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[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─Unless they think they are not the media. Seems like typical lefty aggrandizing about how much better they are and if we just believe them since one time, in a different country, someone else was persecuted for criticizing that foreign government. I don't see blurbs about the persecution of Julian A...
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─By that logic he was just as bad as any member of the Reagan administration....
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─blurbs about the persecution of Julian Assange or Alex Jones.
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─I guess Donald Trump turned them down again this year, so the went to the other side of the street...
[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─Who says they aren't opposed? You? Strawman much?
[00:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─I didn't mention "murder". I mentioned a "murderous act".
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─Here, just from today, with Daily Mirror telling a lot more of the truth than virtually every other news outlet: https://i.redd.it [i.redd.it]
[00:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:29] <exec> 08└─Probably. If telling massive porkies to Congress while under oath is not a crime, why would identity theft be?
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, my experiment finished successfully, we can confirm the chain reaction can be initiated. The chain reaction itself is not my problem.
[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─Heh! You reckon if the 50 superhero movies were not cheap they would be good?
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─Seems like traditional methods of gene editing are even less ethical. It's called humor, folks.
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─Especially when she's a drunkard you met on Tinder for casual sex? That's not against the law.
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─The Chinaverse will have about the same proportion of black superheroes, in order to deepen the friendship with African vassal states.
[00:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─We could change that. (Seeing as how we as a species are prone to warrantless prejudices anyway.)
[00:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:32] <exec> 08└─Did you read the asterisk?
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─Why do you say "They are wrong."? They are correct. They're just quite difficult to compute with, so nobody uses them anymore. But Newtonian physics, which is wrong in exactly the same way (to a smaller degree), is used all the time. Most people don't bother to remember that the heliocentric model i...
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:07] <exec> 08└─The last I heard there were three or four major theories in contention for how solar systems came into being. There wasn't one "standard model". Even if there had been, the replacement of one model with another isn't anything to be upset about. The verifiable predictions of the old model keep workin...
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─The real fun part will be when you come back to the United States and the government doesn't find the data on you that they're expecting to. For that matter, when you try to leave the country on your passport that may trip you up also. Either way, you will become a person of interest because you're...
[00:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:45] <exec> 08└─The 'gas' station owner has no responsibility to police the rest of society. They sell people 'gas.'
[00:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:47] <exec> 08└─But but but but but they have self-nominated themselves to be in-charge!
[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─It's the study of spaces.
[00:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─Shoudn't it be beating everyone in the stock market by now?
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─It is. Mr. AI found out that high frequency trading is the way to make money.
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[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─Getting the game is easy, but having once again to boot from the DOS floppy in order to have enough free space in the 640kB could be a problem.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Doom still has an active modding community, and part of that is making level sets like this one. It's cool to see Romero himself doing a new one though. I'm guessing you could get a legitimate copy from Good Old Games or fire up DOSBOX if you still have a version on floppy that will actually load.
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─DOOM ran in about 600k plus 1-2MB of XMS/EMM. Getting to 600k in DOS was fairly easy. Past 620 or so and you are in for a bit of challenge. These days use one of the open source ones (which he did) or DOSBox.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─https://zdoom.org/index [zdoom.org]
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, god, those memories. Tuning your system to get enough memory for the game. Who decided that 640kb should enough forever? I had many different templates to boot into DOS with support for different games. Thank God for the developers of DOSBOX and our newer emulators.
[01:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─That made me think of George HW. The guy who was great friends with bin Laden's family, and who actually did fund him.
[01:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:39] <exec> 08└─Wonder where those stories went.
[01:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:41] <exec> 08└─Just because you misunderstand simple terms doesnt mean the educated do.
[01:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:44] <exec> 08└─What they take things out of context then twist them to fit whatever they want? Maybe you are not as smart as you pretend to be. That is just an example from *today*. If you want you can find you things from a hundred years ago if it would make you feel better about your 'education'. They are straig...
[01:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:46] <exec> 08└─Its a simple timeline shift.
[01:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:48] <exec> 08└─If I read DeathMonkey incorrectly, he probably means the vendetta those who control the DNC have for a very important journalist who is currently in grave danger: Julian Assange. Khashoggi's fate shows what happens to those who speak truth to power. Journalists like Julian Assange are heroes who lit...
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─"There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes." The President Obama...
[01:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:03] <exec> 08└─Looks like the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prizes: Politician: I'm going to pull out of Iraq! Nobel: Awesome stuff man! Here's a Peace prize! With a capital 'P'! Politician: Thank you. I'm so glad this went to someone so deserving as myself. Nobel: You're welcome! Politician: Changed my mind, Iraq is...
[01:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:41] <exec> 08└─Obama, very stupidly, wanted to give away our Internet to foreigners. To Russia, to China, to Iran, to Syria -- Animal Assad -- to Canada -- Justin with the Bong. To so many countries that, I won't call them enemies. They're competitors -- very tough competitors. And so many of them say, "oh, death...
[01:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:28] <exec> 08└─Here it is in four easy steps. 1) Create scammy site offering some semblance of product 2) Find legitimate sources of software similar to your product and then spam google etc to remove those sites from their listings. 3) Wait for your site to rise in rankings as other valid sites above you are vani...
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[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:43] <exec> 08└─or hasn't this been known about for a long time. It seems as if I read about this maybe 10-20 years ago. But then people have always said I've been a little strange.
[02:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:45] <exec> 08└─No, the news keeps reporting the same crap with a couple new details added as great discoveries of the age. It is the result of NHST, which leads to endless publications but kills all scientific progress.
[02:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:47] <exec> 08└─Why not both? I'm pretty sure it has been well known for a while now that the biosphere goes down a long way. The thing that looks weird to me is how they're trying to explain it's size it terms of tonnes of carbon. That seems like an odd way to measure any ecosystem. This just looks like a new st...
[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:49] <exec> 08└─Am I going crazy
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─the biosphere goes down
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─This may be where all our oil comes from, and why we keep finding more... What does this stuff eat? Does it taste like chicken?
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─This may be where all our oil comes from Yep, it's deep, dark biosphere poop.
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─Are we still doing phrasing?
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, God, is sourceforge still a thing?
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─You are painting with your broad brush again.
[02:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─An article on wswswswsws today may be relevant to your journalistic insterests. UK government’s role in anti-Corbyn campaign exposed [wsws.org] It's likely the entire MSM is compromised by the intelligence services, as in the intelligence services aren't merely "anonymous sources." It's impossible...
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─The administration is in shambles and only the opposition in the media and congress can save us.
[02:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:51] <exec> 08└─3. (after answering to 1.) Are you sure the cure is not worse than the illness? (re the "opposition in congress")
[02:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:53] <exec> 08└─Can't we just, like, drone them or something?
[02:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─I'm plenty opposed to killing people to silence their speech. It's hard to comment while you're napping though. It's also hard not to shake your head in disgust when someone picks themselves for an award.
[02:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─Also their "well actually" is technically wrong, the worst kind of wrong. It only applied to common people. In the US, clergy are tried under common law, not clerical law.
[02:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:07] <exec> 08└─Looks like a squashed sphere. Since it is spinning, centripetal forces are causing it to bulge at its equator.
[02:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:08] <exec> 08└─Excellent point, I was getting ready to make a similar comment. However, I still don't see why it's terribly surprising. We're talking about a near-Earth that's well within the frost line, and spends about half its orbit notably closer to the sun than Earth (perihelion of ~0.89AU). If there's water...
[02:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:22] <exec> 08└─There is a tautology here, but not how you've described it. "What if a sensor sensing a thing could be part of the thing itself?" Assume a sensor that always returns a positive result. Since the sensor is a part of the thing, the existence of the sensor is tied to the existence of the thing. If the...
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[03:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─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. ... What goes for the US goes for their running dogs, the Canadians, too.
[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─Not just consequences, but "grave consequences". Meng was arrested not for violating sanctions, but for lying to banks - fraud. Sales of iPhones were halted by a court of law decision based on patent violations by Apple. https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─Herp-a-derr. This has been a long time coming, and I think it needs to shake itself out, but the US is in a really bad position here...
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:04] <exec> 08└─So, to punish America Chinese companies are banning iPhones, which are manufactured in China and employee scads of Chinese workers? I don't think they thought that through.
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─It is the result of NHST
[03:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:13] <exec> 08└─Seems like murdering a journalist would be something the people who are always going on about free speech would be opposed to...
[03:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:14] <exec> 08└─Add The Root [theroot.com] to that list. After befriending a white child at her school, Adams was told to end her life by other students. “She was being bullied the entire school year, with words such as ‘kill yourself,’ ‘you think you’re white because you ride with that white boy,’ ‘y...
[03:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:17] <exec> 08└─This. It's very overrated. Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be "Man (Person) of the Year" like in 2016, but I would have to agree to an interview and a MASSIVE photo shoot. I said, probably is no good -- and took a pass. Thanks anyway! It used to be Man of the Year. Even when...
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─It probably does not matter if it is true or not; not much anyway. Now the Pandora box is open and everybody have to do it because there is no guarantee that others don't, while it is obviously possible; in secret mind you. The race for a perfect solder is on.
[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:56] <exec> 08└─It's more interesting than that. The country is boiling. There are 500 protests going on per day; some are better described as revolts. There is a profession "revolt organizer"; it works like this. Say one's child is raped by local police and no justice to be found. Parents go to a revolt organizer,...
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[03:38:19] <exec> 08└─When there were only a few TLDs, it made sense to register them all to yourself so you could protect your website and brand. Thus, the customer was effectively held up at gunpoint by the registrars and paid protection money in the form of redundant domain name registrations : one per TLD. But now th...
[03:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─whole app eco-system.
[03:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:00] <exec> 08└─We've lived in "vacation destination for the western world, Florida" forever, why would we pay a bunch of money and deal with all the airport/ground transport/hotel hassle to leave?
[03:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:02] <exec> 08└─2 doesn't sound right. TFS says they are pirate sites.
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[04:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:41] <exec> 08└─So the chinese will buy any other smartphone... which is made in China, by the same employees, on their next shift. I think they've thought it through just fine.
[04:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone on this forum is surprised. The question is, whether Washington and it's allies have thought this through. Who has the power, and the stamina, to play this game to it's end? Do we have the willingness to make a few sacrifices? Bear in mind that we've spent the past few decades w...
[04:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─Yep, playing the polically obsessed people: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─In an interview with Reuters, Mr. Trump said he would consider intervening in her case. “Whatever’s good for this country, I would do,” he said.
[04:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:49] <exec> 08└─Sales of iPhones were halted by a court of law decision based on patent violations by Apple.
[04:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:51] <exec> 08└─But you have a leverage. Confiscate all Chinese bought properties in Hongcouver.
[04:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─If China really retaliated for Meng Wanzhou, then they just escalated a conflict with the US to Canada. I don't see your reason for tough talk here. If there really is evidence of fraud, it's a losing battle to defend her, particularly with the capricious arrests of foreign nationals from countries...
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─Do we have the willingness to make a few sacrifices?
[04:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─We might not have been fighting a trade war, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a trade war. We were just losing. If we don't try, then we continue to lose. Trump might not win, but at least he is trying, which gives him a chance. There is no chance if you refuse to fight.
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Trump is indicating that the arrest may be politically motivated too.
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─Habitable zone got to be extended for all the planets out there, plus asteroids should have spores galore.
[04:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:19] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Personally, I'm deep into crazy past the point I can even understand what you are asking. (grin. Should I have grinned in my prev comment too?)
[04:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:36] <exec> 08└─Memories of troubleshooting games in DOS are best left in the dustbin of history.
[04:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:38] <exec> 08└─Who decided that 640kb should enough forever?
[04:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:40] <exec> 08└─Excuse me? I prefer to worship imaginary sky vagina. Don't make assumptions.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, dude. Loosen up. You live in a world of total absolutes. You should try some of that legal weed if it's available where you're at. You could benefit. I also recommend a spirit journey. I didn't really understand who or what I was, other than book knowledge, until I went on one.
[04:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:29] <exec> 08└─They're making money off of advertisements when people visit the website. This is entirely different from selling the content itself.
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[05:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:29] <exec> 08└─This suffers from the obvious problem. The authors decide which beliefs are true, and then judge that all who disagree with the authors are in denial of the truth. Ahem. It just may be that the authors are in denial of the truth. This is how I and many of their research subjects would judge them.
[05:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:30] <exec> 08└─That fault would prove their point about *tribe before truth* even better. It applies even to them. I didn't see it. How much money was involved again? Is there more coming?
[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:32] <exec> 08└─How much money was involved again? Is there more coming?
[05:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─You're saying they did exactly what they accuse their subjects of doing? Say it ain't so! Seriously though, how some fucking retards can be all "yay socialism" on the one hand and "boo tribalism" on the other boggles the mind. Socialism is tribalism. Hell, it's tribalism at the expense of self. Here...
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─It's all politics. When a politician says "fraud" it means whatever he wants it to mean. The Ecuadorian Hermit got indicted by Sweden for unprotected sex, but we know better.
[05:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:58] <exec> 08└─That's the free country problem. The volunteer has to volunteer willfully. In China (see the article) volunteering is mandatory, and refusniks will be heavily fined.
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─Do you really want China to confiscate all our factories on their land? They'd do that in a millisecond.
[05:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:03] <exec> 08└─Movies turned to shit when the (((executives))) started pursuing the Chinese market. Hopefully they'll be forced to satisfy Western audiences again.
[05:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:05] <exec> 08└─The alternative is, of course, Capitalism, whereby people are not forced to pay for services they don't want (such as bombing countries, rebuilding those countries poorly, and throwing people into cages for growing plants in their own homes).
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─When a politician says "fraud"
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─If the US jury says "fraud", then a Chinese people's court will sentence a US citizen for the same charge. They cannot care less what twelve US citizens believed to.
[05:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:46] <exec> 08└─Getting the game is easy, but having once again to boot from the DOS floppy in order to have enough free space in the 640kB could be a problem.
[05:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:48] <exec> 08└─I can (and occasionally do) run Doom/Heretic/Hexen on Doomsday Engine [dengine.net], the latest version (Linux/Win/Mac) of which can be had from here [dengine.net]. Just import the WAD, then Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your granny!
[05:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:30] <exec> 08└─No one does
[05:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:54] <exec> 08└─Newtonian physics is used because it is simple to compute. Epicycles are not used because they are annoying to compute. They are used/unused for exactly opposite reasons. Just like people use MOND which is simple algebra instead of lambda-CDM whenever it matters.
[05:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:37] <exec> 08└─They also hit people heavily with the "build a brand" or "differentiate yourself" or "inspire confidence." One of my friends fell for those. He is a partner in an accounting firm, name changed to protect the innocent "Miller & Smith Accountants." They paid over $100 for MillerAndSmith.Accountants an...
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[06:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─It is called "Big Science". Has no connection to actual science, has to do with funding. If you pay enough, you can buy a governor of Wisconsin. But that is neither here nor there. Real science is about truth, and that is why Americans are so opposed to it. Americans: opposed to truth. There it is,...
[06:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:08] <exec> 08└─Says the fucking Choctaw Siwash bastard! You got serious issues, TMB! VERY Serious issues. My Cherokee great-grandmother had a term for tribal members like you, and it was not complimentary.
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─Meh, you've trolled better. Either you need more ethanol or less.
[06:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─Socialism is tribalism at the expense of self? Piketty's three centuries of economic data have shown societies (or "tribes" if you like) with high inequalty LOSE economically... and yes, even relative elites suffer the consequences, though I guess if one is a social darwinist one might be willing to...
[06:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─It's no consensus. Something’s happening and it’ll change back again. I don’t know that it’s man made. We have scientists that disagree with that one. We did a very big, very expensive report. 4th National Climate Assessment. 1600 pages, folks. And nothing to worry about there. You’d have...
[06:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:17] <exec> 08└─So this is where the White supremacists think they can take on the liberals, eh? What a bunch of incestuous losers! Matthew Heimbach can suck my, um, his mother-in-laws cock! There! The circle is complete, and pure whiteness will flow from the, OMG, what the hell do they think they are doing? Tribe,...
[06:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─Eds accepted this, over an aristarchus submission? I am seriously starting to question both the mental competence and the ideological orientation of the SN staff. Seriously, Eds? Seriously? (Starting to suspect that "SoylentNews Ed" is a tribe, and evidently a Mighty Buzzard affiliated Tribe. )
[06:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:52] <exec> 08└─They cannot care less what twelve US citizens believed to.
[06:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:12] <exec> 08└─Deep Carbon Mining in 3, 2, ... bet you the Big Oil are looking at how to cook this into crude already. Some of this "sampling" may be be funded by them.
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[07:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:42] <exec> 08└─See you in court! Love, Dumbcast and Verizoff.
[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:43] <exec> 08└─It's important to note that Comcast only offered to reach 96% of households, while the municipal plan will reach 100%. It would be interesting to compare costs if Comcast guaranteed to reach 100% of households -- we all know the remaining 4% will be the most expensive to reach.
[07:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:46] <exec> 08└─And you can conquer... a small Massachusetts town, and tomorrow, the world! You don't have to vote for bling. Do the same with your politicians, and all will be well.
[07:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─Represent the khallow tribe! They are mean! They are flush! They love them some rich dudes! And, they have hand-sign. Not saying what it is, but it is definitely mos gangsta! You rock, khallow! You and your tribe! Of, . . . one?
[07:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:08] <exec> 08└─Well it is Scientific American, usually respected publication.
[07:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps high inequalty is a predictor of impending failure, but that doesn't mean you can avert the failure by brutally enforcing a reduction in inequality. You're assuming high inequality is a cause of problems, not a symptom of problems. Even if it were the cause, your cure may be worse than the d...
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[07:34:13] <exec> 08└─I may agree with leftists regarding at least some of the science of global warming, but I'll deny that. This has nothing to do with the social risk issue. It has everything to do with what comes next, after you get agreement on global warming. You want massive government control of the economy, hurt...
[07:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:15] <exec> 08└─Herpee derpee doooo *mating call of mighty buzzards*
[07:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:44] <exec> 08└─We were in a Trade War with China for many years. But we had VERY WEAK leaders. Who wouldn't fight for America. Who wouldn't even call it a War. They made so many UNFAIR Treaties. The Postal Treaty, the TPP, so many. China was absolutely killing us on trade. 2017, we lost $375 billion from our Coffe...
[07:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was. And maybe it wasn't. Who knows? Who really knows?
[07:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:48] <exec> 08└─From the article "How Meng Wanzhou's Arrest Might Backfire" (link above), we have this observation: the rule of law works well only when tempered with a high degree of discretion
[07:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:50] <exec> 08└─People are afraid of a nuclear war, which is the end result of any war between nuclear powers. That is called being smart not coward. The truth of the matter is that there are a large number of people who are living in incredibly gifted lands but they are being slowly decimated because they are not...
[07:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe he is quoting Archer. [urbandictionary.com]
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[07:40:38] <exec> 08└─All of the big players are limited by the throughput of these scanners and need more. Now, GF is no longer purchasing EUV so that may alleviate some demand (although that probably has been accounted for already). The main customers are Intel, TSMC, Samsung. Maybe some destined for China (SMIC?), but...
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[08:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─If you have non-bling politicians, that is.
[08:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─You must be new in this world.
[08:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─You have to nominate and vote for them. That's how you can work the system in the U.S.
[08:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:39] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, build a wall and keep the savages out. Wow
[08:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:41] <exec> 08└─Real science is about truth, and that is why Americans are so opposed to it. Americans: opposed to truth. There it is, I have said it, and it is true.
[08:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:43] <exec> 08└─Because if you don't try anything at all, you know you'll lose? True, you don't necessary mean you need to try socialism, but starting with a 'my way or anything else is socialism' will surely get you nowhere.
[08:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:45] <exec> 08└─The article is actually very reasonable. At its foundation, it says that "proficient reasoners are revealed to be using their analytical skills to ferret out evidence that supports their group’s position, while rationalizing dismissal of such evidence when it undermines their side’s beliefs." Th...
[08:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:47] <exec> 08└─how some fucking retards can be all "yay socialism" on the one hand and "boo tribalism" on the other boggles the mind.
[08:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps then you would care to give examples of socialist states that have been resounding successes? No? Perhaps some nice solid Marxist ones then? surely the purity should help... That your false assertion is actually based on is that there is solid evidence that any successful system eventually l...
[08:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:52] <exec> 08└─Tenses, use them. In this case, any non-continuous past tense will do.
[08:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:54] <exec> 08└─Fuckin retard
[08:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:29] <exec> 08└─Meng was arrested in Canada. I suspect this is more of a tit-for-tat, and a message to Canada to stay out of the trade dispute politics.
[08:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: 0jk1zvN0AZ
[08:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:16] <exec> 08└─We understand very little, how one's DNA works and what chopping out one bit of DNA would actually do to someone. Sure, we can speculate, but what if that bit of DNA also does something that we didn't know? At what point are you doing science and at what point are you doing Dr. Evil "science"?
[08:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:40] <exec> 08└─You've just repeated what I've said, but a lot less clearly.
[08:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:06] <exec> 08└─Quoting "circumventing DRM instead, which means that there is no counter-notification option available." doesn't make things clearer, because it raises the question "why the different types of claims?". Oh, I raised that already.
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[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─Can't decide what makes it worse: the fact that it is clearly not holographic in any meaning of the word (it's basically a screen projection onto glass like a cars HUD); or the annoying laggy response to spoken queries. Then there's the shots of kids smiling and in awe... but we don't get to see if...
[09:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─The bad of shopping in real shops - limited inventory - time spent getting to the shop - no global competition driving down prices The good - interaction with real people The Holo elf removes the only advantage.
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─Ellie will point you to the Microsoft Store.
[09:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:37] <exec> 08└─I guess the state legislature in MA is too expensive for Comcast. [broadbandnow.com]
[09:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:39] <exec> 08└─"But the town would also bring in revenue from selling broadband service and potentially break even..." To whom would they be selling these services, if not to those who are already paying taxes, now more taxes, to the council? All "selling services" does is make the service as much more expensive a...
[09:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:41] <exec> 08└─That this is even a "news" shows how screwed up things are, be you a liberal or a conservative.
[09:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:16] <exec> 08└─Sadly, for Americans, I do not. They know it. Lincoln said it. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.         Now we are engaged in a great civil war, test...
[09:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:18] <exec> 08└─Same thing happened to BYTE! magazine as it went mainstream ca. 1990. Up until the point when they became a windows tips&hacks magazine, I'd read every single issue cover to cover and was my only education in CS.
[09:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:59] <exec> 08└─Nobody accuse Canuckistan for their "principles". Also, Air Canada is garbage.
[09:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:32] <exec> 08└─The only person who pops into mind when you talk about people wanting to kill journalists, is Hillary "can't-we-just-drone-assange" Clinton.
[09:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:34] <exec> 08└─The MSM isn't "lefty" -- lefties are get censored as hard as anyone -- the MSM is purely pro-oligarchy (whether that be the DNC scented variety or the GOP scented variety).
[09:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:36] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought it was literally impossible for black people to be racist under the modern definition of racism, you know the one that requires a person not merely be bigoted, but also "privileged".
[09:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:38] <exec> 08└─Poor aristarchus, killed by the eds of SoylentNews, cut up into little bits, loaded into diplomatic satchels, transported to foreign lands, fed to Buzzards. And yet they have the gall to post an article like this? Pot! Kettle! Bot! Incel! Irony meter broken for the umpteenth time, without irony. C...
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[10:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─Not a bad thing. I think the world really wants us to get along. And I'm working very hard on that one. I even met, very successfully, with President Putin. But unfortunately we have a history with Russia. A hole history. And so many Russians say, "oh, NASA drilled into our Space Station." As a SUPE...
[10:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:47] <exec> 08└─> The Trump administration has already proposed that by 2025 the United States should stop supporting the International Space Station https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "As of late 2010, the preferred plan is to use a slightly modified Progress s...
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─Kenya suffered a sort of hostage massacre situation in a huge mall. Somalian islamists did it. Christmas markets all over Europe are now protected by concrete and steel bollards to stop trucks of peace from running down children and otherwise spoiling the festivities. Minnesota's Mall of America is...
[10:34:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:09] <exec> 08└─It's important to note that Comcast only offered to reach 96% of households, while the municipal plan will reach 100%. It would be interesting to compare costs if Comcast guaranteed to reach 100% of households -- we all know the remaining 4% will be the most expensive to reach.
[10:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, nominate and vote for... who? In the current climate where political adversaries don't just debate issues, but attempt to destroy each other, what sane person would want to run for anything anymore?
[10:34:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:33] <exec> 08└─Socialism is tribalism at the expense of self? Piketty's three centuries of economic data have shown societies (or "tribes" if you like) with high inequalty LOSE economically... and yes, even relative elites suffer the consequences, though I guess if one is a social darwinist one might be willing to...
[10:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:52] <exec> 08└─just make sure you are on the right side of the wall when it is finished..
[10:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:54] <exec> 08└─Piketty
[10:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:32] <exec> 08└─Rule of law works well when legislators mind their own jurisdiction and take their jobs seriously. The US fails on both counts. US sanctions are mostly a childish attempt to harm political enemies. It's the same as bible-belt states passing arbitrary restrictions on abortion clinics. They haven't be...
[10:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheFool [7105] 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:03] <exec> 08└─Doom still has an active modding community, and part of that is making level sets like this one. It's cool to see Romero himself doing a new one though. I'm guessing you could get a legitimate copy from Good Old Games or fire up DOSBOX if you still have a version on floppy that will actually load.
[10:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:15] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. DOOM used DOS/4G [wikipedia.org] which means 32-bit protected mode. It didn't need any XMS/EMS driver and didn't need much conventional memory as long as there was around 3MB free in total between conventional and extended.
[10:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:05] <exec> 08└─So he doesn't have a (.)web address? Quick - tell he to sign up for one of those too! I'd be surprised if there isn't eventually a ".www" TLD. Personally, I have 4 .orgs (me + my g/f's personal sites, a shared personal site, one hobby-related domain) and 2 matching ones under relevant ccTLDs for our...
[10:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:48] <exec> 08└─So now we are going to find out that all those nights Snow claimed he was "getting some" he was actually sitting home with the wife and kid? Kind of like Walter Mitty?
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[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─Do you believe them?
[11:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:24] <exec> 08└─Trump, or rather his administration, *is* involved. There are on-going discussions over whether or not to extend the mission and - if so - what that might look like, how it might be funded, who will take part (which may not include the US/NASA), and for how long. So, while the current end of service...
[11:35:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:07] <exec> 08└─It is called "Big Science". Has no connection to actual science, has to do with funding. If you pay enough, you can buy a governor of Wisconsin. But that is neither here nor there. Real science is about truth, and that is why Americans are so opposed to it. Americans: opposed to truth. There it is,...
[11:35:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:15] <exec> 08└─Represent the khallow tribe! They are mean! They are flush! They love them some rich dudes! And, they have hand-sign. Not saying what it is, but it is definitely mos gangsta! You rock, khallow! You and your tribe! Of, . . . one?
[11:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:32] <exec> 08└─That's right, if you don't agree with someone's opinion, call them stupid / moron / imbecile / retard. Wins the argument every time. And it's much quicker and easier than thinking.
[11:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:13] <exec> 08└─*Nobody accuse Canuckistan for their "principles".* Now try typing a real sentence.
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[11:36:14] <exec> 08└─Chinese government doesn't give a fuck about Chinese workers. Much like the US in that respect.
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[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:25] <exec> 08└─Also, would it amout to corporate suicide to report otherwise? Would it be legal to do so? How honest have these guys been in the past? (dunno, honest question)
[12:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─They looked just hard enough (and definitely no more expensive than!) to later claim "we looked thoroughly at everything" and have it stand up to superficial evaluation by (security) management drones. I'll bet you lots of virtual AC-money that, were an experienced professional to look at what they...
[12:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the audit was performed by Kaspersky?
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─Do you believe them?
[12:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:34] <exec> 08└─Supermicro is HQd in the USA, you can't trust a word that they, or any other USAian body, says when the government has an interest in the public's belief about the matter at hand.
[12:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:36] <exec> 08└─"No Malicious Hardware‎" And yet they sell Intel.
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:47] <exec> 08└─It was to give the Europeans something to do other than endlessly shooting at each other. There are two tribes in Borneo who from time to time would launch attacks from each other. There would be a great many angry shouts, threatening gestures and brandishing of spears, until eventually just _one_ m...
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:49] <exec> 08└─I'd love nothing more than for the ISS to stay up there until The End Of Time. But stuff wears out. Solder joints eventually go bad. Plasticizer evaporates from plastic leading it to grow brittle. There's all manner of ways technology can age. In principle all the worn out stuff could be replaced, b...
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:51] <exec> 08└─Sure, but there is a big difference between "early termination" and "not extending". TFS heavily implies "early termination" although it isn't explicitly written, which is disingenuous.
[12:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 2408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─I've been to the Mall of America a few times. Last time was 2007. It's handily located next to the airport so one can just pop in. on the way to whatever business brings the traveler to Minneapolis. They had a giant display of Legos, lots and lots of stores, a small amusement park in the center, a f...
[12:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:19] <exec> 08└─Almost everybody pays for internet these days. The difference in this case is that they will be paying the money to their own town, instead of to Comcast. They are providing better coverage (100% vs 96%), and faster internet (Gigabit fibre vs HFC), and I would bet on more local jobs as well. The 'do...
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:21] <exec> 08└─I started saving fifty clams a month when I cancelled my slowest-tier Comcast Internet. Mind you, I don't watch TV however I listen to music 24/7, turned all the way up to eleven: mutual assured destruction. (Strangely, the neighbors don't complain.) I just use my iPhone 7/iOS 10.0.1 Personal Hotspo...
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[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─Read all about it https://www.theauthoritarians.org [theauthoritarians.org]
[12:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:02] <exec> 08└─Is realDonalTrump your alter-ego?
[12:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:45] <exec> 08└─In other words, because we have a country which is ruled by power rather than law, we need to compromise rule of law with an ample helping of "discretion" (which would not be necessary at all, if the target didn't have substantial economic and political muscle) and avoid a conflict which already exi...
[12:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:17] <exec> 08└─Other than murder or attempted murder, what would be a "murderous act"?
[12:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:39] <exec> 08└─Somewhere I read that the peace is not awarded for what one has actually done, but what one has the potential to do in the future. Yes that sounds like bullshit to me to, but that's what someone in the know actually said.
[12:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:40] <exec> 08└─For centuries, the epicycles were just as accurate as any other functional decomposition to within the errors of naked-eye measurement with the clocks of the day - often the observer's own pulse - and a hand-made transit. While Copernicus proposed that the orbits were all circular around the sun, he...
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[12:40:25] <exec> 08└─So as to demonstrate to your VCs that you're already... uh... "penetrating" the market.
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[13:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:10] <exec> 08└─The vote happened, UK should leave the EU and go back to whatever situation existed before or negotiate new treaties with everyone. Why is this taking so long? It seems like rejection of democracy.
[13:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:11] <exec> 08└─It seems like rejection of democracy.
[13:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:14] <exec> 08└─How about Theresa May's pending vote of no confidence? [bbc.com]
[13:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:16] <exec> 08└─Voting for Trump or voting for Brexit, can't decide the dumbest of the two. Either way a win for Vlad.
[13:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:18] <exec> 08└─UK Prime Minister facing no confidence vote, Governments facing no confidence votes in both France and Poland while the government of Belgium is pining for the fjords. The EU rejoices with its National Anthem [wikipedia.org] while insisting that nationalism is evil.
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─If there is true evidence found by CIA/NSA whoever of intentional malfeasance by the Chinese government, they wouldn't just yell "stop buying Chinese!". I would expect a significant diplomatic response, so far I haven't seen that.
[13:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─I'd love nothing more than for the ISS to stay up there until The End Of Time.
[13:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:03] <exec> 08└─Marx's critique of capitalism was unquestioned, both in the east and the capitalist west. The easts answer was socialism, and the wests answer was democratic socialism in the form of the high taxing welfare state. Post WWII the USA payed its domestic welfare bill, as well as the welfare bills of Eur...
[13:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─The USSR wasn't "communist", just as the DPRK isn't "democratic". I can't blame you though because both the USSRs and the USAs propaganda arms were repeating for half a century that the USSR was the ultimate definition of communism (each country for different reasons) - what hope did you have? Venez...
[13:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─Certain it was foreigners? Ajit Pai admitted it was in a legal filing. [soylentnews.org] So unless he's perjuring himself to frame the very people that gave him cover to do what he wanted, I's probably true.
[13:37:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─The FBI should be investigating the FCC and Pai himself for withholding evidence [arstechnica.com] of this. As I understand it, he did so even when requested by state prosecutors. That is obstruction of justice in every sense of the fucking word.
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[14:33:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:15] <exec> 08└─Your opinions match my opinions, which means we are smart since consensus equals correctness. That is why we must keep away all opinions we don't like, less consensus makes us dumber.
[14:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:16] <exec> 08└─We have already established what you are madam and we're just haggling about the price.
[14:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─She's not your pm. She's the eu's puppet. Brits you need to rise up and toss her into the channel.
[14:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:21] <exec> 08└─I voted for Brexit. I also voted for Scotland's independence. There's a rumour going round that all the people who voted for Brexit are looney right wing little englanders or fucking Unionists, this is not the case, I'm very left of centre (in USian terms I'd probably be what you used to call a comm...
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─Trump Administration Plans to End Support for the ISS by 2025 [soylentnews.org] Other countries want to stay until 2028. Just to debunk the claim that Trump is involved.
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:54] <exec> 08└─I'm probably being thick but from the linked summary: > A draft budget proposal would end support for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025. The U.S. was previously committed to operating at the ISS until 2024: which supports what I am saying, i.e. Trump administration is confirming previous...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─"Ellie the Elf"? So how long before she gets sexually harassed ...
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─The Mall of America is managed by the Triple Five Group (which in turn is owned by Canada's Ghermezian family, along with the West Edmonton Mall).
[14:34:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:28] <exec> 08└─Almost everybody pays for internet these days. The difference in this case is that they will be paying the money to their own town, instead of to Comcast. They are providing better coverage (100% vs 96%), and faster internet (Gigabit fibre vs HFC), and I would bet on more local jobs as well. The 'do...
[14:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─What is this "TV" thing? Some kind of podcast?
[14:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:14] <exec> 08└─> The USSR wasn't "communist", just as the DPRK isn't "democratic". No. They were just run by evil people who believed in communism and socialism. They demonstrated that the adherents to communism and socialism have no morals, will kill dozens of millions (or more if given the chance). Marxist Socia...
[14:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:16] <exec> 08└─Take it as a cautionary tale, and pity us. We didn't elect Trump. The Republicans committed massive voting fraud and cheated their way into office. That's the kind of fools they are. Rather than try to win an election honestly, they show their utter moral bankruptcy by resorting to cheating, and the...
[14:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─I admire the score of 5 and the accompanying moderation of 'disagree'. Does 5 mean strongly disagree, or that it's a great comment--full of what we want to see at Soylent as a component of the back-and-forth exchanges between contributors and a reason to return and read some more--but unfortunately...
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:00] <exec> 08└─US sanctions are mostly a childish attempt to harm political enemies.
[14:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:45] <exec> 08└─Am I a rarity in that I expect to play this on a Windows 98 laptop running wireless Novell IPX/SPX from the command prompt? I've got a Voodoo3 card, a roland sound canvas daughterboard on a Soundblaster 32 AWE card, and the best docking station available for the laptop in question. I migrated the di...
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:34] <exec> 08└─Media is what the original Nazis complained about.
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[15:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:00] <exec> 08└─Anyone is free to use any other search engine. Also anyone can build their own search engine. A similar thing happened when Wikipedia was affected by the fact that reality has a liberal bias. The result was Conservapedia. [conservapedia.com] Nothing is stopping anyone from building a search engine t...
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:02] <exec> 08└─But the urge to vomit everytime a Congressperson spoke was too great. Now looking back at that, I'm wondering whether that compulsion is based on some brain fuckage pumped into my noggin' over the years by mainstream news. Like maybe it is an induced subconscious to divert people away from watching...
[15:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:04] <exec> 08└─Gangs of liberals roam Wikipedia, because that's what you do when you're unemployed and otherwise worthless to society. Cities have liberal politics, because they have liberal populations (one man one vote), because layabouts clamoring for handouts must follow the money like groupies follow the rock...
[15:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:06] <exec> 08└─We have a bunch of high tech companies claiming that "regulation is needed". We have congressional hearings. When do we get to see the new laws for which these theatrics are paving the way?
[15:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:08] <exec> 08└─My state forces me to slavery for google, having to work as a human classifier in order to get a driving license.
[15:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:11] <exec> 08└─Stop being silly. You can't see the new laws until they are passed. Can we just vote on it now?
[15:33:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:23] <exec> 08└─Voting for Trump or voting for Brexit, can't decide the dumbest of the two. Either way a win for Vlad.
[15:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─> She's the eu's puppet. She really isn't.
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─Rant mode: 4. The EU, while having stupendous legislative powers, is only slightly democratic. You know, UK was founder of democracy in the modern era, and this second-hand, second-rate democracy in EU is crap. 5. As an aside, the total failure of the EU to respond to Brexit with any meaningful chan...
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─my reasons for voting to leave the Fourth Reich are very simple.
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─I like the way it his become blindingly obvious to even the dumbest sheeple in the herd over the past couple of months that the politicians they vote for are clueless mendacious self-centred and self-serving backstabbing weasel mouthed duplicitous arseholes.
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─> my "Yes Minister" collection has nothing on this train wreck... dig out the eurosausage episode, just for nostalgia's sake
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─The common market was about trade, the EU that followed it is grabbing for political power. Brexiteers, stand strong. Perhaps it will make the other people wake up and wrest the EU away from the appointed, third rate politicians in the Commission.
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─My Supermicro is powered by Opteron. If/when something better than Opteron happens, I may go with it. At this point in time, Opteron seems the best thing going, and Supermicro supports it quite well. I'm considering an upgrade to a newer, faster board. I deserve a nice Christmas present.
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. AFAIK, Kaspersky does not use Faith Based audit methodology that would be a requirement in the eligibility selection criteria.
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Yep. Whenever a TLA reveals something big, that revelation implies something about how the big revelation was discovered. Conspiracy theory: Bloomberg's article author is a conspiracy theorist, or is working to help our Tirade War.
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─Then call it 3D In case we forgot the difference, A hologram changes perspective when viewed from different angles
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─those of identity-protective cognition." Really that is the crux of the article. It is largely true in my experience. It is easier to do bad things if you have less understanding of the outcome. Thus greater literacy creates more acute cognitive dissonance because we become more aware of the costs o...
[15:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:41] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling you'd rather destroy my culture though
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─Chickasaw and/or Cherokee, thanks. And yeah, old indian women tend to be pretty good with an insult.
[15:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:29] <exec> 08└─People are afraid of a nuclear war, which is the end result of any war between nuclear powers. That is called being smart not coward.
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─Of course, it is. But the US has a lot of treaties with a lot of countries. Is China going to absurdly tit-for-tat every time, potentially pulling in many other countries into the trade dispute while simultaneously futilely sending out that "message"?
[15:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─LOL, while you were watching for someone to step forward, all the rest of us took five steps back. It's just you on the front line now.
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─So tell me, why the hell should the USA have the right to tell China and Iran that they cannot trade?
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─I'd never heard of Vavoom (I see it has not been updated for a long time), despite being moderately active in Doom circles. But that's only one of several "modern" versions of Doom executables (called "Doom ports"), the most popular of which seems to be PRBoom+ followed by ZDoom (mentioned here). PR...
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[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─What is a "google+ user"?
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─There's 52 million Google+ users? Wow, colour me surprised.
[16:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:19] <exec> 08└─That is bleeding edge technology, made by the chocolate factory, that collects more private data ripe for abuse. Apparently, they forgot to ask for payment while anybody could suck the database clean. That was an oversight. This will be rectified shortly. The near future access to all data will only...
[16:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:21] <exec> 08└─"Touché" [google.com]
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─United States >>> UK >> Canada > Australia >>> NZ New Zealand has already passed various anti-encryption laws, and Australia is in the process of doing so. The UK and Canada and the US have had discussions about doing so for a long time, and it's currently being trialed in Oceania, with the ultimate...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:38] <exec> 08└─No, the tech companies are saying very much the opposite of "regulation is needed"? Where the fuck did you get that?
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─Fake news.
[16:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 2836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:42] <exec> 08└─I subbed it, not martyb. While I ripped a story from CNBC, I did watch about 20 minutes or so of the testimony. It was quite bad, and even worse when you fact checked some of the "specifics" Congressmen had brought up (about bias against conservatives and such). Who can forget the cringe "my grandda...
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─In other words, you are a moron who just wants the world to burn.
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn't think of the European Union, but they're a foe. But that doesn't mean they are bad. It doesn't mean anything. It means that they are competitive. I respect the leaders of those countries. But, in a trade sense, they'...
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─The UK wants to leave the EU. OK. The UK *doesn't* want to go back to whatever situation existed before: - the UK has greatly benefited from the low-friction trade the past 40 years, so much even, that they believe it will magically continue once they exited the EU, and is in no way caused by their...
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─In other words, you are a moron who just wants the world to burn.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─Why is this taking so long?
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─You can be as smart as you want, and even as smart as you think you are. You still lost both votes.
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─I believe they chose to sit in a sensory deprivation chamber as well as actively not retrieve their own memories in order to make this claim. I used to work with a guy who's tried to pull this shit every day of the week as he wrecked the software. First time or two I thought this could have been a t...
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[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that malls are obsolete, the problem is that Americans have forgotten how to run a business. Perhaps because they only hire people from B-schools who don't ever rock the boat, rather than promoting talent from within. Radio shaft, while never great, was a source to get parts for e...
[16:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─Comcast as most ISPs being virtually a monopoly are just extractive business. They extracts wealth from local residents, funneling money from people´s pockets to corporate accounts while providing the minumum posible value in return. Municipalities are not profit for the most part but service drive...
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─You're asserting that it's not? You do understand the basic mechanics of socialism, yes? I mean, shit, the entire premise behind socialism and communism is that the needs of the tribe outweigh the needs of any individual.
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, that would be "Hey, you in the mood for some wild monkey sex this weekend?" or a reasonable approximation thereof of late. Effectiveness has been pretty solid.
[16:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:23] <exec> 08└─The same people who shit on tribalism spout the benefits of socialism. They genuinely don't understand the lunacy of holding those contradictory positions, which makes them unqualified to publish research in the field.
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:26] <exec> 08└─My personal opinion, the Disagree mode is available to prevent abuse of the Spam/Flamebait mods. Generally, the comment will have both Interesting and Insightful mods giving the +5 score, and the Disagree mod (+0) because the moderator holds the comment in contention. Without the Disagree mod, the c...
[16:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, it didn't die with their malware packaging blunder.
[16:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:02] <exec> 08└─Run Win98 on the modern internet at your own risk. May cause cancer in the state of California.
[16:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:27] <exec> 08└─I'm just going to start swinging my fists around; it's not my fault your face happens to be in the way.
[16:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:28] <exec> 08└─It's not a game and shouldn't ever be treated as such. (Though, I assume, you were just using it as a turn of phrase.) Slicing an unborn babies' DNA in bits, is more ethical than a one-night stand? I'm going to have to go with, No. You have it precisely backwards, unless there was not a consensual a...
[16:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─The government forces people to fund scientists with competing ideas. After 100s of billions of dollars, it would be unconscionable to have to admit that the universe is not, in fact, filled with dark matter liquid.
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[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─not likely active users. more like all accounts on the current roles.
[17:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─Why? When they wanted it to take off just about every Google service came with a bunch of "You probably want to make a Google+ account to do <whatever you are doing>, click here to sign up" buttons.
[17:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:09] <exec> 08└─When are these companies going to start being held accountable for these fuck ups? If they want to hover in data like there is no tomorrow, they should be responsible for it. If they are unwilling to be responsible, they should not be allowed to carry on.
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─Clicked the link hoping for pictures of his wife nekkid. Alas, only pictures of naked penguins, naked fish, and naked octopussy. At least we know Linus' fetishes now.
[17:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:13] <exec> 08└─You're not supposed to put how you want people to mod your post in your post. That's unfair. +5 insightful, informative.
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─Just because you shouldn't doesn't mean you can't.
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─Google claim their platform has no political bias, as if it could not possibly do so. However, they are more than willing to announce (loudly) that they will fix their machine learning models whenever someone else says they show bias against women, or a minority group. You can't have it both ways, G...
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─"I had thought Google was still planning to go ahead with it." I was kindof weirded out by this whole thing. Didn't Google try and do this years ago? If I remember right, it ended with them ripping out all their racks overnight so they wouldn't be "appropriated". So it kindof looks like a suckers ga...
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Gangs of liberals roam Wikipedia, because that's what you do when you're unemployed and otherwise worthless to society. Cities have liberal politics, because they have liberal populations (one man one vote), because layabouts clamoring for handouts must follow the money like groupies follow the rock...
[17:33:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─I like the way it his become blindingly obvious to even the dumbest sheeple in the herd over the past couple of months that the politicians they vote for are clueless mendacious self-centred and self-serving backstabbing weasel mouthed duplicitous arseholes.
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─5. As an aside, the total failure of the EU to respond to Brexit with any meaningful change bodes ill for the rest of Europe. I can't see how EU can continue.
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─Article 50 said "MAX 2 years", though. Sorry for the nitpicking.
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─One thing I don't understand is why everyone is dumping so hard on May. May didn't do the Brexit vote. She came into power after the douchebags that pushed the Brexit vote said, "Oh shit!" and fucked off. May was given a pile of manure the size of the Eiffel Tower and told to somehow make Filet Mign...
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Yet leave voters are the ones who are called "thick" and "fascistic"?
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─Is Brexit good or bad for the UK? Long-term, it depends. Short-term, it is cataclysmically bad for a fairly small group of wealthy people who have spent the last 60 years profiting from low-tariff, low-friction international trade. What Brexit in the UK, and Trump's election in the US, represents is...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─In a new development in the past day or two, it appears that Theresa May is facing a vote of no confidence. We'll see if there is a governmental shakeup or not in the next few hours. https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] For those unaware, a successful vote of no confidence would f...
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─She clearly did not Brexit to happen. From the outside looking in, it seems like she was buying time until somebody came up with a way to halt the process.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─> because sovereignty Let me help: 1. The EU has massive legislative power. They can't raise taxes or an army (yet) but otherwise they have as much or more power than the member state governments. 2. The EU is run by a group of unelected politicians. They are nominated by a political elite. I realis...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:26] <exec> 08└─Ireland should leave UK and combine with northern Ireland.
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─Political consensus is painful, takes forever, and nobody is ever happy with the result. But, it is absolutely necessary in a democracy. If they wanted it simple,the ruling Government could say, "Let the Queen decide it all." But they did not - they are choosing to let the mechanisms of democracy wo...
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─The vote happened, UK should leave the EU and go back to whatever situation existed before
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─If Brexit actually happens, I think that is inevitable. There is no more advantage to being a British subject in the Five Counties if there is no EU membership. The immediate term economic impact for England itself is going to be highly disruptive; I think anybody in Northern Ireland will look at ad...
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─An unaccountable commission tabling legislation proposed by the round table of industrialists in pursuit of political and economic expansionism that will apparently require an army.
[17:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopdevil [3356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─Finding such implants would be quite the challenge. You would actually need devices from the customer's production facility, after which you would be looking for a single misplaced grain of sand in 1000x of servers. If you are asking the people that already deny having any implants if they see any (...
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the US and Russia already play sports, and have quite the rivalry. It would be a shame, if Russia and the US would have a falling out in Space Science after such a long history of working together. Even when we were in the midst of the Cold War.
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─"annoying laggy response" That's what made the largest impression on me. It was the icing on the mediocrity cake.
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─They're more likely to die of old age rather than become the feared monopoly.Government is a vampire; it's a bad business that won't die, because it can just declare its income at the point of a gun—indeed, the worse it performs, the more likely its income is going to increase.
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─TV is convenient. Unfortunately, so is Facebook . . . Personally, I generally skip all news except Ars and Soylent. Upon rare occasion I hit up hackaday, but other than that I have too much to do and better things to unwind with after a long day.
[17:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─Wah wah wah! You're right, that sounds like an awfully lot of work. And BORING too! I too much prefer to bitch about my principles and liberties than to actually put in any effort, because let's be honest here, if the system was working well for all of us and I was doing pretty well, I'd have nothin...
[17:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:00] <exec> 08└─Podcasts are the old person's way of feeling like they're hip.
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:51] <exec> 08└─Because if you don't try anything at all, you know you'll lose?
[17:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:53] <exec> 08└─If you're unclear as to how moderation works on SoylentNews and other Slash/Rehash sites, I've attempted an explanation of that comment's moderation [soylentnews.org] in my journal.
[17:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─Some arguments are not worth engaging with, and it becomes easy after a while to tell which posts will result in more bullshit replies.
[17:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:28] <exec> 08└─May? Will, F-man, will.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought you said "journalists". He's a journalist like Sean Hannity is a journalist.
[17:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:54] <exec> 08└─...from their parents, while allowing their parents to raise their children without having to act like lepers seems like a good reason to test this treatment. Sure the kids could have unintended side effects and live horrible lives or die. But in many parts of the world that is already the truth tha...
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[18:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:23] <exec> 08└─I had to make a Google+ account for something... In any case, it is associated with a gmail account that I have had forever. That's what I am mad about. I expect to see an uptick in phishing email sent from authenticated sources for the next few months.
[18:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:25] <exec> 08└─Not only that, they pretty much force fed it to anyone with a g-mail account. Did the same with "Hang Outs".
[18:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─You want guarantees? Sign a goddamn contract. Otherwise, caveat emptor. If you're embarrassed by your poorly shaped body, quit walking around naked on your front porch.
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─From Washington Post [washingtonpost.com]: One Democratic lawmaker had a blunt message for his Republicans complaining about Google searches. “If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don’t want negative search results, don’t do negative things,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (Ca...
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Translation: That particular democrat agrees with Google's bias, and gets positive results from Google.
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─sounds good to me. bring on the war against privacy and encryption and i will become a wealthy dealer and will defend it more violently than pablo escobar.
[18:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─The UK wants to leave the EU. OK. The UK *doesn't* want to go back to whatever situation existed before: - the UK has greatly benefited from the low-friction trade the past 40 years, so much even, that they believe it will magically continue once they exited the EU, and is in no way caused by their...
[18:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─5. As an aside, the total failure of the EU to respond to Brexit with any meaningful change bodes ill for the rest of Europe. I can't see how EU can continue.
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─So in the US, the argument is basically that the mean and the median are not the same thing. To expand on that slightly, while free trade might benefit the economy as a whole, those benefits flow disproportionately (or even exclusively) to only a small fraction of the population. The majority is eit...
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with "no deal" is that it will really really screw up the UK's economy. Trade with the EU amounts to approximately 10% of the UK's GDP. For USAians who don't understand how big of a deal it is, this would be a loss approximately on the same scale as the US suddenly not having the entire...
[18:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─It was always about political union. The economic union was meant as as a means to that end.
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─However the re-election she held for gaining more power, which left her with less power than before, was entirely her fault, wasn't it?
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─"The real problem is that Brexit was always a stupid idea, and the politicians are now stuck trying to make that stupid idea not quite so stupid." centralization of power, especially to unelected parasites is incredibly stupid. if you can't control you local government what makes you think you can c...
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─One thing I don't understand is why everyone is dumping so hard on May.
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those people in Sunderland will really benefit when Nissan shuts down the assembly line there. Those who voted for Brexit were lied to.
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─I think that the UK getting rid of NI would be good for the UK. It's a huge money sink for the UK economy. The border issues go away, the drain on the UK economy goes away. Unfortunately, there is presently a majority of people in NI that want it to remain in the UK.
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─shut the fuck up about "democracy".
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─Either way a win for Vlad. *sigh* So sad to see the propaganda is so effective.
[18:35:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─"No Malicious Hardware‎" And yet they sell Intel.
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─everybody knows real windows users use norty!
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─If it was they would have found chips inserted by CIA and told the rest of us.
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─Could the ISS be brought down in pieces on the BFR?
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─What's flamebaity about parent? it is natural to hate other countries. Tribal instincts and all. That doesn't mean everybody gets all terrorist about it, people are good, well, they only get borderline close to it, as any sports match will prove. Even those who claim to be superior to racism and cla...
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─You talk about the triple five group in a post ending with triple fours posted at 2:22 (triple two). I'd say JACKPOT!!!
[18:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─Aren't we all... It seems to me that if enough people want something, they can usually get it. Might even work in Australia!
[18:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─Has Comcast filed one yet?
[18:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:39] <exec> 08└─I live in one of the places where the power brokers live as well. You can always tell when change is in the air because, suddenly, services start showing up which means the big players are trying to keep their regulators happy. Right now, I have 1Gb FiOS @ $80/mo. Verizon and Comcast are getting ner...
[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─yeah and even with a low subscriber rate or full tax burden price it is cheap. 1 Gbps fiber for a $50k home is $14.50 a year prop tax increase? sign me the hell up! i pay 60 for a (very unreliable) lopsided plan of 15Mbps and 3Mbps up (more like 1Mbps). i'm sooo scared of municipal broadband.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─Then we'll have to conscript them. Wanna be a lawyer? You gotta serve time in congress first. You'll get your license if you do a good job. If you can't get elected, you probably wouldn't be a good lawyer anyway. Call it pre-karma. It'll sort the wheat from the chaff. The thing is, why would you vot...
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─you missed the very important words "up to". Comcast committed themselves to pocketing the money, but not actually providing any service.
[18:37:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─The USSR wasn't "communist", just as the DPRK isn't "democratic". I can't blame you though because both the USSRs and the USAs propaganda arms were repeating for half a century that the USSR was the ultimate definition of communism (each country for different reasons) - what hope did you have? Venez...
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─It's been a long national nightmare. Caused by a bad diet [nih.gov]... You made no effort to understand why people vote and reelect corrupt politicians, even though it has all been well documented in every first year (animal) psychology book. Don't blame the winners, unless you can show real evidenc...
[18:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─no.
[18:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─So the chinese will buy any other smartphone... which is made in China, by the same employees, on their next shift. I think they've thought it through just fine.
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:34] <exec> 08└─Other countries will just happen to have to verify whether that US warrant is printed in the right font and on A4 paper while ... oops ... the Chinese citizen already departed. What a stroke of bad luck ! When the US president is busy insulting or picking fights with most of the World, the Chinese a...
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─China was winning because Capitalism doesn't care about slave labor or unpleasant regimes. The Chinese could build stuff, and build stuff cheap. Using the Chinese also meant access to the giant Chinese market. All that meant Profits. Profit is king. US executives won the economic war for China. Chin...
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:37] <exec> 08└─None of the factories in China (unless some are currently foreign owned after the changes to corporate ownership they implemented or discussed recently came to pass) were more than 49 percent foreign owned, meaning they wouldn't be taking anything a foreigner actually properly owned, and with 51 per...
[18:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:40] <exec> 08└─and forced buying of bs products like insurance to the point where now various industries are dominated by these leaches.
[18:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:42] <exec> 08└─"Hey, what makes you think you should be trying to get weapons to counter our constant threats?" "bad behavior" is pretty cute, coming from Americans talking about Iran.
[18:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:44] <exec> 08└─The truth of the matter is that there are a large number of people who are living in incredibly gifted lands but they are being slowly decimated because they are not industrious. I am talking about colonialism, of course.
[18:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─The alternative is not capitalism. The alternatives are anarchism and socialism. If Marx and Proudhon can be reconciled, it might be a system worth pursuing. However, it will most certainly not be capitalism. Capitalist property relations are completely unnatural. Socialist and mutualist property re...
[18:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─But musl libc still has the hooks if you run an older kernel, and there are still utilities for it, as well as proper inter-network routing capabilities if you are not on network id 3 (the default). I've been gaining interest in adding netfilter support for ipx and getting ipx routing available for...
[18:40:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:23] <exec> 08└─The MSM isn't "lefty" -- lefties are get censored as hard as anyone -- the MSM is purely pro-oligarchy (whether that be the DNC scented variety or the GOP scented variety).
[18:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:29] <exec> 08└─If we change it to "Idiot of the Year" we'll give you a call.
[18:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't Alex Jones and Fox News MSM? I mean they're both broadcast nationwide or worldwide and have revenues in excess of hundreds of milliions of dollars a year. Maybe it is just me, but that sure sounds like mainstream to me, even if it is a majority or supermajority of the public. Personally though...
[18:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:34] <exec> 08└─If I read DeathMonkey incorrectly, he probably means the vendetta those who control the DNC have for a very important journalist who is currently in grave danger: Julian Assange. Yeah, 'cause the DNC is running the Justice Department right now. Oh no, that's the Trump administration.
[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein [wikipedia.org] https://www.miamiherald.com [miamiherald.com] https://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com] If you wanted the swamp drained, he...
[18:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:03] <exec> 08└─> the Universe is 96% dark energy matter liquid that is non-falsifiable and must be there, because, you know, that's the only way the equations will fit the observations. I will pay for the SwedishAir tickets when you tell us your "better model".
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[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:59] <exec> 08└─This is how we lost the space shuttles also. They knew the o-rings and tiles were shit. That's just the way social power structures work. Whaddya gonna do, eh?
[19:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:01] <exec> 08└─System indiscriminately starts going "kill all humans". See attached logs. --- Confirmed, but higher ups at corporate say this will cost too much money to fix. Marking as WONTFIX.
[19:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:03] <exec> 08└─What you have to do is regulate the industry. It's pretty simple, the safety of society is the purview of government. So:       Government, stop shirking your duty       Industry, stop whining about Government As long as everyone follows the rules it will still be a level playing field (and an...
[19:33:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 1282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone is free to use any other search engine. Also anyone can build their own search engine. A similar thing happened when Wikipedia was affected by the fact that reality has a liberal bias. The result was Conservapedia. [conservapedia.com] Nothing is stopping anyone from building a search engine t...
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Gangs of liberals roam Wikipedia, because that's what you do when you're unemployed and otherwise worthless to society. Cities have liberal politics, because they have liberal populations (one man one vote), because layabouts clamoring for handouts must follow the money like groupies follow the rock...
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─Gangs of liberals roam Wikipedia, because that's what you do when you're unemployed and otherwise worthless to society.
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─Ditto, but virtual violence. Anything physical would be device destruction, but not in a way that an IT person could get hurt. All the tech people of the world could unite and fucking burn down the whole goddamn system [youtube.com].
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─Goodness Conservapedia is weird. The front page I looked at proves reality has a liberal bias, because there's a link to an article "proving" young Earth creationism. Weirdos.
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─> "we have no plans to launch search in China" Business plans change. Google had plans for a censored search engine in China. Then 5 minutes before the hearing, those plans changed. Then 5 minutes after the hearing, they changed back again. Congress cannot expect business plans to remain frozen when...
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─They could claim that they don't have it both ways. They could claim that when they find political bias they fix it. But who decides what is biased? FoxNews?
[19:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:04] <exec> 08└─Translation? That doesn't seem like a translation. If the search engine is returning true results that you don't happen to like, it is not bias.
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─Actually it was a year and a half. Many countries participated in this effort to determine the exact shape of the earth, but the US and Soviets were leading contributors. I speculate that this study was agreed upon by Communist Block and Western scientists specifically for the purpose of preventing...
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─Definitely, but epi;f take a LOT of trips and a LOT of expense, just so everyone involved can argue over where the reassembled ISS gets to be exhibited since various modules are legally the responsibility of different nations. According to Wikipedia NASA estimated it would have taken more than 27 sh...
[19:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future of U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation in Doubt - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─BFR has to be proven before it can be considered, since anti-SpaceX people in NASA and/or Congress are not taking it seriously. Technically it is possible, but does it require a human on board? How much will each flight of the BFR cost? Will there be an upcharge since it would be early in the rocket...
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:12] <exec> 08└─Too late! Maybe this really is just about domination of us little people.
[19:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:14] <exec> 08└─If you voted for tRump (I'm so clever and funny) you are evil - just look at this scientific evidence that PROVES the conclusion I'd already come to!!!
[19:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:16] <exec> 08└─And here i thought you were a brain dead expat......
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─Finally, someone else noticed that curiosity (or the lack of it) is the crux of the problem. I had to get all the way down to the bottom (sorted by "Threaded-TNG") before I found your post to reply to--was about to start a new thread. Working in the aircraft industry in the late 1930s, my father and...
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 1875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─"forced technology transfers" is absolute bullshit. It's "tell me your secrets if you want my market". No gun-to-the-head ultimatum, just an offer greed short-sighted people can't seem to refuse." i hate to agree with you, but i've been saying this since i heard this whiny line from brainwashed "ame...
[19:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Life Found Kilometers Beneath the Earth's Surface - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's the green light to start nuking each other. No matter how hard the nuclear winter, oceanic sea vents and underground ecosystems guarantee we can't completely eradicate life on the planet. Let's get rid of those pesky humans, and all their cross contamination of ecosystems. Near-blan...
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─are you some kind of moooron? it doesn't look like the pres is in control of mueller's treasonous pig ass.
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent warning to others. When you complete your gene editing experiments or cloning experiments you must publish your results pseudonymously. Doing so under your real name is a danger to your reputation, career, and life. It is folly to think this isn't being researched quietly in lab...
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[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─Uber's entire "success" story has been based on bending and breaking the rules. Why would their approach to driverless be any different?
[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─I have the following defects with your solution.     1. The government is bribed not to do its duty.     2. Industry doesn't want to stop whining about government.
[20:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:26] <exec> 08└─Found logs attached to car bumper. Decided it was safest not to review. CLOSED: could not reproduce.
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:28] <exec> 08└─Uber is a 3rd tier developer. They know just enough to be dangerous. The task before them is extremely difficult, most likely beyond the limited capabilities of a company that specializes in dispatching cabs. Even the leader, who is far ahead, has not solved enough challenges to let the car drive it...
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:31] <exec> 08└─History lesson: When regulation first came to the auto industry, the "big three" in Detroit did everything in their power to resist being regulated. They fought for at least 20 years (depending on how you count). Then, after years of grudging recalls, Detroit got the message, it's cheaper to own up...
[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:33] <exec> 08└─No surprise, what you are really saying is that Stanford has better AI programmers than Carnegie-Mellon... Google raided Stanford and Uber raided C-M.
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─After the generously donation of G+, by Goole, to Apache software foundation.
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Bug Exposes Non-Public Profile Data for 52 Million Users - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─You think if you stop walking, your body shape gets better? :-)
[20:34:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─From Washington Post [washingtonpost.com]: One Democratic lawmaker had a blunt message for his Republicans complaining about Google searches. “If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don’t want negative search results, don’t do negative things,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (Ca...
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─If the search engine is returning true results that you don't happen to like, it is not bias.
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 2812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit though and you know it. What's hard to admit, is that just maybe, Google is an accurate reflection of ourselves. Republicans have done very shitty things, and completely abandoned all moral authority by continuing to endorse the Orange Anus. With White Nationalism (aka White Supremac...
[20:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─I would be interested in knowing what anti-encryption laws New Zealand has passed. I did find this [newshub.co.nz] which has the minister saying he won't be passing anything like the Aussie laws. Our border people have the powers to tell people to unlock their devices when coming into the country,...
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─Google is an accurate reflection of ourselves.
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─But who decides what is biased?
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─Conservatives allow leftists into their conservative clubs on day passes, if only for the sake of an enjoyable argument. Yet, leftists disappear conservatives who wonder too close to leftist hovels. That's why the world appears to have a leftist bias; the left purifies its territory and vandalizes t...
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─Google has been waging war against males, whites, heteros, and people of faith, not to mention conservatives, for quite a long while now.
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─Centralization of power being bad is not something I'm willing to accept as axiomatic. Sometimes, a distributed power structure makes a better decision than a centralized power structure would. Sometimes it's the other way around. For example, the EU definitely has treated Greece very badly during t...
[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─I would expect a significant diplomatic response
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind there is no contrary evidence at all. Bloomberg made some bald assertions backed by "anonymous sources", a mis-quoted expert who stated elsewhere that he was actually speaking of a hypothetical situation and a few "representative" photos "for illustration" that didn't actually show anyt...
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─It's not even 3D. And a true hologram is even more specific than "changes perspective from different angles."
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─I want to virtually fuck the elf girl, but they should make her taller and bustier.
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─even unskilled workers are showing up less leaving farms short staffed. How does it feel to prove Piketty correct?
[20:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:33] <exec> 08└─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. ... What goes for the US goes for their running dogs, the Canadians, too.
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[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─Who ruin everything with their mindbogglingly irrationally, boundless greed.
[21:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't blockchain about who can do the most proof of work and overwhelm the ledgers that are agreed upon by consensus? Or not?
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin requires proof-of-work (mining) Blockchain requires verified encrypted transactions. You shouldn't have to mine your reciept
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─No, that's not true at all in fact. There are multiple consensus models. PoW is one, but there are literally thousands of others. Blockchain is about taking the cryptographic hash of the sum of previous hashes and using it as the basis point for the next step in the chain. It's called "block chain",...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─Before going on public streets, their car should run a test course where the obstacles are replaced by members of Uber's board and executive management. If they don't believe in their technology enough to stake their lives on it, why should I allow them to stake MY life on it?
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─Just a day or two after Lyft did so. These are so far are anonymous leaks as the forms they each filed with the SEC are kinda sorta confidentially used to start the process. While most regard the stock market as perfectly calculating each stock's value because "everyone has complete information" I a...
[21:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─Feature request: bumper wipers with high pressure washers.
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─Government, stop shirking your duty Tell it to the voters. Oversight is their obligation. They are the only ones that can put the dog out when it craps on the carpet.
[21:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 2812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:06] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit though and you know it. What's hard to admit, is that just maybe, Google is an accurate reflection of ourselves. Republicans have done very shitty things, and completely abandoned all moral authority by continuing to endorse the Orange Anus. With White Nationalism (aka White Supremac...
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─It is called insanity of the minority. You know your world view is outdated and dwindling fast, please cite the occurrences of this genocidal purification and vandalism. I'm sure they will be worth the wait lawl
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Poor Conservatards! Mocked and shamed into silence by their very own stupidity and lack of reason! It would be sad, if it was not so funny!
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:17] <exec> 08└─You've posted stupid shit plenty of times before, but this post in particular seems like the veil is lifting off of your true regressive nature. When chided for making pro-trump statements you say you didn't vote for him and he is a jackass, but then you post "Trump is a populist, a loose cannon, wh...
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─(Score 6, Inciteful) It shall be made so.
[21:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─> A person who is favored by the bias is going to like the results of that bias. True, assuming there is bias. Is it true that if Google profiles you as conservative, or into knitting, or baseball, they give you results more to your liking? (I don't know, but believe it to be true.)
[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─Google actively suppresses results that cast women and minorities in a poor light.
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─Funny, the same things keep happening to me as well. Does this mean I must be a conservative?
[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─It's kinda like that scene in Indiana Jones and whatever, where the Nazi says, "Germany has declared war on the Jones Boys!", except that it is more like "SoylentNews has declared war on the Runawaty1956!" Now Runaway has a war on two fronts, both Goog and SN. Whatever you do, Runaway, do not attemp...
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─Why would trade stop with the EU once they left?
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't stop completely, but it would be substantially more expensive. Hence the "Lopping off New York City" version of the no deal scenario.
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─Trump was right,...
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─> The UK wants to leave the EU. OK. The UK electorate was asked this in a referendum, and that is the majority view. > The UK *doesn't* want to go back to whatever situation existed before Wrong. The "UK"s opinion on this is not known - no one has asked that in a referendum. Opinion polls proved wor...
[21:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─Ireland is rather far from the continent. Generally now, the Irish speak English. They ought to leave the EU. Actually, here is the right way: 1. The UK and Ireland don't exactly leave. Well, they sort of do... by splitting the EU. The EU institutions get duplicated, making a western mini-EU with ju...
[21:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:38] <exec> 08└─centralization of power, especially to unelected parasites is incredibly stupid.
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:40] <exec> 08└─The vote happened, UK should leave the EU and go back to whatever situation existed before or negotiate new treaties with everyone. Why is this taking so long? It seems like rejection of democracy. Marginally more voted for leave after a campaign in which the illegally funded leave proponents lied a...
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:42] <exec> 08└─Centralization of power being bad is not something I'm willing to accept as axiomatic. Sometimes, a distributed power structure makes a better decision than a centralized power structure would. Sometimes it's the other way around.
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─while free trade might benefit the economy as a whole, those benefits flow disproportionately (or even exclusively) to only a small fraction of the population. The fraction of the UK population that want food on their table is small? Who knew! The chief advantage of leaving will be the serious disr...
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─This. Expecting someone to prove a negative based on unsupported 'anonymous' accusations is ridiculous. Especially, when the corporations under 'media attack' have indicated that they have investigated the situation and found no corroborating evidence that there is any truth to the rumour. Sadly thi...
[21:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─you can speak to Ellie the elf (no, really, that's her name)
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─Nope, not this: "By your own admission, you put loyalty to your tribe before reality, on purpose." Loyalty to tribe would be the social risk issue. I'm not doing this for social reasons. My motivation is that I don't want more government control. I don't want communism. I don't want 1-world-governme...
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:42] <exec> 08└─And now you know . . . the rest of the story. This is Paul Harvey . . . Good Day!
[21:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:44] <exec> 08└─Humans are descended from apes not monkeys, but im not surprised you still go looking for monkey sex. I wont judge your predilextion for bestiality, but around your area id keep that on the DL.
[21:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly how it worked in the USA. The capitalists of the post-WWII era (in their suits and black rimmed glasses) had to struggle against the huge tax burden involved in supporting a socialist-inspired welfare state, and only the fittest survived keeping the economy healthy. Even the television...
[21:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:46] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is voluntary interaction. If you want socialism, you must built it atop capitalism; you must constrain it to voluntary interaction. Otherwise, it will devolve into dysfunctional bread lines and "re-education" gulags.
[21:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:47] <exec> 08└─Contrapositively:     slavery => (individual <= collective)
[21:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:49] <exec> 08└─As fake as the "trials" are in the US. We seem to be staging a lot of them. They all appear to have a certain "give me six lines" theme to them.
[21:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:51] <exec> 08└─I flew AC not long ago, and being that it is a Canadian national company, they have to make all the announcements in English and French. The pilot completely butchered the French announcements with a broad Canadian English accent and apparently trying to read from a provided French script. I thought...
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Romero Gifts 'Doom' 18 New Levels For Its 25th Birthday - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, I would love to do that. I still actually have the Windows 98 CD I originally installed to run Doom on. I found it while moving house, memories... No longer have the right vintage machine to run it on. Had a soundblaster 16 myself back then, with an interesting graphics setup. It was a standard...
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:41] <exec> 08└─Back when the media had integrity, maybe. Nowadays the Nazis would love them.
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─Red Tide? Hurricane? Too many old people?
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[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally the article fails to even understand what a blockchain is, nor how they operate.
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Wow, well put.
[22:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Which is exactly why the government keeps the voters in the dark about everything it can. Whistleblowers are the only way we get any information.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─One of those Uber death machines was driving on a sidewalk? I walk along the pothole-strewn road they drive on most often (River Ave), there is a paved trail that runs parallel that could easily be mistaken for a road if a car managed to get on to it. Now that it is dark when I leave work, it is har...
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Wipers and washers priced. Cost deemed too high. Engineering counters with offer of thick red/brown metal bumpers Marketing proposes Insta-Swap Bumpers! Now Availble In Many Colors To Suit Daily Moods!! Legal is still pricing whether injuries are cheaper than kills, and whether attempting to reduce...
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─Suddenly our conservatives don't understand how page-rank works. I wonder if they feel any shame pretending to be ignorant to fit in with their conservative buddies.
[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─I don't accept that, but, if it is true, then America should be embarrassed. Under the guise of eliminating an ages-old racist culture, you are instituting another racist culture. Under the guise of battling fascism, you are trying to build a Soviet style authoritarian state. If that is a reflection...
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─What if you search for information about Nazis, and forever thereafter get results preferentially from neo-Nazi sites, especially every time you do a search in public?
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Over here [reason.com]. Both Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have stated in recent months that more regulation is needed. So has Satya Nadella [barrons.com], the CEO of Microsoft.
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─Of course America should be embarrassed. Russia was able to manipulate our elections by manipulating us through power we willingly gave as sheep to some tech giants.
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─That is about protecting a class of people.
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─I think my solution is better: we give Ireland (all of it, even the bits we don't own) to America, and they give us Hawaii in return. That way, the Irish all get guns and can go on shooting each other, and we get the best music and dancing girls.
[22:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─It is indeed, quite likely that the majority would like to return to the days when the sun never set on the British empire. This is unlikely to be feasible. In particular, I doubt you would get many of today's women to wear Victorian fashions, and the working class would not accept the employment te...
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─Bozo the clown would obviously be the Brexiteer's choice. Unfortunately the percentage of voters wanting someone sane are unlikely to have a candidate they can support.
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─While I certainly hope that it's not shut down, there's another side to this. Do you think it's acceptable for a single company to blackmail an entire nation purely for its own supply chain convenience? There are hundreds of thousands of companies in the UK. The vast majority do not trade internatio...
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the referendum gave a nice broad requirement: "leave the EU" but you can't implement a broad requirement (just think how many ways you could implement the requirement "I want a program to paint pictures" - few of them are adobe photoshop) so they need to refine it into an actual specification...
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think GP's post tells the whole story but there is some truth to it. However, you missed the point. Of course, the suits are always in a position to make the peons feel the pain when the suits don't get their way. That is how their sales pitch always works. "Do what we want, and you may get...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with "no deal" is that it will really really screw up the UK's economy. Trade with the EU amounts to approximately 10% of the UK's GDP.
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxrick [5034] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─I don't understand anyones logic describing the EU as 'The third reich' or calling it undemocratic. The EU is literally in every sense of the word more democratic than the majority of the positions of power in the UK. The people in charge and power are voted for multiple times by representatives of...
[22:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─Ireland left the UK in 1922. Did you mean the EU?
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your arguments about the EU being democratic. Go and research its organisation and power structures. There's a huge democratic deficit. It's the root cause for much of our dissatisfaction. "Does the UK really want to look more like the US?" Yes. Because we already *are* much more lik...
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─All the EU regulations the Brexit wankers whine on about are regulations the UK helped create, as a member of the EU.
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:49] <exec> 08└─I don’t build mobos, but I’d think sneaking in a chip that the board wasn’t engineered to have would cause other problems with the board that would pop up quickly on quality measurement graphs. The whole thing smelled of fake news.
[22:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:22] <exec> 08└─Generally, the comment will have both Interesting and Insightful mods giving the +5 score, and the Disagree mod (+0) because the moderator holds the comment in contention. Without the Disagree mod, the comment would likely get lost because of the constant +1/-1 voting between Interesting/Insightful/...
[22:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:23] <exec> 08└─This is Paul Harvey . . . Good Day!
[22:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:29] <exec> 08└─"Hey, what makes you think you should be trying to get weapons to counter our constant threats?"
[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─You still haven't said who those people are. I can read a whole lot better than I can mindread.
[22:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─Other countries will just happen to have to verify whether that US warrant is printed in the right font and on A4 paper while ... oops ... the Chinese citizen already departed. What a stroke of bad luck !
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:35] <exec> 08└─Careful with that step back, at the rate you'll be asked to volunteer and without that wall, you may end up in Mexico (grin)
[22:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:38] <exec> 08└─The subtle and complex art of diplomacy includes knowing when to make exceptions, look away, or make mistakes to get to a result that satisfies some without angering others. And then keep a list, for when it's your turn to need a mistake.
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[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─I think you're missing the sarcasm in: Isn't blockchain about who can do the most proof of work and overwhelm the ledgers that are agreed upon by consensus?
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─Loosely equating blockchain and bitcoin is kind of like loosely equating Republicans with blind fundamentalist racist idiot bigots. Of course that's not true of all Republicans, just the entertaining ones.
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blockchain: What's Not To Like?  - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─Who ruin everything with their mindbogglingly, irrationally boundless greed. That's what's not to like.
[23:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─Uber's entire "success" story has been based on bending and breaking the rules. Why would their approach to driverless be any different?
[23:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─Before going on public streets, their car should run a test course where the obstacles are replaced by members of Uber's board and executive management. If they don't believe in their technology enough to stake their lives on it, why should I allow them to stake MY life on it?
[23:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:40] <exec> 08└─Or alternately, remove the corporate veil of immunity. Throw executives in prison. Claw back bonuses and salary. Penalize stock-holders for the crimes of their company. Basically, give the people with power some incentive to be responsible, instead of having incentive structures designed to profit t...
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─New option at point of sale: discount bumperswap (tm). Free, if you return the bumper with body parts attached. (Note: not all colours will be available at all dealerships, please phone ahead)
[23:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Allegedly Ignored Safety Warnings Before Self-Driving Fatality - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─Differences between self-driving Uber and normal Uber: Self driving cars are doing the speed limit, using indicators, and have functioning brake lights. Normal Uber slightly less likely to be on sidewalk.
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:05] <exec> 08└─And when every possible class of people except for white men has these "protections", these protections are now the norm and there is now institutionalized racism and sexism against the one group that is denied these protections.
[23:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─M'eh, cant say seeing the laws before would help anything when the governments interpretation of the law is secret.
[23:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─Google actively suppresses results that cast women [...] in a poor light.
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─Last I knew, search engines were supposed to return relevant results. Has the mission now changed to returning only truthful results?
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Do you get really, really angry at the thought that a trans-gender person might be able to choose where they go to the toilet, even though you have never actually met a trans-gender person? If you do, you might be a conservative.
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies before the U.S. Congress - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─Certainly not "let's green-screen women as search and rescue team members and get Anderson Cooper to pretend to interview them" CNN.
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the rest, the EU27, will now shift the EU as a whole slightly towards more Portugal-like politics, now that that ball-and-chain the UK removed itself voluntarily.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─It was always about political union. The economic union was meant as as a means to that end.
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─Until ratified by the EU parliament, no council or commission shit become normative. And then, each country in EU need to create their own laws, which in no small number of times many country parliaments refused.
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─1. Most people work for large companies, all of which trade internationally to some degree. 2. You have to show that the overall balance of EU membership is bad even for small companies that do not trade internationally. I think that the impact of EU membership on small companies is either positive...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─By... (you ready?)... UK, which thought they'll be able to govern the entire Europe instead of a couple of islands.
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─What can I say, that's the funniest comment I have read in a long time. The Republic of Ireland using the UK Pound: that's some comedy gold. You clearly have no sense of the history of the Republic of Ireland and the sensitivities of the Irish people.
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit Status Once Again in Limbo - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not buying it. But then again, you didn't really want that economy anyway.
[23:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Supermicro Says That an Audit Found No Evidence to Support Claims of Chinese Backdoors in Products - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind there is no contrary evidence at all. Bloomberg made some bald assertions backed by "anonymous sources", a mis-quoted expert who stated elsewhere that he was actually speaking of a hypothetical situation and a few "representative" photos "for illustration" that didn't actually show anyt...
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─Parking at the mall is a chore. Walking around the giant mall is a chore, especially when you have people hawking shit you don't care about. Waiting in line at the stores is a chore. On top of all of that, everything costs more at the mall. Good luck with that business model.
[23:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:08] <exec> 08└─More Good You get to look at products in person, which for some things makes a big difference. No need to rely entirely on deceptive photos and vague reviews.
[23:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota's Mall of America Introduces a Virtual Elf "Hologram" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─You are not the target audience. Stupid cunts with hubby's credit card are the intended user.
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not anti- the idea, I'm just anti- the idea that it's being sold as "paying for itself" - it's not, it's being paid for by customers who have an economic want that needs satisfying. Like you, I'm also quite pro- the middle finger to the big guys who pretty much expect to get such contracts...
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts Town Votes Against Comcast Cable Internet Offer, Will Build Municipal Fiber Instead - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember an Arthur C. Clarke(?) novel where the presidency was assigned by lottery, with no option to abdicate, on the assumption that anyone who wanted the job was clearly unqualified.
[23:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─>> "Hey, what makes you think you should be trying to get weapons to counter our constant threats?" > It's certainly not the many years of economic sanctions. Imagine swapping places, with Iran teaming up with the neighbors to punish the US for refusing to drop its silly non-religious constitution a...
[23:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:13] <exec> 08└─The subtle and complex art of diplomacy includes knowing when to make exceptions, look away, or make mistakes to get to a result that satisfies some without angering others. And then keep a list, for when it's your turn to need a mistake.
[23:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─"knowing when to"
[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Imagine swapping places, with Iran teaming up with the neighbors to punish the US for refusing to drop its silly non-religious constitution and stop its support for Israel, supporting groups in Canada trying to overthrow the US government, and having a history of having successfully burnt the white...
[23:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:20] <exec> 08└─"knowing when to"
[23:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:22] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is NOT voluntary interaction, that is a pipe dream subverted by corporate control. Socialism != Communism Capitalism and Socialism is the correct way forward, it preserves freedom while providing for society where needed. We do need to start enforcing anti-monopoly legislation, but this m...
[23:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:24] <exec> 08└─Karma is a bitch :D at least that is what those LoL incels keep saying
[23:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─And there I thought we were just having a civil disagreement...
[23:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─Haha, a common misconception. Canadians are required one alternate language to their native French or English, the 2nd language requirement is Moose [wikipedia.org]. I think we've got it much easier here in the US, only one extra language requirement in most states and the only PERL interaction is w...
[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:31] <exec> 08└─You are talking to khallow. He/she/it pretends to be civil as a strategy for "winning", but there is very little critical thinking going on there. The goal is to keep poking away at your statements till you get upset, then they can claim the moral and logical high ground. As you can see here they ma...
[23:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:33] <exec> 08└─One thing is clear, not you!
[23:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Arrests Former Canadian Diplomat; Chinese Companies Ban iPhones, Require Huawei Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:35] <exec> 08└─And there I thought we were just having a civil disagreement...
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