#comments | Logs for 2020-08-27

« return
[00:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:21:26] <exec> last cid = 1042439
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─Didn't congress cover this in their Covid package? Oh, that's right, they never got to the second one before this one expired
[00:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─Pay thousands of dollars for something that stops working as soon as you buy it. They could have paid a hundred dollars for a used Android phone or console that could run it just as well, or better.
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─eBay users have apparently paid thousands of dollars for iPhones that had a playable, pre-installed copy of the game.
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─If they had bought a console, they would probably never have had to worry about the game somehow becoming unplayable. With an Android phone, it's possible, but unlikely, because Google aren't Nazis about their Play Store the way Apple is with their store. But even if Google did get into a fight with...
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─How is Android locked down? If you don't like Google's play store, you can load your own .apk files directly on the phone with a USB cable, if for some reason you can't get it on Google's play store (which is hard, because they'll take just about anything).
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─Only retarded kids think that getting a plastic medal someone's dad is handing out out of a black trash bag is worth a damn. You and your excellent brain also managed to see through the ruse - well done.
[00:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:06] <exec> 08└─> What constitutes "work" in your statement? Let's see um... Mostly it goes like this: 9am : Clock in 9.15-45: Take a huge shit on the clock 10am : Read the news 12pm : Lunch 1pm : Nap at desk 2pm : Start wrapping up for the day 3-5pm : Mostly a blur, drugs involved, possibly hookers 5pm :...
[00:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:42] <exec> 08└─It's about money, and the fact that Europe has been getting a free ride from American taxpayers for 50+ years such that they can afford fancy social benefits while Americans go without.
[00:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:44] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say Obama was much worse, only just on par in the evils department.
[00:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:46] <exec> 08└─He should just stop smoking it 'til after the election. Problem solved. Have some self discipline, dammit!
[00:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I put them outside and have them worked by 3rd world laborers.
[00:27:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─Let's not make light of a serious issue.
[00:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:09] <exec> 08└─If only it were so simple. Pages these days often use graphics to create the menus you use to navigate. If you see fifty placeholders on a site with no ALT text, how do you know which link you want? Hover over it with your cur- oh, wait.
[00:33:59] <exec> count new = 11
[00:33:59] <exec> count top = 2
[00:33:59] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:21:26] <exec> last cid = 1042460
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─f they had bought a console, they would probably never have had to worry about the game somehow becoming unplayable.
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─There are also competing platforms available on Android such as the Amazon Appstore: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.fool.com
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─If we want to seriously "regulate" this market, I like to refer to Compaq as the hero in the story of reverse engineering. Somewhere the market has to be pried open as it was for the PC.
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─Have you ever written an Android app? If you want access to any of the hardware (like the screen, the speaker, the GPS, the storage, etc.) each has its own little permissions scheme which happens to change APIs with most every new flavor. The Android treadmill isn't cranked up quite as fast as the M...
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─In the case of phones, the hardware is built very specifically to serve the OS - nearly the opposite of early PCs.
[01:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:32] <exec> 08└─Are we back to making low effort posts?
[01:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─A clown with orange facepaint and oversize pantomime suit that performs in front of semi-literates holding a book of fairy tales? This one: https://www.washingtontimes.com [washingtontimes.com] Or this one: https://www.vanityfair.com
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─Dunno?
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:05] <exec> 08└─The only way you could boost the proton's EM field by a factor of 7500 is if it got assistance from dark matter. Please send me my Nobel Prize.
[01:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:06] <exec> 08└─We just sent you a Noble Prize made out of dark matter.
[01:28:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:55] <exec> 08└─The difference is that MBAs see all problems as people problems - their solutions typically focus on getting someone to change their mind. That's how they get, as you say, people behaving in thw same general way. But it isn't possible to change the mind of a technical problem, namely how can you qui...
[01:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know. I even give you an informative mod for that. I am trying out "smart cookie", which is a fork of "lightning" browser. It seems success causes companies to sow the seeds of their own annihilation by providing funds to support lavish lifestyles of the management classes devoted to marginal...
[01:33:36] <exec> count new = 11
[01:33:36] <exec> count top = 1
[01:33:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:21:26] <exec> last cid = 1042474
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─Look up Ebworthen. He was milked of his sperm by thee greeys in 1979 and we are all decended from him.
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─Offtopic? Fortnite is being evicted from my iPhone! Where's the humanity?
[02:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:03] <exec> 08└─Apparently you can just click on a link or scan a QR code [epicgames.com] as well.
[02:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:13] <exec> 08└─The drawings I've seen show these metalenses as a field of little prisms (or more likely antennas--at the lengths of light wavelengths). There wasn't any obvious reason why the active elements need to be stuck to a solid substrate. Perhaps they can be attached together by something more like a scree...
[02:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:41] <exec> 08└─This all scares the shit out of me. For so, so many reasons, not least of which is being "scary-smart woman with scary-long hair," I know my chances of surviving the HR gauntlet are somewhere around "snowball in the Malebolge." As time marches on I am seriously considering something like finding an...
[02:25:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:50] <exec> 08└─That just goes to show how much trust you can put in anything politicians says. They don't have any real conviction, just the conviction-du-jour that furthers their agenda - which is, and only is, grab more power and more money. I'm surprised anybody bothers to vote for any of those liars...
[02:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes it does. Notice that one of us is going full /b/tard meme machine on a girl some 40% his age, front-loading said memetardedness with all kinds of strawmen, non-sequiturs, and ad homs...and the other of us is me.
[02:31:57] <exec> count new = 6
[02:31:57] <exec> count top = 1
[02:31:57] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042498
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─Currently TFT(itle) reads: Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC)
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─Oh! Never mind... I thought you said "All Stars"
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─Jimmy, I'm not going to be able to play poker with you and the boys this weekend. I have to take the dog out for a walk right now, but the package is in the cloud. Enjoy. Please let me know if you need help on further matters. Your pal, Gabe PS: Lucky numbers are 14, 9, 31, 24, and wildcard 8.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─Do we know who the father is? Do we even know what the gestation period is?
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─Fools and their money are their own problem, but the world should not be encouraging this kind of thing.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─You can buy these... AeroTech RMS/Hybrid Reloadable Motor System is the world's first commercially available reloadable hybrid propellant rocket motor and has successfully completed the Tripoli Rocketry Association's beta-testing and motor certification programs. A hybrid propellant rocket motor emp...
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Hybrid rocket motors have a long history in amateur rocketry. What I believe is unique is their use of Nytrox as a safer, more stable oxidizer. But TFA is mostly a fluff piece designed to keep U of I in the press...
[03:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:00] <exec> 08└─Add to the fact that 20 years of panel waste is about the same as one year of waste from food packaging [europa.eu]. Solar is a good way to generate energy and I don't get why the Common Man™ keeps demanding more expensive alternatives [pri.org] that have the added downside of fucking up the envir...
[03:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:50] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this explained in the first post?
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─I was once on the inside track of one of those. The company put an ad in the paper (this was back in the 1990s), and interviewed several applicants, but it was all for show, merely to satisfy EEOC requirements, because they had already decided to hire me.
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─That reminded me of this trailer for a game... (7 Billion Humans) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I can't mention what person I am reminded of in the last segement. =)
[03:31:49] <exec> count new = 11
[03:31:49] <exec> count top = 0
[03:31:49] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:21:26] <exec> last cid = 1042526
[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─That was a copy/paste from the article at Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]. I just checked (they try two different titles and then run with the one that got the most hits) and the title reads "The big Delta IV Heavy rocket will try to loft a classified mission tonight". So, yes "Loft". That said, ther...
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:59] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy#Upcoming_launches [wikipedia.org]
[04:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─f they had bought a console, they would probably never have had to worry about the game somehow becoming unplayable.
[04:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:29] <exec> 08└─Actually this one was made by a Jew, dissident, Nobel laureate, activist for disarmament, peace and human rights https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Yes, he did make it himself for as much as it is possible to be made by one person. He did design and built the "flavor" as w...
[04:31:43] <exec> count new = 3
[04:31:43] <exec> count top = 1
[04:31:43] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042540
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─Employers might be wary of hiring someone who might have their car repossessed any minute, or regularly has to take time off to run to the social security office, or might be sick off work more often because they can't afford medical care...
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─I am a faculty member at the University of Nebraska. I regularly get emails from the university's founding asking me to contribute to the "Husker Food Pantry" to help students who have to choose between college expenses and food. At the same time, we have multiple levels of administration with $200+...
[05:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─Employers are part of the problem. There are far too many jobs that "require" college degrees when those degrees aren't actually necessary to do the job.
[05:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:48] <exec> 08└─Debt induces obedience. In Oligarchism, it is the very purpose of loans to financially strain individuals and provide stress to them. But the mass obedience is the final goal. You cannot rebel when you are badly vulnerable to loss of income and property. More to it, a debt itself is only possible if...
[05:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:58] <exec> 08└─"loft" can be a verb: https://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com] My take: journalists just being, well, journalists. A little drama spice on top.
[05:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:01] <exec> 08└─Will "try" to loft? Well, that's a solid endorsement. I'll try to have confidence in their success.
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─to hit or throw something aloft, especially a ball.
[05:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone with a 3d printer can help explain to me why this wouldn't work. What if the first layer printed is a dotted line instead of a solid surface. Then the next layer is printed over top, raising the print head up and down to follow the bumps and pits of the previous layer. Etc, etc, etc un...
[05:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:50] <exec> 08└─I thought invading the other side's backs was more a Greek thing.
[05:31:43] <exec> count new = 9
[05:31:43] <exec> count top = 0
[05:31:43] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042556
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─It's true. However, back when I was a teenager and I was wondering whether to pursue long university, my dad told me this: go to university for as long as you can. You won't learn anything of real value there. But it'll tell your first employer that you're patient and persistent enough to go through...
[06:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:06] <exec> 08└─none were displaced to bring this story to you.
[06:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─In general gaming console companies will try to avoid doing that sort of thing (especially intentionally), because it's very bad for business. The entire purpose of your platform is to play games, and if your customers suddenly find they can't play a game they paid good money for, that will not end...
[06:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:38] <exec> 08└─...till Fortnite don't run.
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:17] <exec> 08└─"Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy." "Two Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she wa...
[06:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:18] <exec> 08└─Three "quotations" , no reference.
[06:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:20] <exec> 08└─I've heard this lie before from so many people. The closest this cool bro story approaches the truth is that you have a brother-in-law you can't stand, and you saw this person using weed once or twice. Let me try my version (which is still a lie...): I agree with you on the first point. I philosophi...
[06:31:45] <exec> count new = 7
[06:31:46] <exec> count top = 0
[06:31:46] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042570
[07:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:41] <exec> 08└─Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets
[07:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:53] <exec> 08└─s/University/State/g s/student loans/taxes/g s/highly paid administrators/high paid politicians/g There. FTFY.
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─You cannot rebel when you are badly vulnerable to loss of income and property.
[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Privately owned money sinks like exorbitant university fees and expensive real estate don't benefit the public. They only shift the wealth upwards and away from the people. Whereas taxes are primarily a redistribution of wealth (with some inefficiency as you've noted with paying politicia...
[07:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (2020-08-27 @ 0212 EDT/0612 UTC) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:10] <exec> 08└─The youtube link at the bottom of the article leads to a private video.
[07:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:03] <exec> 08└─It's possible. Look up "non-planar" printing. There are patches available for Slic3r, probably others. Basically, you specify how steep of an angle your hotend can move along Z without risking a collision between it (and things attached to/around it) and the print.
[07:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:21] <exec> 08└─Gray, Michael (1998). Drug Crazy: How We Got Into this Mess and How We Can Get Out. Random House. ISBN 0-679-43533-6. Inciardi, James A. (1986). The War on Drugs: Heroin, cocaine, crime, and public policy. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Company. p. 231. ISBN 0-87484-743-5. David E. Newton (2017). Ma...
[07:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The rehabilitation of W in the minds of so many Democrats is one of the most mind boggling facets of our current politics. I guess political loathing is governed by an inverse cube law over time or something. How many multi-decade, multi $trillion, 100s of thousands of lives lost wars has Tr...
[07:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:24] <exec> 08└─I guess the gist of this submission is that hoplophiles can't imagine living without shooting things, so a president's gun stance can be a dealbreaker for them: single issue voters. Grow up, cowboys and indians LARPERs.
[07:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:48] <exec> 08└─It was relatively clean as over 97% of the energy released came from nuclear fusion, with a comparatively insignificant amount of energy coming from the fission primaries that triggered the fusion. That also meant very little fallout for a bomb of such size. The original bomb design called for a nat...
[07:31:50] <exec> count new = 10
[07:31:50] <exec> count top = 0
[07:31:51] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042587
[08:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─Or, may not. Kind of a toss-up, really.
[08:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of detail. Maybe you could write that up and send it back to the school, as well as to other alumni currently struggling to get by :-|
[08:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:57] <exec> 08└─Those Aerotech hybrids were developed about 22 years ago, and advanced rocketeers (certified to do this stuff) were experimenting with N2O/sugar, N2O/Ammonium Perchlorate, and other custom formulations. I question the validity of "Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine" when this tech w...
[08:31:57] <exec> count new = 3
[08:31:57] <exec> count top = 0
[08:31:57] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042591
[09:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─True, but this has nothing to do with the violence advocating Runaway journal now at the top of the queue.
[09:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─Take your comment to the place it belongs - Runaway's journal. This is a discussion about neodymium and a possible replacement.
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─In other news, scientists envision the return of thin film magnetic bubble memory.
[09:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:06] <exec> 08└─You cannot rebel when you are badly vulnerable to loss of income and property.
[09:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:08] <exec> 08└─One of my biggest problems is finding a way to accept that society is perfectly fine with throwing away 6.4% of someone's life for bullcrap. (5 years / 78 year life expectancy) What's worse is that I threw away 6.4% of my life. Apparently, that isn't enough. Master's degrees are becoming more the no...
[09:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:10] <exec> 08└─...don't go into debt for higher education? If you can't afford to pay cash each semester for tuition and books, you can always go someplace cheaper (community college is a good start) or take less credits. I worked my way through college, paid cash every semester and graduated w/ no debt. Why is th...
[09:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:56] <exec> 08└─Here. [apple.com]
[09:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 1883 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:46] <exec> 08└─reprocessing spent nuclear fuel has been around for ages. They have been doing it in Europe for decades. The USA has a nuclear "waste" problem because of political resistance to reprocessing the fuel. Both proliferation issues and NIMBY have blocked efforts to start recycling the fuel. In fact only...
[09:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:55] <exec> 08└─The hazardous component claimed to be in solar panels is the lead in the solder...
[09:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but wasn't that clown supposed to hang out in the sewers or something?
[09:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:30] <exec> 08└─For me uninstalling and using Chrome appears to have fixed stuff. With the new Firefox my phone got extremely sluggish sometimes (I guess the new Firefox uses a lot more RAM and doesn't free it up). Before that I was using Firefox Android for years. Now I guess it's more like FireFucked than Firefox...
[09:31:35] <exec> count new = 10
[09:31:35] <exec> count top = 1
[09:31:35] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042603
[10:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:20] <exec> 08└─Employers are getting pickier. They can reject you for your credit score, for smoking, for the college you went to, your GPA, whatever they want, and they do. Community college is becoming less viable because employers are turning their noses up at it.
[10:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03purdy [1863] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:08] <exec> 08└─> But even if Google did get into a fight with the game developer like this If? You can't possibly be unaware that Google has also kicked Fortnite out of the Google Play store and that Epic is also suing Google. You point about sideloading is still valid, but you are trying a little to hard to paint...
[10:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:08] <exec> 08└─It may make sense to dump tons of separated PV panel waste in designated and specially prepared and marked landfills sorted by type/category. Future generations could use advanced mining and recycling tech on those "huge high yield deposits". Same goes for other stuff. Process and sort them wisely,...
[10:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:43] <exec> 08└─That involves horses.
[10:31:48] <exec> count new = 4
[10:31:48] <exec> count top = 0
[10:31:48] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042609
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.marketwatch.com/graphics/college-debt-now-and-then/ [marketwatch.com]
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:13] <exec> 08└─I threw away even more years of my life, getting a PhD. Do I regret it? Definitely not! My years at grad school were the best time in my life. Was it useful? Um, maybe, as I probably wouldn't have the job I have right now without that PhD. Do I use anything of what I learned during that time? No!
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─As opposed to having the perseverance to self-study such that you're more than capable of doing the job spending years in a classroom? Many employers are very, very short-sighted. But I guess if you want to build a house of cards, that's a good way to do it.
[11:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:39] <exec> 08└─Stars are made in Hollywood.
[11:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 1924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─We ran an investment based R&D business for many years... it was interesting to get to know the investors. Some of our more reliable money came from trust fund babies... in their late 50s/early 60s these people got a predictable "allowance" of around $400K per year from mom and dad - with this relia...
[11:26:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 4216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:19] <exec> 08└─I have come to understand that employment is highly political. HR is full of trolls who hate and fear engineers. They get a kick out of rejecting the best, while keeping their a** covered by advancing a few stock subjective reasons. They'll claim a candidate is "not a team player" or lacks social sk...
[11:27:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:09] <exec> 08└─Or he could talk loquaciously for months about the evil of drugs and Mexican rapists. Yep, I think we know where he's going with this.
[11:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:43] <exec> 08└─That's hilarious, thinking Brexit was planned.
[11:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:55] <exec> 08└─Nixon was buried as "a great statesman." Trump will (eventually) be interred as "a global peacemaker and a man of the people." Draw your own conclusions.
[11:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:40] <exec> 08└─This is the same company that awarded Mozilla $500k to just five organizations, one of whom seeks to support "struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression [archive.org], and spent a great deal of their budget on projects for censorship(calling it tolerance, but only tolerating speech o...
[11:31:36] <exec> count new = 7
[11:31:37] <exec> count top = 3
[11:31:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042624
[12:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─I bet Trump era has been disastrous for the mood of lab mice that even a stressed up researcher noticed.
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─Au Contraire - what are we going to do today, Anon?
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─Why? Wouldn't the mice love it that he grabbed the pussy?
[12:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─I bet this is just one more (of many) reasons that there is so much difficulty reproducing research results in different labs.
[12:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─From the haystack, I plucked this needle. https://www.nims.go.jp [nims.go.jp] National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, includes a lab that studies magnetism.
[12:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:30] <exec> 08└─Do I use anything of what I learned during that time? No!
[12:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:32] <exec> 08└─Simple way to solve this: start being and employer rather than a prospective employee.
[12:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:08] <exec> 08└─Well...technically, it was planned, but it certainly wasn't organized! I guess that's what happens when you have to transform whims into a plan. Plus there was all that high-priority boat-naming to do. Silly Britischers.
[12:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:09] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: The EU has all the forces they'd need to defend themselves without US help, but at the same time the only way they can afford to have fancy social benefits is with US help?
[12:31:50] <exec> count new = 9
[12:31:50] <exec> count top = 0
[12:31:51] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042639
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
[13:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─Can't you just online or night school it? Because everyone has to do it, the standards have to implode, such that the classes are not too hard. I generally go to the gym on alternate days, and when I was doing online classes on non-gym days I'd do my classes at lunch time. If you want a real blackpi...
[13:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─Is it permanent or temporary that W-2 work has gone full 1984 big brother while 1099 work is (in my experience) still mostly the wild west? I have noticed that W-2 work is moving toward a slavery or feudal model where the Lord of the Manor is very concerned with tiny details of his properties lives....
[13:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─So what is making education costs rise faster than inflation?
[13:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─Eh billions of panels shipped installed and working vs a lab demo. I seen a lot of lab demos in my EE career. Might come thru at get shipped... might not. None the less, something that's not a panel couldn't be covered by halfway decent panel regulations any more than solar calculators or solar watc...
[13:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:37] <exec> 08└─A pity you are unable to see the irony of a possible tech development as exemplified by my "meme", but I don't want to sound defensive. Because being defensive means implicitly accepting your accusation resting on your own reconstruction of my personal feelings towards some media figure. So, thank y...
[13:31:43] <exec> count new = 6
[13:31:43] <exec> count top = 0
[13:31:43] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042651
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─Don't allow the bacterial aggregate to escape earth. We can use it instead to make more concrete. Pave the World 2020!
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─Just when I thought a martyb story submission couldn't get any worse...
[14:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─You see, if the plebs can get good jobs then they might start to depose those people that already made it to the top. Can't have that, those jobs are for their kids who don't need to take on debt.
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 2400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─Around 1990: I got $200/mo from the army reserves, about $300/mo from the GI bill, about $500/mo from a part time food store job, and about $400/mo from an internship Note that during the summer I stacked cash up at work with no tuition expenses, and the Army has uncountable professional development...
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─Ineffective framing of the question, better is, "What is making inflation rise faster than wages?".
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─Only the uneducated and moronic think that. For heaven's gate, nobody is forcing people to pursue a bullshit degree like one in gender studies. Most other degrees are worth the effort to obtain even if they don't directly pertain to career the graduate winds up in. The time that one is in college is...
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─Makes the old Hebrew concept of Jubilee a bit more appealing doesn't it? Every seven years all debt is forgiven, so you can never get perpetually trapped. Of course, I assume it'd be nearly impossible to get a large loan during the last few years of a cycle, which would bring its own challenges.
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─And how do you quickly measure that? One of the main reasons why having a degree shows up on so many applications is that it's a quick screen. Even if somebody does genuinely have equivalent knowledge via a Will Hunting style personal improvement binge, it would take hours to really know if they hav...
[14:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─Reduced corporate taxes is one - used to be those upper tax brackets were vicious, climbing to 90% for the top bracket. Strong incentive to invest in growth and employee satisfaction when the alternative is pocketing only $0.10 on the dollar. Productivity continues to climb at much the same rate as...
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:11] <exec> 08└─I used to work at a different college in a different state and that doesn't do any good. The administration is either too incompetent to respond to it properly or they don't want to. Those management positions, vice presidents, deans and the like are pretty well connected. They are the people that t...
[14:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─An increase in demand, faster than the supply of university positions can be increased. Everyone in the US has to go to college now. Job positions that make no use of any degree, but the employer demands one anyway. Students with average or below-average intelligence who, in the past, would have had...
[14:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:03] <exec> 08└─Huh? You wrote: "and while OS-X lets some of the Linux peek through..." MacOS has nothing to do with Linux.
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I was unaware of this. It's not in the article summary, so you can't expect me to know this... Seriously, I don't keep up with all the news about games, since I don't use them. But I'm guessing they were kicked out for the same reason? (Trying to get payments from customers for in-game purcha...
[14:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 2244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:06] <exec> 08└─What the heck are you talking about? I don't even see the parallel you're trying to draw. Compaq was a "hero" because they reverse-engineered the IBM PC and made a compatible clone, and started a revolution in personal computing by opening the door to countless companies making PC clones, which coul...
[14:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:28] <exec> 08└─> the solutions to a wide variety of medical problems are coming faster and faster these days thanks also to the bill and melinda gates foundation. What can possibly go wrong.
[14:32:28] <exec> count new = 15
[14:32:28] <exec> count top = 0
[14:32:28] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042682
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Why were they, essentially all, white to begin with? I've driven by some wind farms, they were around even when I was a kid. Every single one was white and pretty much every picture I've seen, all of the turbines were white. Even the towers themselves. I would assume they were white, for the same re...
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─The thing which stood out to me is: In the three years that followed ... 18 bird deaths were recorded by the four control wind turbines
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Because the oil companies needed to paint renewables as bad somehow. I mean they are so loud too right? (I could hear one when I stood directly under it, but you know, it was in the middle of a corn field, and by the edge of the field, it was completely silent.)
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─I guess because the worried people were worried about the number of deaths before the 71.9-percent reduction
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─a pellet thicker than 0.5 mm would have survived between 15 and 45 years on the ISS... a colony of 1 mm of diameter could potentially survive up to 8 years in outer space conditions.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the missing connection is on the ISS vs hard vaccuum of space. Not sure why it would matter much how long it could survive on the ISS. They could have worded the article a bit better.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─That makes sense, but the article seems to equate "outside the ISS" with "the harsh space environment." From the article: The study... shows that thick aggregates can provide sufficient protection for the survival of bacteria during several years in the harsh space environment.... Dr. Yamagishi and...
[15:23:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─Debt induces obedience. In Oligarchism, it is the very purpose of loans to financially strain individuals and provide stress to them. But the mass obedience is the final goal. You cannot rebel when you are badly vulnerable to loss of income and property. More to it, a debt itself is only possible if...
[15:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─It's true. However, back when I was a teenager and I was wondering whether to pursue long university, my dad told me this: go to university for as long as you can. You won't learn anything of real value there. But it'll tell your first employer that you're patient and persistent enough to go through...
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:02] <exec> 08└─As an aside: I doubt this, but I kinda wonder if Apple is paying Google to not be as bad as them, just so Apple can continue to abuse their idiot customers for profit.
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─One might argue that the people who paid for a PS3 were their actual customers. Thus, they took away a feature that was interesting / useful to at least a subset of their customers. They also dumped backwards compatibility with PS2.
[15:31:43] <exec> count new = 9
[15:31:43] <exec> count top = 2
[15:31:43] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[16:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042706
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─Wind farms often have hundreds of turbines, so that's a lot more deaths per wind farm. If they're easily avoidable deaths, then what exactly is your problem? <no sarcasm> Bird Lives Matter </no sarcasm>
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─About once every five years a bird will fly into the window glass of my house, break its neck and die. There are about 125 million houses in the USA, so, extrapolating, there are probably 25 million birds that die every year from flying into window glass. We need to outlaw window glass in houses bef...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─A agree with your assumption, white to reduce solar heating. Since these long blades are composite (epoxy-glass or other matrix-fiber combinations), they are much more sensitive to high temps than metal blades would be. Black might be OK for high latitudes, but not for hotter/low latitude sites? Whi...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─> outlaw window glass in houses Less extreme suggestion -- put some stickers / dots on your windows. I believe these are sold for just this purpose.
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─Not all birds see the same things. Raptors, at least some of them, see the ultraviolet spectrum. Maybe to prevent the death of raptors, they should paint the blades with UV reflective paint, or use laundry brighteners on them. I don't know what will draw other bird's attention to the hazard, but I d...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─Or you could just hang some things in your window (a vertical blind can work) so they're less likely to think it's empty space they can just fly straight through.
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─Please read the article again, and note the number of raptor deaths. Raptors are far less common than something like barn swallows.
[16:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─It was my story submission, not martyb's. If you don't like the submission, dear AC, submit a better one yourself. Also, sometimes it's entertaining to discuss goofball science or projects, unless you have absolutely no sense of humor.
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─Apology extended to martyb and Phoenix666. I fell victim to the old "not noticing sarcasm/joke" delivered in a deadpan manner over the internet.
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─It may be different now, but when I got my engineering degree in the 80s, going to Community College for two years then transferring to a university saved me a lot of money. The classes at CC were smaller and the teachers more available too vs. the university "weeding out" courses taught by foreign...
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─I've thrown a lot of my life away commuting just so I could put bread on the table. That was due to circumstances I won't get into here. But, no. In my case, there is no online nor night school possibilities. Again, I won't get into the why. I'll just simply say it isn't feasible in my case. I worko...
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I'll reply anyway. Only the uneducated and moronic think that.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (Updated: Scrubbed) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─Merriam-Webster includes the definition : to propel through the air or into space
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─I wish they'd called it something else. Nytrox - Nitrous oxide-oxygen mix apparently used for rockets. Nitrox - Oxygen enriched nitrogen-oxygen breathing mix used by scuba divers to reduce fatigue and nitrogen narcosis. It's unlikely that someone would make this mistake, breathe the wrong mixture, a...
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─No - they clearly say that normal FFF printed objects are too weak for "rough-and-tough use by soldiers in the field", the next paragraph then says that the new filament + curing process solves that problem. From the article: In lab tests, such objects proved to be much stronger than those made from...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 2081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think that actually improves much though - zig-zaggy layers would be more interlocking to shear forces attempting to slide layers across each other, but that's mostly already not actually a big deal. The big weakness for FFF printed objects is tension forces that try to pull layers apart - a...
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:17] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing smacks of FUD thrown out by fossil fuel interests. It feels very much like the canard thrown out against wind turbines: "They kill all the birds!!!" Meanwhile, fossil fuels are dumping lots of CO2 into the air, lots of soot, destabilizing democracies and biomes the world over, and...
[16:31:58] <exec> count new = 17
[16:31:58] <exec> count top = 0
[16:31:58] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[17:21:27] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:21:28] <exec> last cid = 1042751
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─The first one covered 31,000 square feet. So, this one cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $7.74 million US Dollars to build. That's not cheap, but since they're not giving the produce away for free. I'm assuming they're making money on their $30 Canadian Dollars per basket. It's an interesting co...
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─They should just cover them in multi-color glitter. Reflective enough that they won't get hot, and highly visible.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─These bird deaths are small compared to what global warming is doing fauna and flora...i think it is still better than the alternative.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─All Cats Are Bastards
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─The bird deaths are practically irrelevant. The birds are not endangered, and far more birds die in various other human-caused accidents, or due to pet cats... not to mention environmental damage from less friendly energy sources. But, Republicans don't want wind power, so they "trump" up these sort...
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─What's a much bigger problem for bird than houses are the tinted glass windows of office buildings. Those are extremely reflective surfaces even on fairly dark days, which means that somewhere between 400 million and 1 billion birds slam into them every year. Your 2-story in the suburbs presents far...
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Compound May Magnetically Outperform Neodymium Magnets - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─As it turns out : https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─You cannot rebel when you are badly vulnerable to loss of income and property.
[17:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:28] <exec> 08└─I have no idea where they hang out. I just know that they smell pretty bad when they pass by in the halls.
[17:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:12] <exec> 08└─Shoot, if that's the case, he'll have to update this [xkcd.com] and it just came out!
[17:31:00] <exec> count new = 9
[17:31:01] <exec> count top = 1
[17:31:01] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042786
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─The real estate cost is roughly $50 per square foot or $550 per square meter. As a rule of thumb if they can do better than a tenth of that a year in profit before real estate cost/rent, then they will probably be fine.
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─They were probably painted white so that they wouldn't be intrusive looking in the environment. Painting them "inmate orange" would probably work better than black.
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─Because white is a nice clean color that's easy to sell. There's no reason for them to be white other than that. Heat dissipation on a something rotating that quickly shouldn't even enter the equation. As far as white cars go, that's got nothing to do with it. Ford didn't sell any white cars for qui...
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─And by "far less common", we mean still enough that 20 deaths isn't significant. So, for instance, if you look at just bald eagles, there are about 150,000 bald eagles in the US, and during a typical year about 7500 die. So even if you concentrate the deaths entirely on this one relatively uncommon...
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Also, funny how the people complaining about the noise of wind turbines don't care about the much louder noises of things like trains full of coal going by at 2 AM.
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─But bats aren't cuddly,
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Sure, they might be slightly less hot than other colors, but I doubt the difference is large enough to worry about. Plus, when the temperatures dip that becomes a negative rather than positive.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─We could argue the significance. IMO waste of life is waste of life. If a bit of paint on spinning blades is going to save half of those creatures, I would say to paint the blades. I haven't called for abolishing the blades, I am only saying that if it's possible to make them more visible to birds,...
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─But a great reason to hate office blocks and corporate culture ;)
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─Two things: First, an occasional loud noise can be a lot easier for many people to deal with than a constant quieter noise. Second, loud trains are primarily a problem for poor people crammed into poor neighborhoods in the least-appealing parts of town, while windmill noise and eyesore is a problem...
[18:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:51] <exec> 08└─Which makes the US situation that much more interesting, seeing as how millions of people are now in the process of becoming homeless. Will we see a US civil war break out in earnest this fall? If Trump/GOP doesn't chill TF down, I think there will be. And I'm afraid of the ramifications thereof, es...
[18:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─Community college is becoming less viable because employers are turning their noses up at it.
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:55] <exec> 08└─Is inflation rising faster than wages? I guess it is now due to the covid recession, but it's been rising for at least a couple of decades prior. That's not counting benefits BTW.
[18:31:20] <exec> count new = 13
[18:31:20] <exec> count top = 0
[18:31:20] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042815
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─Aside from the political maneuvering by the fossil fuel industry, there's also an issue that windmills tend to kill large birds, which mostly breed more slowly and are more likely to be endangered. For most smaller birds, an entire windfarm can't compete with a few cats. Of course even for large bid...
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─They should put blue LEDs on them. But then they would have a problem with consumertards hitting them.
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─Just send the bacteria on a slow, yellow-bus rocket and the astronauts on the faster rocket. God...it's NOT rocket science! ;)
[19:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Good Animal Welfare Helps Lab Mice Overcome Bad Things in Life - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:47] <exec> 08└─It was my story submission, not martyb's. If you don't like the submission, dear AC, submit a better one yourself. Also, sometimes it's entertaining to discuss goofball science or projects, unless you have absolutely no sense of humor.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code-Execution Bug in Pulse Secure VPN Threatens Patch Laggards Everywhere - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─what kind of stupid ass suited whore uses this dumb shit anyways?
[19:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (Updated: Scrubbed) - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:09] <exec> 08└─Ugh! Their links had always worked in the past when launch time came around. Not this time. My bad! I've updated the story. Thank you!
[19:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─eBay users have apparently paid thousands of dollars for iPhones that had a playable, pre-installed copy of the game.
[19:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:50] <exec> 08└─i didn't like johnson/weld for shit, but i still voted L. i didn't know who badnarik was until after the fact, but he seemed way more legit that J/W. i would have preferred kokesh won the nomination this time, but i understand that wouldn't have been very practical. i'm not too concerned with practi...
[19:30:33] <exec> count new = 6
[19:30:34] <exec> count top = 2
[19:30:34] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042846
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's more crypto-authoritarian mumbo for a good cause.
[20:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─Fire 3/4 of school administrators as a start. Also, we should always err on the side of more choices and more freedom, not less.
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─Will eliminating school choice for children make them healthier? Eliminating the children will save way more energy!
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 2807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─> Will eliminating school choice for children make them healthier? They kind of do already. "Catchment areas" are a thing, where those inside the catchment area are more likely to be granted a place, than those further out, see: https://admissionsday.co.uk [ad...
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─Why do they have to travel by car? Can't they walk or take their bike? Is the distance between the school and the home that long? For some that are quite far away I'm sure a bus ride might be in order. But for kids in the suburbs? Or is this more about parents being over protective and believing the...
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=36688&page=1&cid=974088#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] I think ALL buildings should have reinforced structures so that ALL roofs could support gardens. When I get too old and have to move into an apartment or ...., I hope to be able to roof-top garde...
[20:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this is only cost-effective if the first floors radiates enough excess heat for the greenhouses.
[20:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─The thing which stood out to me is: In the three years that followed ... 18 bird deaths were recorded by the four control wind turbines
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─The best answer would be to project Youtube cat videos onto them!
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─iSore is probably copyrighted.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─a.) We're building loads more turbines. b.) If painting it causes that much of a reduction, why not?
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─Hang cats in your windows.
[20:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth and Mars When Forming Aggregates - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:12] <exec> 08└─This is good news. It indicates a sufficiently thick layer of communist agitators could provide viable radiation shielding for our mars ships.
[20:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (Updated: Scrubbed) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder what it was that I saw at ~1830UTC overhead in the sky: A bright dot, then smoke and after that the dot became less bright, then vanished.
[20:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Your iPhone Copy of Fortnite is About to Become Out of Date [Updated] - 1924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─We ran an investment based R&D business for many years... it was interesting to get to know the investors. Some of our more reliable money came from trust fund babies... in their late 50s/early 60s these people got a predictable "allowance" of around $400K per year from mom and dad - with this relia...
[20:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:59] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think so. I believe it's using structures on the order of size of wavelength of visible light, making them diffractive and not refractive lenses (Fresnel lenses). This quote from the summary annoyed me a little, "We've tested its effectiveness for an angle of 110°. With wider angles of...
[20:31:18] <exec> count new = 14
[20:31:18] <exec> count top = 2
[20:31:18] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042891
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─If all children attended their local school
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my "favorite" is "Human Right." What a nebulous piece of shit statement.
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Then the rich parents couldn't show off by sending their children to "the best" schools which are inevitably farther away.
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─everyfuknwhere. Early teens I went to the "good" library (La Mesa, 4 miles), not the smaller, crappy (Fletcher Hills, 1 mile) library. Rode for about 1.5 miles to Jr High (age 12-14). Rode 3 miles to high school until I got a car (age 14-16). Even after I got a car I still rode my bike a lot to sch...
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─Clue: most kids living in $800K+ houses are NOT attending public schools. Those $20K in property taxes are going toward police protection to keep YOU from bothering them. Their kids are sent to "the best" private schools.
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─Over the years I've done a moderate amount of driving at different times of day. I live in somewhat outer suburbs of a fairly major US city. I've noticed a trend. When I was a kid, almost everyone rode the bus. More and more I've noticed parents in their cars at schools, lined up by the many dozens,...
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─I rode a 3 speed rental bike that must have weighed 30+ kilos from Hamburg up into Denmark and back. Met up with a couple of other guys on bikes doing a similar tour and we rode together for 3-4 days - one of them was on a better 3 speed and the other was on a fairly nice 10 speed. I thought they'd...
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─...and then eliminatie all the adults too and, behold, you have solved global climate change.
[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─Bats have sonar.
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:58] <exec> 08└─I don't think "Democracy" is what you are describing. In fact, I'm quite sure it is not.
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code-Execution Bug in Pulse Secure VPN Threatens Patch Laggards Everywhere - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─If you're running your desktop session as root, you've got bigger issues (not to mention clicking unknown links).
[21:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Student Debt May Hurt Chances at Full-Time Employment - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─On top of that, the time spent at the university is also supposed to count as training for your future job. So you can't just go to school for 5 years to study English literature or art history or astronomy or whatever interests you, because those degrees don't have a lot of value to employers (exce...
[21:31:15] <exec> count new = 12
[21:31:15] <exec> count top = 0
[21:31:15] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042925
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─Summary says Aquifer depletion is occurring only in 5 localities.
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Allowing people a choice is terrible. People must have all their decisions taken for them by their superiours in a government bureauocracy because... err... SCIENCE!
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─You sir have just earned yourself a ticket for a free bonus lynching by the Kool Kats Klan.
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─Don't mention how many birds and other animals die from coal mining and power plants.
[22:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─- bird - chip - wat - that's birdspeak for wat - oh ok, i notice you don't stop anymore at the boar's nest for a drink - i don't indeed - why - it's getting a bad neighbourhood. look - where - there - oh i see, a black, revolving thingy - a half blood black revolving thingy - why half blood - hear a...
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─>But bats aren't cuddly They eat mosquitoes. That's enough to cuddle them tbh
[22:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta IV Heavy Rocket Will Try to Loft a Classified Mission Tonight (Updated: Scrubbed) - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─I always like how honest the US are in their space missions. Other countries just say "um it's a weather research satellite" without any more details. But the US admit it's classified and it's for the NRO. I think they should go the obscurity route to pique less interest and curiosity.
[22:31:12] <exec> count new = 7
[22:31:13] <exec> count top = 0
[22:31:13] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:21:26] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:21:27] <exec> last cid = 1042950
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about "depletion". The water doesn't go anywhere. Very little of it evaporates into space. Contamination, that can be bad news. We're turning the aquifers into a giant piss pot
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Many aquifers are not recharging faster than they are being drained. Earth isn't losing water, but the communities that rely on aquifers will eventually be in pretty big trouble.
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─Even in places where a desalinization or treatment plant alone or a solar plant alone wouldn't justify the cost for building it, building a combined power station and desal/treatment plant would be a good idea. I've been saying this since college. My design idea is a large thermal-mass solar install...
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─Seems too like a good value add for low grade heat that otherwise has no purpose and gets dumped to the environment.
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─It's leaving the aquifers, no question. It's just that the underground Greenland water pipeline runs straight into them -- but I've probably already said too much.
[23:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─The climate-change related problem with water isn't that the water disappears, but that it replaces fresh water with salt water. And the salt water doesn't do well with crops.
[23:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Majority of Groundwater Stores Resilient to Climate Change - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's part of the 'contamination' issue. We don't lose water, we poison it. And really, we should be on desalinated water by now anyway. We really don't have to do anything more than collect what falls out the sky out over the oceans.
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─Right now in the US, there's a lot of pressure to live in good school districts. This has a mutually reinforcing effect with property values, because houses in good school districts are worth more, and that means the people who live there are wealthier, which makes the schools better. Even if you do...
[23:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Leftist miseducators are a menace to society, children go to school to learn not to be indoctrinated into political activism. Everyone wins if you homeschool, including leftists (who are terminal losers which they define as "winning").
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:35] <exec> 08└─Rob Noonan the author of this remarkable piece of crap sounds like he'd hurt less kids if he were a noble burger flipper or trash handler rather than a opinion writer with terrible opinions. So quit your day job and join the exciting world of fast food and/or sanitation engineering. For the children...
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─It's obviously not helicopter parenting, or TFA would be about reducing helicopter use, right?
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal [wikipedia.org]
[23:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:41] <exec> 08└─Found the evangical triggered by science.
[23:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Run: Cutting Car Use Will Take Much More than Educating Children and Parents - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─when your 'local' school still requires crossing one or two main roads, and there are no off-road bike lanes, it is very hard to see children riding to school, and walking on their own is not much better. there are far more cars on the roads (UK stats hiding in here [independent.co.uk] while kidnapp...
[23:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:53] <exec> 08└─Well, heat rises, and buildings generally lose heat through their roof, so the greenhouse trapping that heat in the winter should help with the building's energy usage. So while probably not the greatest technique for Phoenix, it sounds like a pretty good plan for Montreal.
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:38] <exec> 08└─Vehicles in the family have been white, dark blue, medium blue, dark red (plain paint) and light blue, turquoise, tropical yellow, light gray (metallic paint). Of all of them the one which looked worse dirty was the tropical yellow one. The white ones are indeed way better in the summer. The color o...
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:40] <exec> 08└─White is cheap. Pigments cost more, and might weigh more. And you need a considerable amount for those big parts. Why didn't they try painting eyeballs on there like they did for the cows' butts?
[23:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─Oh right! The ASPCA will love that!
[23:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:44] <exec> 08└─There was a very stupid Cardinal that kept hitting his own reflection on the in-law's front windows. He'd just keep doing it, for a goodly while. Maybe, he was defective, maybe he was protecting his territory from the other guy, beats me, but as far as I know he didn't die.
[23:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:18] <exec> 08└─I'll keep saying it. But like Annie Leonard said in The Story Of Stuff, we need regulation to close the loop by manufacturers. The currently externalised cost of disposal and recycling should be borne by the manufacturers. That will then solve the issue but also incentivise them to develop more eco...
[23:31:40] <exec> count new = 20
[23:31:40] <exec> count top = 0
[23:31:40] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********