people, it's about socially retarded technically g...
[02:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:57] <exec> 08└─What is, or was, the upskirt project?
[02:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:23] <exec> 08└─I'd comment about it, but I died in the process and forgot my final memories after becoming a ghost.
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─We gonna cut your lawn. And then burn it.
[02:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:13] <exec> 08└─The fitness is already declining because natural selection is practically no longer in effect. It's time for unnatural selection.
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[03:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:46] <exec> 08└─According to Check Point, the issue likely impacts all PDF-viewers for Windows, as all of them will reveal the NTLM credentials.
[03:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:48] <exec> 08└─Found this MS security article [microsoft.com] stating (emphasis mine): Microsoft is releasing an optional security enhancement to NT LAN Manager (NTLM), limiting which network resources various clients in the Windows 10 or the Windows Server 2016 operating systems can use NTLM Single Sign On(SSO) a...
[03:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:50] <exec> 08└─And that obscure option is open it in Linux? ;)
[03:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:58] <exec> 08└─So do you only get to pick one or can you have a choice of many/all?
[03:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:33] <exec> 08└─So officially truth, unofficially smell of racist garbage?
[03:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:31] <exec> 08└─If you believe that there have been air accidents in history resulting from a disoriented or distracted pilot caused by laser pointers then it is your view of the universe that has deviated from reality.
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First-Ever Detection of Helium in an Exoplanet Atmosphere - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:47] <exec> 08└─The apparent size of the planet is due to their huge orbital infrastrucure, the helium is waste from their fusion reactors. Probably also used as reaction mass in their nuclear rockets.
[03:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:39] <exec> 08└─Do you actually dislike the idea of the free communication of ideas between individuals?
[03:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:40] <exec> 08└─Well if he can tolerate a tax collector he can probably tolerate anybody.
[03:08:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:23] <exec> 08└─Personally I'd rather have one asshat that writes good code than 100 nice people that write CoCs and mission statements.
[03:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:14] <exec> 08└─Except Soylent's starts with "Promote Quality, Discourage Crap" and the latest in CoCs can be paraphrased as "Promote Diversity even if it's crap, Discourage White Males regardless of merit".
[03:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry I provided no references, I should have in this case. I just read your response, and I'm about to walk out the door. My first web search turned up nothing at all related to software. My second search found this - https://github.com [github.com] I'm not absolutely certain tha...
[03:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:18] <exec> 08└─I used to do that. Use fat peoples names for reducing variables so I could say decrease Susan, skinny people for counters, Increase Betty, place names for labels. It was always fun to have a GOTO HELL somewhere in the code. Use that crazy chick in accounts name for the random number generator. Good...
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Entropy is present at birth, and ever increasing! No technology (save maybe time crystals) can save you.
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─There are millions of acres of parched desert surrounding the relatively small acreage that was farmed. And speaking as an old desert dweller, kangaroo rats are more than happy to inhabit irrigated land. They loved to get stuck in my garden fence. Here's the real problem: Kangaroo rats are nocturnal...
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[04:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:54] <exec> 08└─Why would I allow a pdf-viewer/reader access to the net? According to Check Point, the issue likely impacts all PDF-viewers for Windows
[04:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:56] <exec> 08└─Linux don't play dat game
[04:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:58] <exec> 08└─It appears this is a flaw in PDFs, but the NTLM data is transmitted by Windows without any user interaction or knowledge.
[04:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:07] <exec> 08└─Nemma mind...got my answer. Reading is fundamental.
[04:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.freecomicbookday.com/Article/116108-FCBD-Site-FAQs [freecomicbookday.com] Different shops have policies on how many free comics you can receive, but you will receive at least one free comic if you enter a participating shop location. Check with your retailer for their policies and plans...
[04:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:42] <exec> 08└─Won't matter in short order. Human pilots won't be needed soon. The next tanker will be drone. the next fighters will be drones. I imagine cargo will be as well. Problem solved.
[04:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:50] <exec> 08└─My favorite example of this is the "Patriot Act". I'd be hard-pressed to think of another bill that goes against the spirit of the United States of America as documented in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Probably the most unpatriotic law ever written.
[04:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:54] <exec> 08└─Far as I've paid attention, I've never heard Spencer do any "direct incitement to violence". Do stupid salutes, yeah. Act like a third-rate media whore, you bet. But incite violence? Seriously?? Betting this is more a case of GoDaddy management getting tired of constant harassment from the punch-a-N...
[04:08:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 971 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:15] <exec> 08└─What kind of bullshit is this? "Up until now this industry has been prejudiced in favor of white heterosexual men. We are going to institute programs to give advantages to people that are not white heterosexual men to bring the industry back into balance." White heterosexual male crybaby: "Reverse d...
[04:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:32] <exec> 08└─> "Asshat" is ill-defined and arguable whereas the CoC is less so. And you think "discrimination" isn't ill-defined? You should be thankful you haven't met one of these mighty warriors. They make Cardinal Richelieu look like a pansy. The Cardinal needed six written words to condemn an honest men; a...
[04:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:33] <exec> 08└─Likewise.
[04:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:20] <exec> 08└─If you think a city would spend money specifically to put fake buttons at pedestrian crossing for psychological effect, you are mistaken. Those buttons were left in place when the signals were switched to a centralized or automated system, since it would cost extra money to remove them. I'm actually...
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[05:03:48] <exec> 08└─Use lava instead - natural and free (where available).
[05:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:46] <exec> 08└─based on the amount of particulate matter under 2.5 micrograms found in every cubic metre of air.
[05:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:45] <exec> 08└─So you *don't* actually know what Darwin meant by "fitness." Thanks for confirming it.
[05:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:54] <exec> 08└─Now I wouldn't go that far. This is just theater but the Democrats actually would restore the Net Neutrality / Net Censorship regime if they could. Unlike the crapweasel Republicans that blowed a lot of smoke up their supporter's butts for years and years of show votes but the second they actually h...
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[05:09:37] <exec> 08└─Wow. They could shorten that a lot by just saying "You must not be a straight white male".
[05:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─""Blunt speaking," is often a euphemism for, "I am not going to take the time to show any respect." " I try to avoid double replying but this just keeps coming back to me. You're RIGHT! And this is why socially retarded but technically adept people manage to coöperate effectively! Because we do NOT...
[05:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:07] <exec> 08└─The universe appears to be a closed system, and it's been steadily increasing in entropy since well before you were born. Where are you planning to live, if not the universe?
[05:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, no I don't see that icon. Strange that.
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[06:04:08] <exec> 08└─Remember the Maine!
[06:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:10] <exec> 08└─International Worker's Week! [theolympian.com]
[06:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for remembering what needed to be remembered. https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[06:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:58] <exec> 08└─If we are going to force every law to be revisited, I think it is better done by the legislature.
[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─Of course. The people who are going from project to project and agitating for CoCs already have the "Diversity and Inclusion" initiatives from those other projects already ready to impose. They have all of the arguments from previous projects how the "Inclusion initiatives" are required to give the...
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[07:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:46] <exec> 08└─If the existing public Service is anything to go by.. Don't. It's like the marriage thing. Go buy a house for someone you hate. Why not just outsource it to Accidenture like the ato is, or ibm like medicare was? Or pick a new company to throw money in to? Please. Can't they just use NASA or somethin...
[07:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:48] <exec> 08└─Australia has: no launch facilities limited cabability to build stuff (as it has to then be shipped to a launch site) some tracking ability (The Dish [imdb.com]) and we also underspend on health, education, and many other things.. [oecd.org] "In space" has become the new "..on a computer"
[07:05:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:35] <exec> 08└─True, but nobody's throwing politicians in jail, so we have to come up with some way to meet the quotas...
[07:05:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:39] <exec> 08└─Our complaint could be what they seek. It tell them that the lasers were not filtered out. This means we are vulnerable to that color of laser. It could be automated. There may be an anti-aircraft gun using that laser to measure for targeting.
[07:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:54] <exec> 08└─28000?!? What about a defend against this kind of attack?
[07:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:56] <exec> 08└─No, he's right. When someone finds that thing all heck is going to break loose. How do you lose a missile launcher? I don't know. Ask a US soldier in Iraq.
[07:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:58] <exec> 08└─Lasers can't take out cameras like that anymore. Doesn't do Jack with current filters. Even if it does do something, it's a camera. Just replace the damaged parts day when a huge frigging laser mounted on a shark is used to burn through it from 50km away. .. Just like in the movies
[07:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:00] <exec> 08└─If it is military action then it is an act of war
[07:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:55] <exec> 08└─That is the idea, no platforming any who refuse to obey the $current_year Narrative. If you are out of step with $current_year you may not: 1. Work 2. Contribute for free 3. Exchange money except by physical means ... and they want to abolish that. 4. Assemble with others who agree with you in a pub...
[07:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─The code you linked above looks like it has been cleaned up from anything naughty which might have once been in it. But who cares anyway? It is an open source project, the people doing it were enjoying themselves and everyone else got free use of the work. Maybe they were trapped in a SJW hellhole w...
[07:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─What's that got to do with it? Place I know put in a blind selection policy to remove discrimination bias in resume selection for job positions. It worked. The selection bias was removed. They yanked it because they found that people were discriminating for women and minority groups. When blind resu...
[07:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that anyone had started checking skin color or what was in your pants when you joined a mailing list and contributed code to a project. Who knew? So everyone is just imagining all the Asian, Indians, Paks and other decidedly non-White people in our industry because bobthecimmarian say...
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[08:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:50] <exec> 08└─-m": During his first term as California's website, he said that California should have its own satellite. Not to be deterred, he got reelected once he was olde, greyye and - allegedly - wiser. When Trump killed NASA's global warming monitoring satellite, Jerry repeated himself but far more assertiv...
[08:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:52] <exec> 08└─FTFM
[08:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:54] <exec> 08└─I used to have respect for you Australians. I really did. But giving seed money to a space agency is completely idiotic. There's no dirt in space. No liquid water. No CO2. You can't plant anything. WTF are they going to do with all those seeds?
[08:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:38] <exec> 08└─Facebook Terminates Engineer
[08:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:04] <exec> 08└─Drone...no onboard human pilot, ergo rules about use of lasers capable of blinding no longer apply, so expect the norm to become 'painting' them with increasingly higher powered beams as they become available in an attempt to 'degrade' the ability of the onboard cameras to do their jobs.
[08:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:19] <exec> 08└─Dude can you like register a login so we have a name we can jeer at? Kkthnxbai
[08:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:21] <exec> 08└─Well, it's hard to say. There were no muslims then so can you really say this? Perhaps Jesus was gay? How wood we know?
[08:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:23] <exec> 08└─Is their brand of hate speech and affirmative action any different from those twits blowing up the middle east who make claims of world domination in the name of Satan/allah?
[08:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:25] <exec> 08└─Only their lies matter?
[08:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:27] <exec> 08└─I seriously can't tell if you are agreeing with Trump or trolling him
[08:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:13] <exec> 08└─Depends on the shit being flung. I work with a bunch of Indians. From India. Some of them are so happy to have a wage good enough to buy a house. Some are pissed that they don't earn 6 digits. Most of them are not worth the wage. Underperformers the company can't get rid of. People who would be earn...
[08:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:14] <exec> 08└─How many?
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─Too late indeed. Microsoft is now basically an Indian IT company. Gates and Balmer cashed out long ago.
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[09:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:57] <exec> 08└─WTF are they going to do with all those seeds?
[09:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─The reality is that these pranksters are putting a lot of people in great danger when they disrupt pilots trying to keep the plane in the air.
[09:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's the difference between looking at someone and poking a stick in their eye.
[09:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:14] <exec> 08└─How seriously hurt has to be someone to justify a killing? Or it all depends on the nationality of the hurt and the hurter?
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[09:06:17] <exec> 08└─Lasers can't take out cameras like that anymore. Doesn't do Jack with current filters.
[09:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:36] <exec> 08└─Alt right who organize demonstrations via their website duh It's not like they would do the same if some muslin living alt lefties did the same
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[10:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:47] <exec> 08└─> "Coal boosters blamed stiffer regulations, calling it a 'war on coal.' But that same time period saw a steep drop in the cost of natural gas and an increase in wind generation. We wanted to know how big a role each of these factors played in driving down the demand for coal." They're missing a key...
[10:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:48] <exec> 08└─Our coal became cheaper. Even with the added cost of transpacific shipping, Trump got China to buy our coal in place of North Korean coal. That puts the hurt on the North Korean economy (it was a big export), helping the USA in negotiations.
[10:04:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:37] <exec> 08└─We can finally relax knowing Facebook will never again abuse personal data.
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[11:04:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:27] <exec> 08└─Why would I allow a pdf-viewer/reader access to the net? According to Check Point, the issue likely impacts all PDF-viewers for Windows
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[12:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe if we probe them with a tiny wire they could act like magical AM radio receivers!!!
[12:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:54] <exec> 08└─Historically, a lot of natural gas has been wasted as a by-product of oil drilling, often it's "flared" on site because there is no nearby pipeline to take it somewhere useful. One research project I heard about from an old friend is using a modified IC engine on-site that runs on the "otherwise was...
[12:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:07] <exec> 08└─... also had beer.
[12:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, nostalgia! Hmm, come to think of it, as I've just been made redundant, and I've recently blagged *all* the 2000 ADs (torrents, Soulseek & aMule) I'm beginning to see a pattern emerge.. D.R. & Quinch/2000 AD Tory Government.. Tanked Economy on shaky grounds On the Dole.. Time to embrace with open...
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[12:06:24] <exec> 08└─http://www.dictionary.com/browse/salubrious [dictionary.com] I don't think it means what you meant, even with single quotes.
[12:07:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:15] <exec> 08└─Don't bring things to a vote just to show who voted for what
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[12:09:15] <exec> 08└─Did they also control for "foreigner effect" by testing historically European non-American names like Astrid or Jaroslaw? No? Right. Either the study is bullshit or you are disingenuously misrepresenting the conclusions.
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[13:04:10] <exec> 08└─One of the annoying necessities to get research finding for what should be basic science is that the military value of it has to be played up so funding can be obtained under a defense program. This approach comes with perils of its own, with one of the biggest being that the military boys are apt t...
[13:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:11] <exec> 08└─... if we only knew what kind of child's toy... and which part. Maybe we could find it also in a dozen of other household places. Sheesh... this article should be from "the poor summary dept."
[13:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:13] <exec> 08└─I suppose it's annoying for a few years until it's convenient for the rest of human existence - microwave ovens, aerosol paints, jet engines, rocket science, etc.
[13:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:15] <exec> 08└─Is a Time Crystal.... a Cube? Ba-dum-tish.
[13:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Australia is close to the US in size, but has only about 1/10th the population. They don't have the tax base to throw around on this. Sounds like they're trying to be practical and are interested in developing only the capability to put satellites in Earth orbit, rather than anything further o...
[13:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:39] <exec> 08└─They're not planning on building or launching rockets at all, they are already talking about contracting that out. It's all about the related tech on the ground and building the actual satellites / space gear.
[13:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:41] <exec> 08└─Personally, I liked him better when he was a website. As a governor he was only ok.
[13:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:01] <exec> 08└─PDF was supposed to be an output format. It never should have introduced any sort of active or executable content.
[13:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:01] <exec> 08└─First: You are entirely correct in addition to being helpful and you are entirely in the right. Second: Directed to this site's sizeable contingent insistent upon on misusing language and calling it "progress": Shall we now modify "salubrious" to mean any random thing as well?
[13:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:22] <exec> 08└─..as GoDaddy are claiming that the site breached their perfectly legal AUP re. incitement to violence rather than an ideological reason as justification for the termination of service. If Richard Spencer wanted to challenge it on ideological grounds using the gay cake as a precedent then he'd need t...
[13:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:01] <exec> 08└─Were they getting stuck in your fence after being declared "extinct"?
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[14:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Giant Virus Found in the Waters of Oahu, Hawaii - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:45] <exec> 08└─this big [wikia.com] or this big [wikipedia.org]?
[14:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:57] <exec> 08└─This complaint comes up a lot but the summary here doesn't state "They could have defense applications" but "The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced a program to fund more research into time crystal systems" which is just factual. And they do have obvious defense applications, because if t...
[14:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed, lousy summary, but from the article: monoammonium phosphate (MAP) crystals.... are considered so easy to grow that they are sometimes included in crystal growing kits aimed at youngsters
[14:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:09] <exec> 08└─Start a Strategic Natural Gas Reserve. Pay above market price to have it stored on site temporarily. Pick it up with trucks and trains.
[14:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:10] <exec> 08└─I have never really compared the energy extracted from coal, to energy from natural gas, or other sources. But, I grew up in coal cracker country, in western Pennsylvania. There is both soft and hard coal in the hills. We had a vein of nice soft coal running through the pasture, exposed by an epheme...
[14:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:28] <exec> 08└─They could launch cheap, small satellites using the nearby Rocket Lab in New Zealand.
[14:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Space Agency Gets $50 Million in Seed Funding - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:29] <exec> 08└─They could make tahini [wikipedia.org]
[14:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:38] <exec> 08└─No clear evidences, but let's destroy markets: Tourism, sunscreeners, retailers. Will jobs, people's income be affected? So what? They can't do nothing to stop it. What a wonderful feeling of power!
[14:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:52] <exec> 08└─Why would I allow a pdf-viewer/reader access to the net?
[14:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:05] <exec> 08└─Anyone else having problems? Tried putting in my address and it errored. My zip code gave me a map centered on the right location (town in New Mexico), but listed only a single store, in Memphis, Tennessee, at a distance of 0* miles. Considering that I'm substantially closer to California, that resu...
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─In nature, traits that contribute to survival to sexual maturity, and reproduction, are selected for. Traits that don't aid in survival to sexual maturity tend to be weeded out. Now - I'm a big, bad, terrist mofo, and I'm pissed at the USA. So, I go out whenever possible, just to fuck with them. I'v...
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[15:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A New Giant Virus Found in the Waters of Oahu, Hawaii - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:45] <exec> 08└─Was it written in Visual Basic or C Hash?
[15:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:59] <exec> 08└─When I first saw the story in Google News, it was something along the lines of "Time Crystals Found in Fertilizer" (bullshit).
[15:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:11] <exec> 08└─The Simcity 2013 video game http://simcity.wikia.com [wikia.com] may also be partially to blame. If you plop a wind farm in-game, your city magically has power without pollution. If you plop a solar farm in-game, your city magically has power without pollution. If you plop a...
[15:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:12] <exec> 08└─Everything is a question of scale - if you live on a bigger than average piece of land and have a seam of soft coal near the surface, it makes sense to use that while you can. While present day economics support demolition of mountains to ship coal 12 time zones so that cities on the other side can...
[15:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe the burden of proof is backwards, and the standard for chemicals should be that things like sunscreen ingredients are used only when they are shown to be safe, rather than banned when they are shown to be unsafe.
[15:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturday, 5 May 2018: Free Comic Book Day - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:07] <exec> 08└─It correctly found several nearby locations using my zip code. For you I would just look up "comic book shop near me" in Google Maps [google.com]. Most of them should have websites with FCBD info on them.
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:34] <exec> 08└─HUMAN males can give birth in Australia? OMG...
[15:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─Don't know about you, but I am building a life boat to surf out of this universe info the next when it collapses during the next big bang I might even live long enough to use it
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[16:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Cancels GeForce Partner Program, Complains About "Rumors, Conjecture and Mistruths" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:46] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[16:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Giant Virus Found in the Waters of Oahu, Hawaii - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:54] <exec> 08└─No idea. I haven't seen the source to Windows 10.
[16:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:10] <exec> 08└─Ah, here it is. [gizmodo.com] If I'm not mistaken, Gizmodo is a top destination for Gawker refugees.
[16:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:24] <exec> 08└─Business is war. -- Jack Tramiel
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[17:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:12] <exec> 08└─Damn, if you had to beat me on the joke, at least you could have done it well!
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─We've always been at business with Eastasia.
[17:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─A quick Gogle search turned up this https://oceanservice.noaa.gov [noaa.gov] Looks like there might be some clear evidence to warrant this action by Hawaii.
[17:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:12] <exec> 08└─Wow, crazy mods. How is that a troll? The point was the OP advocated murder, quite a lot of hurt to put on someone. That was the premise.
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[18:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:45] <exec> 08└─While flat earthers seem to trust and support scientific methods, what they don't trust is scientists, and the established relationships between "power" and "knowledge".
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:46] <exec> 08└─The earth is a sphere but the oceans are flat. Imagine standing on a grape floating in a cup and its obvious.
[18:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:00] <exec> 08└─Except there is clear evidence that sunscreen use prevents deaths. Sunscreen is a critical safety product for anyone with a light complexion. We're not talking about some pointless product here. Because of that, whether it kills coral is secondary. What matters is, how effective can sunscreen be wit...
[18:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:18] <exec> 08└─*rolls eyes* If he already had kids then, newsflash, he was sexually mature and already reproduced. Evolution is not some teleological force. From a purely reproductive standpoint, the "terr'ists" are *more* fit than most Americans, and I have to wonder sometimes if there's some kind of subconscious...
[18:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:19] <exec> 08└─No, the use of the word 'salubrious' here to describe a pub/bar where you're likely to have at least one fight a night heralded by the words 'are you looking at my wife|girlfriend|sister?' was perfectly correct. I do know what the word means, but in context here it's an obvious example of the delibe...
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[19:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:46] <exec> 08└─So flat ocean theory? Gotta get on that naming committee they're just confusing everyone.
[19:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:47] <exec> 08└─Also, the key is in your last sentance. You are viewing the world through eyeballs, ie spheres, which skews your perspective.
[19:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it's quite difficult to directly see that the Earth isn't flat. It's reasonably easy to show this via complex reasoning, some ancient Greeks managed this, but the direct observations don't suffice. You've got to reason correctly from them. And a weather balloon wouldn't suffice. I'm n...
[19:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:52] <exec> 08└─Which is why you can see Hawaii from California.
[19:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:54] <exec> 08└─You can see the curvature of the earth from high flying aircraft. I used to fly at 45000'-50000' and the earth's curvature is easily visible. And, having flown circumnavigational flights (not all in a single flight of course) I can also safely say that you don't fall off the edge of a 'flat earth' e...
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[19:03:56] <exec> 08└─Going for the chuckle, but hitting the mark. Because cameras and balloons work even over oceans. Oddly, the ocean is one of the easiest places to see the curvature - with the naked eye.
[19:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:58] <exec> 08└─I figured aristarchus would be the first one behind the flat earthers. I mean, it's the most masterfully crafted trolling movement the earth has ever seen.
[19:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:01] <exec> 08└─And a weather balloon wouldn't suffice. I'm not certain that one of NASA's high altitude balloons would suffice, but it might.
[19:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:03] <exec> 08└─IIRC the Greek reasoning involved the length of the shadow of a tall sun dial at noon at several locations hundreds of miles apart.
[19:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:05] <exec> 08└─California didnt exist until 1850 and Hawaii until even later in 1959, so I dont see how you could use that as an example.
[19:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:07] <exec> 08└─But, but, you /did/ fall off the earth and simply landed slightly offset from the previous position in a vector direction and an infinitesimal delta-time calculation. You only need to accelerate to the proper speed and you will definitely fall off for an arbitrary direction of "off". See, it is flat...
[19:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:10] <exec> 08└─So you basically admit that to see the supposed curvature you need to use looked through a curved object like a camera lens, balloon, or eyeball?
[19:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:12] <exec> 08└─a reflection of our increasing distrust in scientific institutions
[19:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:14] <exec> 08└─It's not trolling. It's a scam. Why else would people go through such great lengths and efforts to launch rockets and organize conventions. These guys are using their conspiracy to sell crap. Just like the rest of the so called "nutters" like Alex Jones. They aren't nutters. They are great actors an...
[19:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:16] <exec> 08└─That is all well and good to say, but it is so very far from true. [Science experiments...]
[19:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:18] <exec> 08└─Which is why you can see Hawaii from California.
[19:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:21] <exec> 08└─You really gotta get out more.
[19:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:23] <exec> 08└─This one just won't effing die will it. That line is from Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey != Sarah Palin, she just played her on TV.
[19:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Cancels GeForce Partner Program, Complains About "Rumors, Conjecture and Mistruths" - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:32] <exec> 08└─which one?
[19:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:12] <exec> 08└─I have never really compared the energy extracted from coal, to energy from natural gas
[19:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:42] <exec> 08└─I can't see that evidence. common chemical in many sunscreen lotions and cosmetics is highly toxic to juvenile corals and other marine life
[19:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, a single study is not very useful, especially nowadays. It is especially not conclusive. If the bar was merely to ban any product that a paper or two claimed was hazardous, no products would exist. "Further study is needed."
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[20:04:04] <exec> 08└─It's not trolling. It's a scam. Why else would people go through such great lengths and efforts to launch rockets and organize conventions. These guys are using their conspiracy to sell crap. Just like the rest of the so called "nutters" like Alex Jones. They aren't nutters. They are great actors an...
[20:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:09] <exec> 08└─https://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html [phys.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:11] <exec> 08└─GP anon didn't say that Sarah Palin said it, but you reflexively defended her. Could you be Bristol Palin's new lover? Or Trig's father?
[20:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:13] <exec> 08└─Calm down. Of course it was Tina Fey. The fact that these flat earthers had a three day convention deserves commentary just as serious.
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:16] <exec> 08└─Apparently you haven't met a real flat earther, they are serious. Maybe some portion of the attendees are jokers, but definitely not all.
[20:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:18] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck, all flat things are actaully curved! The eye ball only makes them look flat!!!
[20:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:20] <exec> 08└─The proof is in the center of washington dc. The washington monument is a giant sundial and the reflecting pond the perfectly flat surface needed for accurate measurement. Reflecting pond is made of what?
[20:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, the image on the retina is inverted by the lens.
[20:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:25] <exec> 08└─Clever that they organized it in Birmingham, far inland in England. If they'd done the conference in e.g. Plymouth instead, then they'd have to make sure none of the conference goers saw any sailing boats coming in to harbour. (If they were sailing out, they could still conclude that the Earth is fl...
[20:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:27] <exec> 08└─The eyes see the truth and the brain flips the image. The ears hear everything and brain filters most of it out. Everything we 'know' really is a lie! A fantasy created by a clump of nerves.
[20:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, someone hops into a thread to defend Palin? Jmo jmo jmo, you really should get laid sometime if you're that desperate. You can have a guaranteed good time in Nevada I hear, set you back less than the number of dates it would probably take to find someone willing to sleep with a RINO.
[20:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:31] <exec> 08└─Heliocentrism is more counterintuitive, you need a lot of sky observation and a dramatic change of point of view. But spherical Earth is almost evident, you don't need a very advanced technology. It is known since ancient Greeks. They even calculated the radius with an error of 15%. Greeks, like man...
[20:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:34] <exec> 08└─Ten gets you one J-Mo is an "incel."
[20:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:36] <exec> 08└─I see Poe's Law has been lost on you...many flat earthers may only be pretending to be idiots, but all the same, the real idiots have stumbled into their midst.
[20:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:38] <exec> 08└─I'm telling ya, man, her name is Cindy, she's not your "earth mother", and if you don't stop staring at her from that basement window, we're going to have to make you stay in the shed out back again.
[20:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:40] <exec> 08└─You know those boats were almost sunk, and they were bailing as they came in towards port, right? RIGHT?
[20:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:42] <exec> 08└─Speakers recently flew in from around (or perhaps, across?) the earth for a three-day event held in Birmingham:
[20:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:45] <exec> 08└─Heliocentrism isn't really a scientific truth but a stupid talking point anyway. For example as far as we know the universe has no "magic special point", so you can put your reference wherever you want without the physics changing even one bit. Also the sun isn't remotely the center because it also...
[20:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Giant Virus Found in the Waters of Oahu, Hawaii - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:02] <exec> 08└─Not totally alive, not totally dead...will they be the last non-organisms standing one day? Anybody know of good sci-fi centered around viruses in the same way Beowulf's Children was centered around natural selection?
[20:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, China has a lot of coal. The dirty brown type. [airclim.org] The same type Germany is STILL burning in increasing tonnage while telling the world its going solar. Germany is still the #1 producer of Lignite coal, [wikipedia.org] with China a close second. What China (and other Asian countr...
[20:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:37] <exec> 08└─Methane doesn't have the same density as coal. It's full of hydrogen, the lightest element. Methane also gets used up just sitting in place. You have to refrigerate it. No amount of pressure will liquefy it at typical temperatures, and the pressure needed to reach liquid-equivalent density is comple...
[20:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:39] <exec> 08└─net energy output does depend upon the efficiency of the machine
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[21:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:30] <exec> 08└─the Earth is, but as an engineer with a mathematics degree, I know what the math is to make stuff work. So show me the math or STFU.
[21:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:32] <exec> 08└─And I'm positive that wasn't the curvature of the 'Earth' he was staring at! 8)))
[21:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:34] <exec> 08└─The Earth is the center of the (Earth's) observable universe.
[21:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:36] <exec> 08└─Yup. If they REALLY wanted to prove one way or the other, the scientific way, cheaply, would be take the grand Poooo-bah up in a jet and fly him around the world, refuelling on the go. Fly the equator and the Greenwich line (??) and let him see for himself. But that would be too scientific a method,...
[21:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:38] <exec> 08└─The true believers would probably just say their inbound flight to the UK was one part of a circle/ellipse drawn on a flat plane and their outbound flight back home the other part. The rest (probably the majority) are almost certainly only in it for a few beers, a little socialising, and a laugh at...
[21:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Cancels GeForce Partner Program, Complains About "Rumors, Conjecture and Mistruths" - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:48] <exec> 08└─Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat [theregister.co.uk] Last month, some of those who had complained claimed in online forums that they had been contacted by regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Commission, and h...
[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Point me to a non-toxic, transparent* adhesive that doesn't break apart in sea-water but washes out with drinking water and soap and I'll show you a sunscreen suitable for the beach. To be clear, sunscreens lotions are a con. UV radiation is exactly what gives you a tan so they're not suitable for t...
[21:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:00] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your disagreement. Your argument is based on the notion that there is a specific number of problems, and by finding this one there is one fewer problem to surface after launch. The I don't think this is the best way to look at it. The number of mission compromising problems is unknow...
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[22:03:48] <exec> 08└─This all seems to good to be true. A few months ago, Kim Jong-Un and Trump were boasting about nuclear buttons, and now, suddenly, North Korea promises to play nice, not to make nuclear weapons, and want to reunite with South Korea? I sincerely hope it's all true, but I find it very hard to believe....
[22:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─I agree. Trust the North Koreans and die, perhaps literally.
[22:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not an optimist on these sorts of things but things definitely seem to be improving. I'll take more world peace -- even if it comes in purely symbolic increments -- over less world peace any day of the week.
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─...for both sysadmins in North Korea.
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─This all seems to good to be true.
[22:04:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:19] <exec> 08└─That is all well and good to say, but it is so very far from true. [Science experiments...]
[22:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:46] <exec> 08└─The curvature of the Earth is easy to see. Go to a coastline, preferably one with shipping traffic nearby. Look at a distant object out at sea - an oil rig, a wind turbine, even a skyscraper on a distant coast. Notice how the BOTTOM of the object is being obscured by the sea, way past any tide, wave...
[22:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:47] <exec> 08└─I always wondered how they would make technologies like GPS work, which is based on the "assumption" that the planet is a sphere. I would love to hear an explanation from flat earthers on how that would work in their models.
[22:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:49] <exec> 08└─Mathematical calculatuons are used to convert between curved and flat surfaces. These are called "map projections".
[22:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:52] <exec> 08└─Go to a coastline, preferably one with shipping traffic nearby. Look at a distant object out at sea - an oil rig, a wind turbine, even a skyscraper on a distant coast. Notice how the BOTTOM of the object is being obscured by the sea, way past any tide, wave or other movement. You're either suggestin...
[22:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:54] <exec> 08└─as they came in towards port, right? RIGHT?
[22:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:56] <exec> 08└─Palin said: “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
[22:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:58] <exec> 08└─Here are some "explanations": https://www.bungie.net [bungie.net] https://www.theflatearthsociety.org [theflatearthsociety.org] (Warning: your brain may hurt after reading these.)
[22:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:00] <exec> 08└─That line is certainly from SNL, but the reason it was funny and remains in the public consciousness is that Palin said something similar, but with a lot less hyperbole: "They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska” https://...
[22:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:03] <exec> 08└─But, but, that curvature has gravitational pull!
[22:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:05] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the stupid factor, it's not something flat-earthers have a monopoly on. Creationists, SJW's and Marxists also have a tremendous ability to ignore any and all evidence that does not support their hypothesis. I do wonder what Flat Earthers make of heliocentrism but in the broader c...
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─> UV radiation is exactly what gives you a tan so they're not suitable for tanning Tanning oil exists. Don't expect to tan while wearing sunscreen. > The ones that actually stay on your skin and filter-out UV will use adhesives that block skin pores so putting them on your face will break out zits....
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:32] <exec> 08└─> an alternative must be found before it can be banned. Ingredients with broad-spectrum protection include benzophenones (oxybenzone), cinnamates (octylmethyl cinnamate and cinoxate), sulisobenzone, salicylates, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, avobenzone (Parsol 1789) and ecamsule (Mexoryl SX).
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii to Ban Sunscreens Reportedly Toxic to Coral, Australia Reluctant to Follow - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─> It looks that nowadays overreacting is the new rule. Someone wrote "let's destroy markets: Tourism, sunscreeners, retailers." I think that's an overreaction, because there are other ingredients that can be used in sunscreens, and there are sunscreens already on the market that use those other ingr...
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─Do you actually dislike the idea of the free communication of ideas between individuals?
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[23:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:02] <exec> 08└─I am really honored frankly to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully, getting rid of this issue. We have to look at it, we have to see is it real, is it proper, what's on it, but I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really proud, I am really honored. So many people are thanking and h...
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:03] <exec> 08└─I'd never though I'd say this, but with all the childish crap coming from Trump, Kim Jong-Un seems to be the mature and responsible one here.
[23:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:05] <exec> 08└─The DPRK's usual modus operandi is to act contrite, make some small concesssions, and offer a few major promises to come later in return for easing of sanctions, etc. then, once it gets what it wants, reneges on the major promises and often rolls back some of the concessions as well. So far all the...
[23:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:08] <exec> 08└─Kim has only a narrow window of opportunity here. He is not clearly related to anything heinous
[23:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:10] <exec> 08└─It seems more surprising than it is because the media is more worried about drama than accuracy. They paint Kim as a tin-hat dictator who inherited the country, well there's some truth to that. But he's also someone that spent much of his youth attending exclusive private schools in Switzerland wher...
[23:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:12] <exec> 08└─That's where "clearly" comes into play. Wrt Obama, Kim is not in position to define what words mean. He has to play on someone's else field by someone else's rules. Goalposts have little feet and can move. The field is full of remotely controlled mines. His best bet is to discuss reunification only...
[23:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:12] <exec> 08└─I'll have you know starboard is RIGHT, you insensitive clod!
[23:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:13] <exec> 08└─You don't need math. Without noteworthy outside influence, any large enough mass will become spherical on its own.
[23:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:15] <exec> 08└─I can't tell if you legitimately think you provided a valid reason for why humans would be unable to tell if something was spherical or flat. In any case there are ways to measure or observe the curvature of a surface via math. The distances traveled along the surface of a sphere or a plane when mov...
[23:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:17] <exec> 08└─According to one article I read recently, one of the more popular Flat-Earther theories about circumnavigation is that space/time is warped around the edge in a manner that creates a wrap-around effect identical to the one seen in Pac-Man. Seeing that brought to mind the old quote “if Pac-Man had...
[23:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, flat earthers do seem to place a lot of emphasis and priority on scientific methods and, in particular, on observable facts.
[23:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:22] <exec> 08└─In light of your stern words, I think I'm going to have to bow out of this conversation.
[23:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:24] <exec> 08└─Or just watch the Sun cross the sky.
[23:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:26] <exec> 08└─Nuh uh. "Perspective," apparently.
[23:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention for My Research – Here's What I Learnt - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:29] <exec> 08└─Occam's Razor. If you model the Earth, Sun, and nearby planets against the Earth as a reference point, the equations are horrendous (ever heard of epicycles?) and very inaccurate to boot, and there are no good physical theories that explain the model, again without huge amounts of complexity and dem...
[23:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Giant Virus Found in the Waters of Oahu, Hawaii - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:48] <exec> 08└─Hawaii, they want to ban the good kind of sunscreen. Because they say it hurts the coral. And we saw the week before last, Fake News Nature says the coral is dieing because of global warming. But many people are saying, maybe it's viruses that are killing the coral.
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Gas Prices, Not 'War on Coal,' Were Key to Coal Power Decline - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─Did you not notice the /g (meaning per gram) in the numbers from the linked pdf? That compensates for the differing densities. The energy output is for "one gram" of each.
[23:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─it'd probably be a better use of a terminator to aim for the top of the org chart than just some underling.
[23:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:10] <exec> 08└─based on the amount of particulate matter under 2.5 micrograms found in every cubic metre of air
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