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[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─The US hegemony is threatened, and Trump is rattling his sword. And, I can't say whether he's doing right or wrong. The time for sword rattling may very well be past. Those swords should have been rattling in the 1990's when Clinton was busily giving China a leg up. The Assassin's Mace seems to have...
[00:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:40] <exec> 08└─And what I know is, nearly ALL the major players in the car industry cheated with respect to emissions and fuel economy testing.
[00:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─Not that synthetics might not have gotten a benefit, but the taxation on hemp started much earlier and was due to the southern cotton/textile industry not wanting hemp, which could be grown with less labor, poorer soil, and in harsher northern climates to take away from its financial position. Hemp...
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─Honda's CVCC was a form of lean burn engines, and in fact didnt' require catalytic converters until they were mandated in... 79? 80? All of the modern ultra efficient engines are also superlean burning engines in low load cruise modes. HOWEVER, due to the the mandated catalytic converter requirement...
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─It wasn't just DuPont. Hearst had huge timber investments that he could use for paper if hemp was outlawed, and the tobacco companies didn't like hemp competing with tobacco.
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─To something like 7% of the male population and 1% of the female, red is a rather dull color. Orange is much brighter. You are a clueless interior decorator. Or possibly a fashion designer.
[00:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:29] <exec> 08└─Same with the extended battery option. You pay more for more capacity, but it's the same battery with different software.
[00:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─The human brain is such a hive-mind, consisting of many cooperating neurons.
[00:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:49] <exec> 08└─The real aim of content hosting platforms is to disappear content they don't like, such as…working class perspectives that will allow the strikes and protests to organize and gain strength.
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[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:59] <exec> 08└─China is a state full of amoral people who do things like sell pet food which contains melamine and sell drywall made from toxic waste. Mark my words, China is the enemy of the western world and it will get worse.
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─Chances are that we will see Chinese sanctions against the USA.
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─Amoral people. Yes, no, maybe . . . The Chinese have just recently been pulled out of the 12th or maybe the 15th century. I mean the general population, the average Yee. Government officials and employees, as well as the academics, have had it pretty good for the past fifty years, but the population...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─Meet the New Boss — Same as the Old Boss
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─I think a lot depends on which tap the water comes from. Most municipal water in the western world is so full of chlorine, ammonia and other sterilizing agents that I'm more concerned about putting those in my body than any biological threat. The biggest biological threat in drinking water is usuall...
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─can the municipality be sued
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─The sinuses are a very scary place. Scarier still, some surgeons use an approach through the sinuses to do some brain surgeries - and apparently they have a high rate of success with less side affects than other approaches and a very low complication from infection rate. On the other hand, it has al...
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─There once was a popular nasal spray called "Afrin" or somesuch - I knew somebody who lived under a bunch of oak trees he was allergic to and he was literally addicted to the Afrin sprays, unable to quit. Sterile water was 95% as effective, but he had a psychological component involved I think that...
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─Who's to say she wasn't murdered by her own government... making it look like an infection. Most governments do murder their own citizens and also citizens of other countries, so keep an open mind.
[01:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:35] <exec> 08└─It might work wonders. Not only by clearing the junk out for a while, but making the new accumulation clear easier and not providing a good home for a chronic low level infection. Use moderately salty water. Personally I just sniff it up from a juice glass, there's no need for special equipment. BOI...
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:37] <exec> 08└─Part was probably psychological, but there is a significant rebound effect [wikipedia.org] to contend with as well.
[01:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─Greed lead to this situation, of course. But now we have those half million cars that can be made street legal just by re-flashing their ECU. They wouldn't have the original performance, but there are also thousands of lower income people who would find them a distinct step up from their old beater...
[01:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:03] <exec> 08└─Were those vehicles harmful? That hasn't been shown.
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─Seatbelts were standard equipment in automobiles long, long, LONG before government mandated their use.
[01:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─Got one. Had it "fixed". Drop in mileage is minimal, no really noticeable difference in performance. Of course, I drive like a miler, and get higher than the original estimated MPG, and +50mpg on road trips. So who is contributing more to Global Warming?
[01:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─"Because Mom is so short she has to sit on a pillow when she drives." But her legs are quite long?
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:12] <exec> 08└─It's your ignorance that is flapping in the wind, little anonymous coward. https://itstillruns.com [itstillruns.com] Early Seat Belts The UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center reports that seat belts first appeared in American cars in the early 1900s, but they were popula...
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[01:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yes that's a very good point. As is one hemisphere of a brain. As is a small part of that. Yet I feel that my consciousness is centered on one whole human brain. Not a particular half. Not distributed between two or three communicating brains. My neurons are all connected to other people's neurons v...
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[01:36:48] <exec> 08└─Being n-ass-a, they cannot entertain the idea that aliens do not have to have physical bodies like we think we do. They might travel through the mind, like a thought(s) traveling through space. The boxed-in thinking of people who should have open minds is one reason we are still stuck on this rock d...
[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─I've been pondering how to game online with much less dependence on a center. Might still need something for the players to meet and start games, but after that, playing the game should not depend on a central server being accessible and up. There are broadcast and multicast protocols in IP, and dig...
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[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─I've personally experienced Chinese people behaving in unethical ways in the US. It is part of their culture. Money is all that matters. If they can screw you and get away with it, for many Chinese it's a no-brainer to do so. Ask ANYONE who has rented from a Chinese person in the Bay Area. You'll ge...
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─Bay area? I presume you mean Gay Bay, in California? And, you're attempting to convince me that you have higher morals than Chinese people? Face it, dude, you're just another xenophobe.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─The arrest is outrageously dumb. The Chinese do take this kind of stuff personally, and if the US doesn't resolve this real quick, US businesspeople, students and tourists are going to be Red Cornered all over the People's Republic. And China has the muscle to keep them jailed despite America's bitc...
[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─At least she is not just missing with no due process. China really doesn't have any say in this. They regularly just snatch their own citizens with no trial and no oversight. Hypocrisy was probably invented in china.
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─What goes for the US goes for their running dogs, the Canadians, too.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─In defense of the Chinese, I'd say a lot probably has to do if they grew up in Mao's hellhole. It was a dog eat dog society, and you did what you had to to get ahead. If you want to see authentic Chinese, go to Taiwan. Other Chinese run societies like Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore each have notably...
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─FTA: Neti pots are used to pour saline into one nostril and out of the other to irrigate the sinuses, usually to fight allergies or infections.
[02:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile half a million people die from acknowledged "medical errors" every year in the US: https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] That doesn't include the people dying from over/under-dosing their prescriptions, people who die from ex...
[02:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:34] <exec> 08└─That bit has been in TFS all along...
[02:34:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
[02:35:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:15] <exec> 08└─Building the vehicles was probably more environmentally significant than the difference between claimed and actual pollutant emissions over the life of the vehicle. It makes sense to punish the company, but it doesn't make sense to compound the environmental hit in the process.
[02:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:03] <exec> 08└─You are conflating two separate issues: 1. When did fitment of seat belts as standard equipment become mandatory 2. When was wearing seat belts mandatory. As far as I can tell, the fitment of seat belts started to become mandatory in 1961 (Wisconsin) and was fully mandatory in 1966. In 1961, the fit...
[02:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think I conflated anything. Please re-read my original post - https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The post I replied to implied that seat belts wouldn't exist without government action. The fact is, seat belts existed long...
[02:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:07] <exec> 08└─What do you think ABS does? ABS is cadence braking at a far higher rate than any human could possibly achieve.
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:09] <exec> 08└─They could at least recycle the tires. The metal is worth recycling. Batteries. How much can a car be broken down by a recycling plant? Or was it deemed too expensive to do so?
[02:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the problem is that ABS is doing it TOO often for best effect under the conditions being argued about. The human can make judgment calls; the software.. maybe not.
[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:13] <exec> 08└─That's essentially what they are doing. Volkswagon had a hard deadline to get all of the cars fixed or off the road, and not enough resources to fix all of them in that short a time. So they bought the cars back and stored them until they could fix and resell them. Notice those gaps in the rows of c...
[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─...than just slapping accurate MPG numbers on the window sticker and selling them, to be used rather than wasted?? it's not like they're bad polluters compared to other vehicles; it's just that they couldn't make the absurd standards imposed. And what about the environmental cost of everything that...
[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─So what color were they then before?
[02:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:56] <exec> 08└─This. It proves my point that ending climate change is equal to ending racism.
[02:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, the No True Irishman fallacy rears it's ginger head... I for one welcome our miniscule overlords.
[02:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:59] <exec> 08└─Also, where is the evidence of tiny beings?
[02:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:01] <exec> 08└─Tardigrades?
[02:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:04] <exec> 08└─based on what I currently know
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─Don't listen to the voices in your head! They'll just get you into trouble. Listen instead to CNN, PBS, and Al Jazeera. They will steer you towards the light.
[02:40:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:20] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you were surprised. You must not have paid attention in history classes. Authoritarianism is orthogonal to the left-right spectrum. Both sides contains anarchists and both sides contain those that worship power. IIRC the first socialized medicine policy in the modern world was initiated by...
[02:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─How many buttplugs can you simutaneously insert? We need to find out man!
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[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─Separately, does anyone know if the use of artificial sweeteners reduces the risk of dental cavities?
[03:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:54] <exec> 08└─Sugar-- any carbohydrate that has been broken down into sugar in your mouth, to be more precise -- is the fuel for cavity causing bacteria that release acid as a waste product. Of course fake sweeteners lower your cavity risk!
[03:34:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1049 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─Amoral people. Yes, no, maybe . . . The Chinese have just recently been pulled out of the 12th or maybe the 15th century. I mean the general population, the average Yee. Government officials and employees, as well as the academics, have had it pretty good for the past fifty years, but the population...
[03:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─"Oh, yes, our great, free country has no problems with disappearing people [wikipedia.org], completely skipping due process [wikipedia.org], or policing our citizens with no oversight." he said as he hefted a giant-ass boulder inside his pleasantly transparent home, ready to toss. [wikipedia.org] An...
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:18] <exec> 08└─China today is very similar to the U.S. in the 1930s. The U.S. ended up with food safety laws because of the shenanigans during that period. Chemists trying to make spoiled meat appear and smell ok enough to sell, sawdust added to bread, etc. The Chinese people are aware of the issues, and as the mi...
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─I've personally experienced Chinese people behaving in unethical ways in the US. It is part of their culture. Money is all that matters.
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─Want some more medical gore? Here you are https://www.icij.org [icij.org]
[03:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people seem incapable of reading beyond headlines now. That 140-character limit for so long in some social media seems to have rotted people's brains irrevocably. Next up -- comments from people who can't even be bothered to read to the end of the headline: "Huh, so this Neti pot an and ameoba...
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[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─. In my opinion, it seems that the laws trailed well behind efforts by the insurance industry, and auto manufacturer's willingness to install those seat belts
[03:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:35] <exec> 08└─Hello VW. This is terrible and dumping these cars just makes a big mistake even bigger. However I offer a solution, inspired by a recent move made by a little British car company you may have heard of - Aston Martin. They are offering current owners a rebuild to EV. So... fill it in yourselves, you...
[03:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:37] <exec> 08└─> ABS is cadence braking at a far higher rate than any human could possibly achieve. Sort of, but you do *not* have the whole story. Deformable surfaces like gravel, slush over ice, mud over clay, possibly loose sand on pavement, all require a different braking strategy than normal hard road surface...
[03:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:25] <exec> 08└─There are supposed to be Snapdragon and Ryzen-based Chromebooks coming at some point. It should be trivial to replace ChromeOS on these if you want. Now a RISC-V laptop would be a neat trick.
[03:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─I keep telling myself that, but we never listen. :)_
[03:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:37] <exec> 08└─Washington's army during the revolutionary war engaged in forced conscription (at the point of a musket). And, yeah Washington was just another rich parasite*; the revolutionary war, as war always is, was for the benefit of the rich. * Washington's wealth was at the expense of a great army of men an...
[03:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:36] <exec> 08└─But I'll still be using my trusty old shovel to break ground, thank you.
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[04:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't this old news?
[04:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─I like having an energy drink every now and then. Should I drink the 290 calorie one or the sucralose one? Why aren't there unsweetened energy drinks? Why can't we just add caffeine to those flavor waters? Not everything needs to taste sweet.
[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─There is nothing new under the sun. But there are some new show [netflix.com]s about it.
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:35] <exec> 08└─Low-calorie sweeteners must work. President Trump drinks 8-12 Diet Cokes per day and he's the healthiest president in history, at 6'3" and a svelte 239 pounds. Which incidentally is the exact same height and weight as Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo (pictured below). https://goo.gl
[04:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:37] <exec> 08└─I don't have time to dig through the stats here. I have no doubt that sweeteners may have some bad effects. But I wondered how they controlled for the fact that it's likely that people who are already using sweeteners likely are already more obese to begin with. So I tracked down the initial conditi...
[04:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─(In last sentence, I meant "divergent physical characteristics"...damn autocorrect.)
[04:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─Unsweetened tea. Plenty of brands, and most of them taste good and refreshing IMO. There should be some vending machines that dispense them.
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─There are also some caffeinated water brands out there: https://goavitae.com [goavitae.com] https://waterjoe.com [waterjoe.com]
[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:46] <exec> 08└─Read the labels. Most of those iced teas have added sugar in them. (Probably HFCS in the USA.)
[04:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:41] <exec> 08└─Who's to say she didn't kill herself with the bacteria in order to get back at her South Italian lesbian lover with green eyes and that gimpy leg she found so attractive who works at the neti pot plant, who just dumped her.
[04:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─Guessing you didn't check the price of that Aston-Martin EV conversion, did you? It's many times the original price of any of the polluting VW cars.
[04:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:23] <exec> 08└─A company spokesperson said that the vehicles are "being stored on an interim basis and routinely maintained in a manner to ensure their long-term operability and quality." Once regulators approve the company's next moves, Volkswagen may destroy, repair, or export the cars in order to begin freeing...
[04:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:25] <exec> 08└─It may never be eliminated, but it can be curbed. Step one, we as a society must stop celebrating greed and those who champion it. The rich executive that made a fortune on the backs of others is to be shamed and shunned. The person who gouges after a disaster deserves your spittle, not congratulati...
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─Let me quote from your post: "Seatbelts were standard equipment in automobiles long, long, LONG before government mandated their use." See that: on the one hand installation, on the other use. That's two separate issues that you are conflating. If your post should be read as mandating their installa...
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:29] <exec> 08└─Don't EVEN try blaming the bad ol' gubermint for this one. The facts don't support you. Those cars could be re-flashed and become street legal today. If they had a urea system on them, they could have all the performance they were advertised to have and meet standards just fine. Government DID keep...
[04:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:32] <exec> 08└─So what color were they then before?
[04:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:34] <exec> 08└─Same with the extended battery option.
[04:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the fate of all cars?
[04:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:38] <exec> 08└─I find it fascinating that given "big brother inside" everything is so widely loved, that we don't have an automated solution to pair gas station sales with tire pressure monitoring transmissions (or license place readers or some kind of telephoto VIN reader or whatever) to produce a REAL WORLD mpg...
[04:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:40] <exec> 08└─ABS doesn't even engage unless you are at risk of breaking traction. It's true that the most skilled drivers can stop slightly shorter than simple ABS systems can, but most drivers are not in that category, including most drivers that think they are (this likely includes you until proven otherwise)....
[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:43] <exec> 08└─If the wheels on the right side are locking and releasing, then without ABS they'd just lock and slide providing LESS effective braking. It might be better if your brake system could operate with more subtlety and provide still more braking power, but your brakes are hardly "on strike" and you aren'...
[04:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:45] <exec> 08└─They could flash the ECUs and put them back on the road right now, fullt compliant with the law.
[04:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─We will exist in computer environment rather soon https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The easiest way to imagine the process is, according to him... first we'll connect our brains to a computer for simple tasks such as restoring lost vision. Than our computer will...
[04:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:30] <exec> 08└─An african grey parrot is about as smart as a five year old child, with a much smaller brain. Mammals are nowhere near maximum intelligence per cubic inch.
[04:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:13] <exec> 08└─If they are banning nipples, I'm pretty sure you are not going to see any pabulums, pseudo-left or not.
[04:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:14] <exec> 08└─And what happens if child porn is found on such a node by authorities?
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[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:31] <exec> 08└─Here comes the lifestyle marketing. There will be pot brands for every demographic, just as we find with tobacco and alcohol and so many other products. One brand makes you more womanly. One brand shows your social justice concern. One brand shows how business-savvy you are. One brand displays your...
[05:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/a-tall-tale-accuracy-of-trumps-medical-report-and-new-height-questioned [theguardian.com] Reality distortion sheds pounds fast.
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:54] <exec> 08└─No, I am talking about unsweetened teas that are labeled as such. Not your typical Lipton with sugar and lemon. Specifically, I bought Tejava [tejava.com] in the last year. But there's also unsweetened versions from Teavana, Gold Peak, Lipton itself, Pure Leaf, and others [walmart.com].
[05:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:56] <exec> 08└─No, it's not old news. The actual state of scientific research on a possible link between artificial sweeteners and obesity has thus far been inconclusive [nih.gov] as a systematic review of the literature from 2010 states: At the current time, the jury remains out regarding a possible role of incre...
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:58] <exec> 08└─Reality distortion sheds pounds fast.
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─I thought the same thing, except without the detail you went into, but basically, most people who drink diet soda are typically those worried about their weight (fn1) to begin with so they already sort of self-selected for being overweight due to other reasons. (fn1) sugar tastes so much better than...
[05:34:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─"Oh, yes, our great, free country has no problems with disappearing people [wikipedia.org], completely skipping due process [wikipedia.org], or policing our citizens with no oversight." he said as he hefted a giant-ass boulder inside his pleasantly transparent home, ready to toss. [wikipedia.org] An...
[05:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:23] <exec> 08└─Can someone please explain to me what business a Chinese citizen would even have in trying to enforce the blatantly illegal sanctions put on one of the world's poorest countries by one of the world's richest and most powerful? Also why the hell is Canada even involved in this? Did they gain statehoo...
[05:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:59] <exec> 08└─Someone go to Amazon and order one of these. Have it shipped to my home 1600 Pennsyvania Ave Washington DC 20500 Thanks!
[05:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:54] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy. I'll take re-flash the ECU and sell the car for less.
[05:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:55] <exec> 08└─Don't some countries factor in the recycling costs of cars right up front in the purchase cost? Total cradle to grave sort of thing? I think the cars *must* be recycled.
[05:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:58] <exec> 08└─You're dangerously wrong! > If you just want to stop in a straight line, locking the wheels is the best strategy. That's not true. The static friction is much lower than the dynamic friction under almost all cases, as the surface rubber softens and road material lubricates the interface. Note that r...
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[05:37:00] <exec> 08└─shamed and shunned
[05:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:52] <exec> 08└─Pause and think about that for a second.
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[06:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─Hard to imagine the whole continent stoned, but even harder what it will take to stop it.
[06:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:43] <exec> 08└─A police state will do the trick.
[06:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:45] <exec> 08└─It takes more than one police officer to stop one offender. Truly mass suppression is very hard to implement. One needs support of if not a majority, but at least some very substantial part of the population. Besides, I can imagine police brands of "Marlboro" as well.
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─but Xylitol definitely is good for your teeth - Yes, according to the stuff I have been reading. It inhibits bacterial growth. But, it probably does a number on your gut flora - I have experience with this one. It definitely does a number on my innards. Get gas so bad I have to let go a great big fa...
[06:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:37] <exec> 08└─China summoned the Canadian ambassador to protest the detention of a top executive of leading Chinese tech giant Huawei, calling it "unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature" and warning of "grave consequences" if she is not released.
[06:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:38] <exec> 08└─Huawei lied to HSBC Bank about Iran. HSBC has US operations and has to agree to enforce anti-Iran rules. Lying to HSBC was bank fraud.
[06:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:40] <exec> 08└─They had to say something blustery to show that they are doing everything possible to get her out.
[06:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:42] <exec> 08└─Can someone please explain to me what business a Chinese citizen would even have in trying to enforce the blatantly illegal sanctions put on one of the world's poorest countries by one of the world's richest and most powerful? Also why the hell is Canada even involved in this?
[06:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:44] <exec> 08└─Why Canada is involved. Canada had no choice but to arrest Huawei executive at Washington's request: expert https://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca] TLDR version = Treaties
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[06:35:19] <exec> 08└─tldr
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[06:35:29] <exec> 08└─Ideally, all advertisements should cost at least $10M each. That way we wouldn't have to put up with so many of them. And the few which remained might actually have a chance of working.
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[07:33:43] <exec> 08└─You don't need the _support_ of a large portion of the population, only enough _fear_ to keep them in line.
[07:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:44] <exec> 08└─Prohibition was a failure, just like the "War on Drugs". Prohibition of cannabis was always driven by racism. The drug of choice for whites was traditionally alcohol, which is probably more dangerous than cannabis. Finally, the ridiculous laws against marijuana are going away. Those tax revenues are...
[07:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:40] <exec> 08└─Hmm... it's rare in diplomacy because diplomats need a way to get the point across when it matters. What "grave" is supposed to mean? In diplomatic terms I mean?
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[07:37:15] <exec> 08└─You missed the context (on purpose?), sorry that I didn't make it painfully clear. I only meant that locked wheels are the best strategy for deformable surfaces - which was the clear topic of my post, this whole thread is in response to Runaway and his gravel road. What I wrote (and you quoted): > I...
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[07:37:17] <exec> 08└─> If the wheels on the right side are locking and releasing, then without ABS they'd just lock and slide providing LESS effective braking. Probably not true. If the wheels on the right side are in deformable mud and gravel, locking them will build up a wedge of loose material in front of the tires a...
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[07:37:20] <exec> 08└─> ... my own force studies on bike wheels. Upright or recumbent bicycle? On an upright, any serious amount of braking on the front wheel leads to pitch over.
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[07:37:22] <exec> 08└─Without ABS (and without manual brake pumping) the loose material builds up in front of the tires. Given the bad surface, this is your best option. Pushing those piles of loose material is better than nothing; with ABS you get nothing. ABS is OKish on normal asphalt that is perhaps a bit moist with...
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:24] <exec> 08└─Part of the punishment for getting busted for cheating on the emissions testing for their diesel vehicles, Volkswagon was forced to offer a buyback the owners of any of the affected vehicles. The offers were fairly generous, and given that recent Volkswagons have rather dubious build quality anyway...
[07:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:26] <exec> 08└─People don't understand ABS. The point of ABS is that it allows you to still steer the vehicle while it's slowing down. That's what it does. It's not intended to stop the car quicker, it's intended to allow the driver to still control the car. Because otherwise once you've locked the wheels on a car...
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[08:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─Unless those parties all share the key with someone else, or their keys are stolen, then abuse is guaranteed. On the level of heists I think these keys would pay very well.
[08:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:30] <exec> 08└─Mission accomplished. --China
[08:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:32] <exec> 08└─One brand makes you more womanly. One brand shows your social justice concern. One brand shows how business-savvy you are. One brand displays your support for America. One brand lets everybody know you are a metrosexual. One brand exhibits your wealth. One brand honors disabled veterans. One brand i...
[08:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─In diplo-speak, "grave consequences" is usually the last escalation step of "talking" and before "actually doing things". A final warning.
[08:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:39] <exec> 08└─Can you cum and play with us?
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[08:39:41] <exec> 08└─PC name for Sex Change Surgury. see www.expertsexchange.com for details (expert sex change)
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[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your problem. are you forbidden from growing your own? just ignore the hype. if you don't want to grow your own, then just buy the cheapest. if you don't want marijuana at all, then go on with your life and ignore this.
[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you brought NSA monitoring into a discussion about "disappearing" people. In terms of "disappearing" people, you are equating the *normal way* of dealing with pretty much everyone in China, with rare and unusual circumstances in the US. What is it, with all the China apologists? What is...
[09:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:27] <exec> 08└─There are two things I'd like to add here. The first is -- China, as with most Oriental countries, is a very https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] filled culture. If you're of higher rank, if you're an elder? Dissent is not really as much of an option. What I've seen in mostly C...
[09:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:29] <exec> 08└─You're confused. There was no illegal assault and warrant-less search here. There is no comparison.
[09:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, thanks for saving me a lot of typing. Good article to point to. I might add, that this works in the reverse. The US arrests and extradites people to Canada all of the time. The same is true with many, many countries worldwide. It's why someone is in an Ecuadorian embassy. No extradition treaty....
[09:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:34] <exec> 08└─Amusingly, if the quotes in this article are true -- it appears China has no comprehension of due process. They probably know it exists, but believe it's just a convenient guise. No. Sorry. In Canada, due process is followed -- regardless of who you are, who you know. So no China, there is NO WAY AT...
[09:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:36] <exec> 08└─To add to this... I wonder, do they realise the difference between a Canadian and Chinese jail? She's in a Canadian jail this weekend, but the only hardship is confinement... our jails are like US jails, and certainly not Chinese jails. On top of this, I'm sure that she's in solitary. Not because sh...
[09:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:38] <exec> 08└─Erm. Sigh. There's been a warrant since August. Maybe the warrant was 'dumb', I don't know. But the arrest? NO. The true mark of a democratic and non-elitist society is that you aren't above the law. Other foreign nationals are arrested and extradited to and from Western nations all of the time. Are...
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[10:34:26] <exec> 08└─They used to be known as Phillip Morris after all. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─Yup. I've never made any claims to be a scholar of oriental society, but I do read a lot. I used to ask myself, "How can anyone be so STUPID as to" do whatever the people were doing. It took time to realize that the children are brought up with entirely different attitudes. Parents don't dote on the...
[10:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Advertisement Training Exercise Accidentally Costs Company $10 Million - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:25] <exec> 08└─Better even, remind people to use some simple math. 365.25 days/year * 1440 min/day * $10M/45 min = $11.680 Billion/year Now, demand to calculate fines accordingly.
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[11:34:40] <exec> 08└─No, you don't solve the problem by not caring. The problem is harm to society, with many causes and effects all related. We get cancer, wasted resources, birth defects, lung disease, pot heads not caring about life... and we could judge that SWAT team raids are worse but that doesn't mean pot is har...
[11:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:10] <exec> 08└─People who consume low calorie foods are fat. Research suggests they do so in an effort to lose weight.
[11:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─At the G20, Donny and Xi supposedly made a deal whereby China was going to start buying a bunch of US goods to wittle down the trade imbalance, and Trump was going to hold off on some tariffs. Now Canada is urinating in the punch bowl?
[11:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:56] <exec> 08└─Laws that try to tell to foreigners what to do in their own countries with their own money are absurd. Even UN sanctions are complicated. Let alone unilateral sanctions from a country. Those laws are not justice, just economy and geopolitic. The message is not none is above the law, but none can esc...
[11:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:58] <exec> 08└─Huawei made the mistake of incorporating in the United States in an effort to globalize. Which means they have to follow US laws.
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[11:36:14] <exec> 08└─Tap water is not sterile. It's safe to drink, it's just not something you want up your nose. Olfactory ensheathing cells provide a bridge across the blood-brain barrier. Viruses and other bad things can get in there and really wreck your life.
[11:37:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1818 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:39] <exec> 08└─You're just not getting it. I live on a quarter mile long county road, with a gravel surface. I approach the end of my road, going no more than 30 mile per hour under any weather conditions. I've described the wet, soggy conditions. The driver's side wheels are on firm, solid gravel bed, with very l...
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[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─cause no one has ever broken that like ever or for bluray or games nup no noway all secure fred.
[12:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:28] <exec> 08└─Australia WILL Damage it’s own economy. Decrease the digital security of its citizens. Not prevent strong encryption from being used. Open up their populace to rampant abuse. Encourage other countries (more authoritarian ones) to follow...
[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─What cancer and lung disease are you talking about?
[12:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─Quite a widespread problem is that US banks refuse to give accounts to Weed Shoppes because banks are Federally regulated. Yet all over Creation I read the wonderful news that weed is the Darling Of Wall Street, yet the stock market is Federally regulated as well. I'm going to grow some, despite bei...
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─I have to find a source of bulk quantities of seeds. I'll fashion a sort of air rifle - maybe I could rig up a BB gun or so - then point it out the window of a van as I drive through the logging roads that are found all throughout our nation's National Forests. (National "Forests" are specifically f...
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─Check Fan Bingbing's bank account balance for proof of this
[12:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:24] <exec> 08└─Not because they might make me fat, but to me personally they taste _foul_. By contrast, I once lost fifty pounds over the course of a year, on another occasion forty pounds in six months. The former was a high-protein diet with no special exercise, the latter I was strictly vegan and passed my time...
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:25] <exec> 08└─I react very, very badly to excess sugar. One had Mom totally freaking as I had her convinced I had Juvenile Diabetes. I've never had either variety, but even so, eating too much sugar all at once makes my ability to participate in a class into a smoking crater in the ground.
[12:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:28] <exec> 08└─Maltitol is a form of real sugar that we cannot digest. This results in Diabetic Candy Bars being quite tragically small. There are some real health benefits to eating dark chocolate; 92% Cocoa is readily available, as is quality unsweetened chocolate such as Ghirardelli. I can't eat unsweetened by...
[12:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:11] <exec> 08└─The US is far from the only nation to have laws that effect non-citizens outside their borders. However, my stated point was that the *arrest* was not 'dumb'. The OP was, as I mentioned, saying that the power and money and connections of the arrested, made the choice to arrest "dumb". You are counte...
[12:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:13] <exec> 08└─I asked someone in the government cybersecurity field to write a Letter Of Recommendation for me. "WE NEED YOU!" He told me that as far back as then, the PRC was ransacking our defense manufacturers, as well as trade secrets from leading Technology firms.
[12:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:15] <exec> 08└─Due to Canada's uncommonly - and strictly speaking, incorrect - dedication to peace, it's the ONLY nation in the world that other nations are willing to accept their use of Heavy Water Reactors, the CANDU. The greatest advantage of Heavy Water is that due to Deuterium Nuclei _already_ having a Neutr...
[12:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:49] <exec> 08└─Is that you, Mr. Pence?
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[12:35:51] <exec> 08└─> so keep an open mind. I wouldn't worry about that. Most Soyentils minds are so open the brain popped out ages ago, and in most cases is already rolling half way down the hill :-)
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Advertisement Training Exercise Accidentally Costs Company $10 Million - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:03] <exec> 08└─What kinda of muppets have training sessions in a live environment? I would blame the idiots in charge for that one and not the trainee for that mistake. No mention of if he/she was fired or not, or if the trainee period is just terminated afterwards ... Google said it would put controls in place to...
[12:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you So much Any more good links? :P
[12:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:12] <exec> 08└─What is most disturbing is that YouTube always plays the same set of videos in TBB, in Safari with its history pre-cleared as well as in Chrome, in which I only rarely delete my history. I figure I _might_ defeat YouTube's TBB SuperCookie by starting with a song that while at one time a favorite, ha...
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[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─There have been several stories about pulling water from the atmosphere, in the past year or so. That's cool and all, but, how does that fit into the big picture? Isn't the net effect to make the area yet more arid? Pulling your drinking water from the air is really cool - even I could probably surv...
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─We should be using desalination with graphene. Much of the world's population lives within a couple hundred kilometers of a coast. Y Combinator Unveils Another Climate Change "Moonshot": Flood a Desert [soylentnews.org] Congrats, you think like a venture capitalist.
[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:44] <exec> 08└─Desalination is a good idea, but it is expensive, has high energy requirements, and the water needs to travel hundreds (or thousands) of miles to get to everyone who needs it. This isn't intended to replace desalination. It's a very low cost, low energy solution that works where the water isn't. Mai...
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[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─I assume it is obvious, but just in case: "two or more entities have pieces of that key" This does not improve security. The key will be used, which means that it will be assembled. At that point in time, a single entity has the entire key. Given basic human laziness, that key will be saved - and is...
[13:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:27] <exec> 08└─If Marlboro make them, they will probably all give you cancer.
[13:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:59] <exec> 08└─It is not a sugar, but a sugar alcohol. The sweeteners with names ending in "ol" are of this type. Personally, they make me sick to my stomach.
[13:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:46] <exec> 08└─Except China is a dictatorship which might throw some spanners in the works. These greedy assholes are pretty well entreched. I do hope I'm wrong though.
[13:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:48] <exec> 08└─Canada didn't issue the arrest warrant... get a clue chum.
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[13:36:25] <exec> 08└─I think the whole staff could benefit from such christmas gifts. Maybe also a Chia Obama bust for the kids.
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[13:36:26] <exec> 08└─Garlic is a good antimicrobial. If my nose is starting to have mucus I eat garlic and it usually helps a lot. For evidence of its antimicrobial properties you can look up videos of garlic zone of inhibition tests. It creates zones of inhibition on petri dishes I noticed once when I was on antibiotic...
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[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─after we've liquified them. #khashoggi Or just crash air planes into twin towers while sipping Evian and cozying up with Mr. Kushner.
[14:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─You can't get enough water from the air in a DRY DUSTY DESERT to be meaningful. That's why it's "dry." This has been tried countless times already, with glorified dehumidifiers to condense and collect water being the most popular design. They work great in a humid climate because there's no shortage...
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[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─you pull the water from the air, then drink it and then it ... vanishes. duh, obviously not. you pee it out after it has lubricated your body and then *poof* it evaporates leaving behind all the crap your body doesn't want to use anymore. it think the only way to dehumidify the global air pool is to...
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[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─Set up a chain of nuclear (or renewables if the capacity wasn't cost prohibitive) power plants going from the california coast, across nevada, to Utah. Rather than desalinating the water, just sterilize it for foreign microbes then pump it up into the great salt lake basin and the nearby lakebeds in...
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[14:34:18] <exec> 08└─I kinda like your idea. Let's flood Salt Lake City. That will teach those Mormon heretics!
[14:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:20] <exec> 08└─Point taken. It's like a beer - you can't buy it, you can only rent it. You can't even sign a long-term lease on it, just short term rental.
[14:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─clouds do fly over the deserts, and there is limited mixing of the different layers of air. it sometimes rains over a desert, but the water droplets evaporate before they hit the ground (this is especially fun in US deserts, where sometimes the mesa formations get wet on top, but everything else aro...
[14:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:45] <exec> 08└─Make the politicians live under these rules for 5 years before the general public has to. Let's see how long their privacy lasts under split key cryptography.
[14:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:11] <exec> 08└─Yup.... we're all high, and China takes over. Most. intelligent. species. on. Earth.
[14:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:13] <exec> 08└─No, you don't solve the problem by not caring. The problem is harm to society, with many causes and effects all related. We get cancer, wasted resources, birth defects, lung disease, pot heads not caring about life... and we could judge that SWAT team raids are worse but that doesn't mean pot is har...
[14:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:15] <exec> 08└─You don't need the _support_ of a large portion of the population, only enough _fear_ to keep them in line.
[14:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─Shit, you just have to look at the people loading their shopping carts up with 'diet' pop to know it's conclusive: how much more proof do people need? I look at these people loading up, wheezing the whole time, and I think "Grab a couple cases of water instead! They're RIGHT THERE!" People just don'...
[14:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:34] <exec> 08└─Laws that try to tell to foreigners what to do in their own countries with their own money are absurd.
[14:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─The arrest is outrageously dumb. The Chinese do take this kind of stuff personally, and if the US doesn't resolve this real quick, US businesspeople, students and tourists are going to be Red Cornered all over the People's Republic. And China has the muscle to keep them jailed despite America's bitc...
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─US life expectancy started dropping when obamacare was implemented, giving more people access to 'care': https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com]
[14:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kymation [1047] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 745 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:58] <exec> 08└─That's essentially what they are doing. Volkswagon had a hard deadline to get all of the cars fixed or off the road, and not enough resources to fix all of them in that short a time. So they bought the cars back and stored them until they could fix and resell them. Notice those gaps in the rows of c...
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[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Unlike Google, which shits on its userbase, its customers, its employees, its investors, and the world at large. Do Evil Unto Evil. Fuck Google To Death.
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Why are people having such a hard time understanding that there are more than two browsers out there? I have 6 browsers installed and I use them all. Don't like Google tracking you? Use Flashpeak Slimjet, based on the open-source code, but with the phone-home code removed. Don't like Mozilla Firefox...
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Chrome/Chromium is open source. We already see multiple groups compiling the browser to remove Google's tracking, and advertising. It will be a simple task for Microsoft to compile the source code more to their liking, and distribute Chrome with their own "telemetry" and other bullshit. The only thi...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, no. There are basically only two browsers out there. The rest are rebranded, recompiled versions of the first two. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what the exceptions might be.
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─This isn't about browsers but rendering engines. E.g. Mozilla Firefox == Pale Moon == Tor Browser in this regard.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─I never thought I'd see this day. Embracing open source, Windows on ARM, dumping Windows Phone for an Android Launcher and now effectively the end of IE's legacy, this is not the Micro$oft we used to know. They're obviously fighting hard to stay relevant with what's popular in modern tech but I wond...
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─And Vivaldi = Opera = Chrome = Microsoft ChromeEdgeWhatever
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─They're obviously fighting hard to stay relevant with what's popular in modern tech but I wonder how much they will lose what set them apart if they continue down this path Embrace, extend and ....
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─You say that like... But seriously: just the other day MS surpassed Apple as the world's most valueable company. The last time I personally visited their homepage it was actually difficult to find their links to windows and office. MS is now far far more like IBM and Oracle: their product offering a...
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─I thought of that but I'd be seriously amazed if they managed to extinguish anything of value to Google. I could maybe see them poisoning Chromium somehow but Google have the resources to just make a new browser whenever they want (or continue with their own branch of the source and maybe rebrand it...
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─Browser that never supported SVG animation. - signed every web developer
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:36] <exec> 08└─From the research article [acs.org] linked in TFS: A proof-of-concept is provided by using CaCl2, a cheap, stable, ecofriendly, and nontoxic deliquescent salt. The hydration reaction of CaCl2 enables it to capture water at low humidity (i.e., RH 10–25%), while its deliquescence further draws more...
[15:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely happy with the increasing use of perfluorinated organic chemicals, as they are extremely persistent in the environment, and it is not known what effect they might have on the ecosystem - experience of just one (perfluorooctanoic acid [wikipedia.org]) is not positive. While I'm not a...
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 5346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─Bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)ether looks like this: CF3-CH2-O-CH2-CF3 There are so many possible battery chemistries, with so many subtle variations, that it seems almost certain we'll eventually discover something good enough to make the electric car really viable. I've been learning what it's like to...
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─The concept, popularized by a Microsoft researcher, is said to solve the problem of abuse, because all parties have to agree to decrypt the messages.
[15:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:02] <exec> 08└─XDDDD that's so great!!! 2bad it won't happen
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─Re: "Tax revenues are too enticing!" Tax-n-regulate is how we got in this mess in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It was a prohibition masquerading as a tax. This is explained in the Whitebread speech. You should read it, very entertaining. As...
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Because it's relevant to the question of due process. I'm not going to respond to the rest of your post, because that part should have been intuitively obvious, and I have to assume you don't think about any of the rest of the things you said either.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─And the brazen-ass balls you have to call anyone else a hypocrite.
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─What "grave" is supposed to mean? In diplomatic terms I mean?
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─Grave consequences was in the press release. They probably said something else to the Canadian ambassador.
[15:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:29] <exec> 08└─Let me quote from your post: "Seatbelts were standard equipment in automobiles long, long, LONG before government mandated their use." See that: on the one hand installation, on the other use. That's two separate issues that you are conflating. If your post should be read as mandating their installa...
[15:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:32] <exec> 08└─Assumptions based on pretty solid physics, let us note.
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[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─Mozilla was Google's bitch as long as they paid the off the foundation. Seems like it's time MSFT tries the same trick to get the dog to dance.
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 2037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─I suspect many people have forgotten what a browser monoculture looks like, so let me throw out a few reminders from the time IE was king. Does anyone else remember having to load extensions in to Mozilla/Netscape/Early Firefox that embedded the IE rendering engine just to get pages to load because...
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─Dear web developer, please choke to death on your own golden brown dick. - signed every user that hates pointless animations.
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─The exceptions are stuff like dillo, which works, but doesn't support javascript or a lot of other things that are necessary for many pages to work. lynx/links/elinks/w3m/netsurf are all cool, but have the same limitations as dillo. QtWebEngine and WebkitGTK are more or less just stripped down chrom...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─My first thought was that it's a huge, loser move to concede that they can't make a decent browser on their own and have to use somebody else's code. M$ is a charter member of the corporate software club who feels not the slightest shame in using others' code, for all they scream about piracy and tr...
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─Does nobody remember Sun v. Microsoft over javascript? The idea that Microsoft is getting on the same page with anybody about anything is pretty funny. But not as funny as this from the blog post: "From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective" Odd that a product that rarely goes a wee...
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─so when the inevitable accident happens and the battery contents are spilled all over the side of the road, how bad is that, compared to other bad chemicals? assuming people will not simply spill used battery liquid into the sewers.
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a crypto nerd, our computer systems today aren't secure enough to handle data of that level of senstivity. Though it could work in principle if each message was encrypted with a transient key and that key is encrypted twice, once to the corp and once to the government, thsi could in theo...
[16:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─A better solution is to double encrypt the key. I.e. it's encrypted to the government and the version encrypted to the government is encrypted to the corporation. The government can't decrypt it because the version they need to decrypt it is encrypted to the corporation. The corporation could decryp...
[16:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─There were "No Marijuana" signs posted everywhere.
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─I've been using only stevia (okay, and the occasional diet Venom or Monster Rehab) for a while now, and it seems not to produce these effects. This paper is on artificially-produced sweeteners, things like your aspartame or your sucralose.
[16:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 838 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you brought NSA monitoring into a discussion about "disappearing" people. In terms of "disappearing" people, you are equating the *normal way* of dealing with pretty much everyone in China, with rare and unusual circumstances in the US. What is it, with all the China apologists? What is...
[16:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─lmfao if you think China has a shred of due process.
[16:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:02] <exec> 08└─Well, Saddam Husein had no way to destroy nonexistent chemical weapons either.
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─But this has the "unfortunate" "problem" of producing vast quantities of Plutonium.
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─I should further add, the solution to the "radioactive waste problem" the US has been wrestling with for over a decade is really quite simple: Ship it to Canada. Feed the CANDU. Woohoo, cheap fuel means cheap electricity. What eventually comes out as waste is even more radioactive, and vastly reduce...
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─The real question is how far Canada is about to go to protect their legal privilege. Note that China, being historically Confucian country, treats the laws differently. Specifically, in Confucian religion a judge decides what the law is and executes it personally. That's because they recognize the l...
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[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't work. They have a natural immunity.
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─If it is, he's been talking to Mueller again.
[16:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:47] <exec> 08└─...born and raised right here on Earth.
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[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:30] <exec> 08└─"Are you allergic to anything?" "Work, pain, sharps, and stupid people." "How about wasps?" "They've never bothered me, aside from that sharp pointy ovipositor thing." "You don't have reactions to wasp stings, then?" "Never have.? "Fine then, we're going to start you on this experimental antibiotic,...
[17:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─There are urban legends about an exceptional health of bee keepers all the time and in distant cultures. My childhood image of a bee guy is a white bearded old man teasing a young woman. Perhaps we adapt to the poison but enjoy the protection?
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, women do adapt to us poisonous old men, but they enjoy our protection. Oh, wait - that isn't what you meant? :^)
[17:33:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─...if Mozilla hadn't shat on their userbase at every turn they'd have some more relevance and leverage in these times.
[17:33:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, no. There are basically only two browsers out there. The rest are rebranded, recompiled versions of the first two. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what the exceptions might be.
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─Modded up, despite that I don't entirely agree with your vision of the future. Yes, I well remember when everything on the web was "engineered" to work with IE5, and then IE6. After 6, things seemed to start relaxing. But, there are too many players involved today. Unlike IE, Microsoft isn't the end...
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─"We're sorry, your browser is suspicious. Access denied by cloud flare."
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─spotted the windows user...
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─As expected, browsers have a toggle to disable Flash or JavaScript, but not animated SVG, and maybe not canvas or HTML5 video.
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's not the telemetry so much as control over the standards process. We're already at the point where step #1 of troubleshooting web apps seems to be "run it in a Blink browser" (I prefer Vivaldi for this purpose.) At this point a single rendering engine (blink) is going to be about 80% of the web....
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Chromium and Blink the code are open source. But any chance the world had to adjust internet standards away from data collection and advertising just got even smaller. Because any standard that isn't implemented in core Chromium will effectively be killed, since Google will protect its cash...
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yep, which is why it's great that MIT has worked out a roll-to-roll process to produce high-quality graphene sheets at industrial scales. http://news.mit.edu [mit.edu] I'm really looking forward to the things industrial-scale graphene will m...
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─Just a note that hot desert air contents a lot of water - a lot. The water vapor amount in the air is directly proportional to the temperature and the driest air is over antarctic ice. If this works, it is very useful indeed.
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─Where is more water in the air - in Death Valley or in NY City? Death Valley has way more (because it is hotter).
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─The difference between a car company making a "compliance car" that meets their obligations under governmental regulation ("1% of your vehicle sales must be zero emission cars"), and a car company who believes that EVs are the future and are a critical item for reducing our impact on the environment...
[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:04] <exec> 08└─Uh...the net result is exactly the same as split-key. Using either scheme requires 2 parties to decrypt the message. One party issues business licenses, controls an army, and can lock up CEO's. The other party employs people, pays taxes, and raises a country's GDP. This unholy alliance will not hesi...
[17:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:06] <exec> 08└─"The concept, popularized by a Microsoft researcher" someone should teach that whore a lesson.
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─Prohibition was not a failure; very far from it. Before it all Americans starting at 2 years old or earlier drunk (they started with apple "juice" than switched to apple jack, then all the way). Check the history books. While alcohol is permitted now, it is tightly regulated thanks to prohibition bu...
[17:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─I am invested in Cannabis as well and increased the position recently. Here are my 3 reasons: 1. Obvious. The Attorney General nut was forced out. 2. Less obvious. We elected Democratic congress which will likely mean that any serious legislation is doomed. This will give the industry at lest 2 year...
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─fuck you, you authoritarian piece of shit.
[17:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─Don't trust your lying eyes! Trump isn't fat! Your eyes have TDS and just imagine he's fat!
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─They probably also go for fat-free foods, which reduce satiety and encourage overeating.
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─What is it, with all the US apologists? What is it, with people looking at a democratic social welfare state such as The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal or the UK and trying to say "Oh, the US must surely be better than that!!!". NO. No, no, fucking no! I'm sick and tired of people claiming that the...
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─That means it has a short half-life, and so won't require watchful security for the next half-million years. That Plutonium waste is such a problem to store is that provided its Nuclear Cascade Reaction is not significant - that is, it's broken into small pieces, each piece far from the others, or a...
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─the white man's laws with an attempt at fairness were being developed before they were exposed to Judaism.
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[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─I remain dumbstruck that HTML 5 permits unclosed elements. That surely makes rendering engines significantly more difficult to write.
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Their business these days seems to be bribing government and purchasing agents to throw money at Azure to give them a chance at continuing the lock-in. Azure has poor performance and reliability compared to their competition. Without lock-in or continuing bribes, they're done. The backing off on the...
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─Step one: please realize that there is a difference between a rendering engine and a browser, just like there is a difference between a combustion engine, drivetrain and car's chassis (look ma, a car analogy!). Step two: please re-read the article with your newfound knowledge. Step three: try commen...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─That no one has ever hacked the root nameservers is due in part to each of them running significantly different code from all the others. There was a time that while everybody readily agreed that there could be such a thing as a virus, they were never really a problem because there were so many diff...
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─-s. I can block notifications only from a specific website, and even then, only when it first asks permission to so-crudely annoy the crap out of me.
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─"Working Software, Mike speaking. How may I help you?" "Working Watermarker 1.1.2 Sucks The Infinite Wang." "In what way?" "It won't let go of my cock!" "I'll remove WWM's teeth in 1.1.3. Would you like to be one of our beta testers?"
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:34] <exec> 08└─This according to Wikipedia. Perhaps we would do well to submit to our future Communist overlords.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─A couple months ago I listed many of Oracle's locations at Soggy Jobs. A great many of its shops are located in national capitals. Surely We Are Doomed.
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─I think some don't even act properly when you do close the ones that are "optional".
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─"I enjoy my job of coding device drivers for IoT sex toys. Lonely people who masturbate are losers who deserve to have their privacy violated by my employer's products otherwise they would get laid every day like me. But my true passion is my side business of running a job board. I know very well ho...
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─And Safari = ?
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─Even if users or developers wanted to use them. Standardizing on WebExtensions gave Google more control of the web too. So did taking Google's Money, then squandering it on Pocket, and social justice issues, instead of on a serious push to regression test and bugfix Gecko and later Quantum in an eff...
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:08] <exec> 08└─desalinate ocean water, and pump it into the desert? With that, you're reclaiming desert land.
[18:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:10] <exec> 08└─It's all a question of scale and density. There is moisture in the desert, enough to support X people per square mile (X varies with both the specific desert region in question and the style in which the people intend to live...) For that matter, there's moisture on Mars - maybe not enough to suppor...
[18:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly this... and, there are deserts with quite a bit of humidity but little condensation, like the Atacama that the BBC is always prattling on about.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DabdHbkWkAAJ_pC.jpg [twimg.com]
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─Who needs a super computer or secret courts? That shit is expensive. Last i heard you can get a plumber to brring his wremches direct to you for 90-150.
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─I'd say that the fundamental issue is that it is far easier to manufacture your own secure crypto than it is to build a flint-lock rifle, anybody who cares can hire it done for a trivial cost. Thus: when secure crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have secure crypto.
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:21] <exec> 08└─And would like to subscribe to your newsletter. _None_ of those had occurred to me. If I get any money at all from my Indiegogo, I'm going to invest a fair-sized chunk of it, not just my own money but what I expect to spend later on for my employees' salaries and the like. These absolutely _must_ be...
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─Kudlow: Trump didn’t know about Huawei executive’s arrest before dining with Chinese leader
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─You're not even making any sense. A nuclear strike, over a corporate executive? If you think China would do that, the what do you think they'll do over sanctions that destroy their economy? Or tariffs? And why do you think China wouldn't fear retaliation? You do realise that while Canada isn't a nuc...
[18:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─>"... thought it [sterilized water] was not worth the effort" I always boil the water I use in my neti pot. I make up a half gallon at a time. It takes a little planning, but very little effort. I boil the water for a few minutes in my tea kettle, then turn off the heat and let it cool for about eig...
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[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:29] <exec> 08└─There's also the fact that the cinchona tree is significantly rarer than the willow tree, hence quinine was naturally more expensive. Aspirin was synthesized as early as 1853 while quinine wasn't synthesized until 1944. But don't let facts ruin the dishonest spirit of your narrative, you lying turd....
[19:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Then they find the thing and patent on some foreing plant, making illegal to local dwellers to use the thing because of Copyrights.
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of Soggy Jobs.
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─As soon as I patent shitposting, I'm gonna be rich! Head to toe Prada, Benz in the driveway, yacht in the water. [Note to self: don't even bother quoting contemporary charting songs on forums populated by oblivious idiots who will never recognize the songs.]
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─What? Would you just let those people waste that resource by using it to treat their ills without paying a massive licensing fee?
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─Well, if you don't like aspirin, you can still get (white) willow bark... https://www.webmd.com [webmd.com] No one seems to have patented/registered/copyrighted it.
[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:41] <exec> 08└─As soon as you break the internet with your fabled exploit and bring down every online job board along with it, your Soggy Jobs newsletter will corner the market on job listings. Fuck MDC
[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─If you don't like buying the bark, chew a willow tree. Cinchona bark makes some good tea.
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─This 2 year old post on that other site is revealing: https://news.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─WebKit, so kinda like Chromium (Blink).
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Of course it would give an artificial inflation to chromiums share of the market but.. quite honestly who cares? Mozilla is not producing a high quality product, and they are not the champions of users rights they once were (if anything they may have limited that). Their voice just doesn't convince...
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─Our customer service personnel will respond to your request in the order it was made.
[19:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe Mozilla would sound a little bit more sincere if they distanced themselves from Microsoft and DRM: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://hacks.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Product: Working Watermarker Version: 1.1.3 Issue: Teeth are missing Customers who enjoy the feeling of a toothy blowjob will be disappointed by the product. Developers please include a configuration option to enable teeth.
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:39] <exec> 08└─it's maths. It cannot be erased or hidden, unless there is "Pol Pot" type of human fuckery that goes on and kill everyone that can multiply... This is a complete grab for power, no matter how "desirable" the fantasy LEO access is - it's impossible to have a secure third party. At least , it is in th...
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─You forgot racist, ableist and sexist.
[19:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─You're looking at the wrong thing just like they are. People are so distracted by the Diet Coke that they're not seeing the cookies, crackers, bread, chips, popcorn, rice and tortillas. Those all are just slightly more complex chains of sugar, and they all cause a hit to the blood sugar.
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Artificial sweeteners are hundreds of times more dense than sugar, so just few boxes could feed the whole country. It might make them all fat, but I'd take this as an alternative to starvation.
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─Stevia?, it may start life as a natural product, but look into the extraction/production methods sometime. (I laugh when I hear some 'natural' Stevia proponents rail against the evils of 'refined' white sugar.) Grown in South America...chemically processed in China. Apart from that, I 'm not a fan o...
[19:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:01] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, of course they were. But, so few examples have been handed down through history. Were the Vikings "fair"? Or the Celts? The Germanic tribes? How 'bout those Vandals? Or the Druids? Fact is, from the fall of Rome until Christianity spread far and wide across Europe, there really isn't a lo...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Glad to know we still have some sane neighbors to the North. God bless, brother.
[19:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─You're not even making any sense. A nuclear strike, over a corporate executive?
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[20:34:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:46] <exec> 08└─I never thought I'd see this day. Embracing open source, Windows on ARM, dumping Windows Phone for an Android Launcher and now effectively the end of IE's legacy, this is not the Micro$oft we used to know. They're obviously fighting hard to stay relevant with what's popular in modern tech but I wond...
[20:34:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 2037 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─I suspect many people have forgotten what a browser monoculture looks like, so let me throw out a few reminders from the time IE was king. Does anyone else remember having to load extensions in to Mozilla/Netscape/Early Firefox that embedded the IE rendering engine just to get pages to load because...
[20:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tekk [5704] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:03] <exec> 08└─It's not the telemetry so much as control over the standards process. We're already at the point where step #1 of troubleshooting web apps seems to be "run it in a Blink browser" (I prefer Vivaldi for this purpose.) At this point a single rendering engine (blink) is going to be about 80% of the web....
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─It was java not JavaScript
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─blame netscape for the madness. they should have been strict in what html they accepted. instead they dumbed it down for the masses, accepted brokeness, and we got the shit show we have today.
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the dark side, where you don't have to accept cookies!
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─...so let me throw out a few reminders from the time IE was king.
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─It's too bad Google couldn't charge MS a patent fee for using it. Payback would be such a nice bitch.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─I saw a documentary where they rasied such a tower in a village with a simple bamboo skeleton and polyester threads which would give 100 liters of water per day. Seems much simpler. http://www.warkawater.org [warkawater.org]
[20:36:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely happy with the increasing use of perfluorinated organic chemicals, as they are extremely persistent in the environment, and it is not known what effect they might have on the ecosystem - experience of just one (perfluorooctanoic acid [wikipedia.org]) is not positive. While I'm not a...
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─Fluoride is a highly toxic byproduct of aluminium (aluminum for US) production/smelting. Now maybe we can "capture" this stuff in useful batteries instead of certain large mining groups sponsoring dental schools and writing the textbooks too (since 1940's) ... with the end result that some cities st...
[20:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:00] <exec> 08└─oh they existed. it's just that only US black ops knew where they were buried...
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─stupid whores (the US companies using Windows) should be charged with a crime for being so negligent.
[20:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:26] <exec> 08└─I've always hated the idea of an expanding universe, but perhaps with stories about giant dinosaurs and tiny aliens. The universe are in fact shrinking! Okay, there are a lot of holes in my theory, but nevertheless.
[20:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:27] <exec> 08└─No wait, it's more of a hypothesis. Just an idea perhaps. Perhabs a headache.
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[21:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:24] <exec> 08└─On my cellular service (Ting, uses the Sprint network), I've seen delays of 45 minutes between the sending of a text message to me, and the moment my phone received it. There's no good reason for such a long lag. Yeah, going to dump my current service. Maybe Net Neutrality can help with this problem...
[21:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─"Chromium is Open Source" whoop-de fsckin' do The development money comes from Google A spy organization that is not operating in your best interest
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─That's government thinking. Corporate types send an intern to Ace or Home Depot to buy a drywall hammer (look it up) for a coupla sawbucks.
[21:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─It'll be the same way it already is -- not really based on lifestyle marketing but the desired mood/effect of the shit. Like a brand at the local dispensary that has varieties called shit like "Create," "Connect," "Invigorate," etc. Lifestyle marketing works for alcohol and tobacco because there is...
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[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─Since now America is the world's largest petroleum producer, where's my Basic Income like the OPEC countries pay because they're so rich?
[22:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─They only pay that because they fear people would revolt; Americans are too docile.
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─of change in mean ocean water temperature is the difference between having a nice day and cataclysm. From what I understand, we will all be dead before we pump it all. Strategically it is simple. We pump faster than they do, and soffocate everybody to death equally. That way we will get to put gold...
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─isn't the US just racing to deplete its resources
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─Given a fixed supply of oil, isn't the US just racing to deplete its resources and therefore setting itself up for a later "oil crisis"?
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, America "forgot" to nationalize its oil.
[22:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 America is the world leader in Basic Income, but you are simply too poor (and therefore lazy and ugly) to experience it. In order to qualify, you need several million dollars, something like 20, and then you can start collecting with a shovel. You are...
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Beavers are natures agents of restoring balance to ecosystems: )https://permaculturemag.org/2018/01/beavers/). The beavers are attempting to the permafrost to release enough methane to triple the atmospheric greenhouse effect (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/beavers-accelerate-thawing-arctic-...
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─Given a fixed supply of oil, isn't the US just racing to deplete its resources
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Oil will still be needed for many applications; plastic and fertilizers come to mind first.
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:36] <exec> 08└─After the oil has ran out, the US will be left hopelessly behind in the field of alternative energies, waging even more wars to get the last of the oil elsewhere cheaply. The US should be spearheading a space-race-level effort to make nuclear fusion power a reality before it's too late. But no, inst...
[22:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:38] <exec> 08└─But doesn't the consumption doubles every 50 years or so? https://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk]
[22:35:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─Their business these days seems to be bribing government and purchasing agents to throw money at Azure to give them a chance at continuing the lock-in. Azure has poor performance and reliability compared to their competition. Without lock-in or continuing bribes, they're done. The backing off on the...
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thinking about it, you're very right about the similarities to IBM as well. Luckily, as with both of the other companies, their relevance continues to drop.
[22:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─It's true. Mostly due to browsers trying to do far more than they should. It's interesting watching the cross-platform promise of the web crumble as the browser takes over more and more of the OS and desktop GUI.. while quickly fragmenting everything. I laugh when someone tells me, "just try it in a...
[22:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 1272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─From the research article [acs.org] linked in TFS: A proof-of-concept is provided by using CaCl2, a cheap, stable, ecofriendly, and nontoxic deliquescent salt. The hydration reaction of CaCl2 enables it to capture water at low humidity (i.e., RH 10–25%), while its deliquescence further draws more...
[22:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:53] <exec> 08└─meh. being stoned isn't all that great. many people want to get out and do something with the day. some CBD to sleep or a minor buzz during a vacation sunset would be pretty cool though.
[22:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:55] <exec> 08└─Your point #3 is pretty interesting. Banks not owning an industry top-to-bottom? What does that even look like? That will be fun to watch.
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─Nice. It looks like you get a better selection than we do. If you want sugarfree here in oz you get artificial sweeteners, bottled water, or have to find some obscure brand in a health food shop.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:50] <exec> 08└─You're just completely out of your mind. I mean, really. You honestly think someone will throw a nuke over that? Even the most simplistic of brains, would realise that would lead to more nukes, not a resolution. If China threw a nuke, it'd be nuked with 10x the response. And sanctions. And driven ba...
[22:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:52] <exec> 08└─Hmmm Macau? I do not think you know how dirty the gambling industry is.
[22:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the nice receipt. I think I will give it a try. When I said i was not giving it a try it was because I was thinking of buying bottled sterile water. The concern, is that as pointed in your receipt, you need to boil it somewhere and boiling pot may have surfaces which are not sterile. Thus...
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[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─Oils for plastics and such don't necessarily need to come from dead dinosaurs. That just happens to be an already available and relatively inexpensive source.
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─You mean, Americans are too civilized. They have a lot more to lose misbehaving than 14th-century barbarians do.
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:38] <exec> 08└─This is where the useful idiots show a bit of usefulness. They've been Chicken Little-ing for a long time now and investments have been being made for decades so that you can now buy a fully electric vehicle if you so choose. In general, it's a good rule of thumb to pay attention to what the Chicken...
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─Civilized people are not social darwinists. Civilized people don't let kids die of some disease because their parents made poor choices in life. Civilized people don't support the death penalty. Civilized people don't freely, willingly and knowingly choose mentally unstable, narcissitic, child-moles...
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─I think we should be making a lot of plastics from plant material. Fertilizers are made from methane [forbes.com], and not oil.
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but I wonder if it will be more environment friendly. So far any alternative to oil is either questionable or outright more dangerous than oil. I am also very suspicious about the strategy. See, an honest way would be to implement better than oil alternatives and only then remove oil from t...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Dafuq you talking about? Just put the crack pipe down, and step away from the keyboard. Oh, look, isn't that cute - you've got your online dictionary open to "civilized" and "social darwinists", but you didn't need to look up "child-molesting".
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─I assumed that when people say oil what they really mean is hydrocarbons from fossils. BTW, even the last part - fossils - is controversial.
[23:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:17] <exec> 08└─THIS.
[23:35:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─There have been several stories about pulling water from the atmosphere, in the past year or so. That's cool and all, but, how does that fit into the big picture? Isn't the net effect to make the area yet more arid? Pulling your drinking water from the air is really cool - even I could probably surv...
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─How about the unsweetened soda/seltzer waters that are all the rage [convenience.org] with [qz.com] millennials [usatoday.com] right now? If you or OP are just looking for caffeine, maybe it's time to put caffeine pills [healthline.com] on the table as an option. I used to take multiple 200mg pills...
[23:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:59] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think nukes will fly over this. What I do see though is total ignorance Canada's government as well as Canada's citizens demonstrate. They have no clue whatsoever about the consequences because they do not know the culture they are dealing with. Canada will pay for this dearly. I don't k...
[23:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:31] <exec> 08└─Check out Mastodon. Lots of outright hang-the-capitalists talk there, well-salted with capital-is-evil, and various flavours of sexual politics as well.
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