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As a general rule, I don't post site news on weekends or holidays, but I'm making an exception due to the unique circumstances. I'm pleased to announce that as of today, our articles of incorporation have been accepted and signed off by the State of Delaware, and "SoylentNews PBC" is a licensed public benefit corporation, ready to accept business, effective today.
I feel that its fitting to post this today on July 4th, Independence Day, given the mission and unique history of SN. I'm going to do a follow-up post on Monday with more information on where we go now. Until then, have an awesome Independence Day, and a great weekend :-)
I feel that its fitting to post this today on July 4th, Independence Day, given the mission and unique history of SN. I'm going to do a follow-up post on Monday with more information on where we go now. Until then, have an awesome Independence Day, and a great weekend :-)
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Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
(Score: 1) by NickM on Friday July 04 2014, @11:32PM
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 1) by No.Limit on Saturday July 05 2014, @11:30AM
Congratulations! :D
(Score: 2) by pbnjoe on Friday July 04 2014, @11:38PM
Glad to see! Definitely a good thing to get done, to cement the fact that this site isn't just a flash in the pan :)
(Score: 1) by goodie on Friday July 04 2014, @11:41PM
Are you hiring ;) ?
(Score: 3, Funny) by zizban on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:42AM
After hiring us well paid editors he's broke
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Friday July 04 2014, @11:52PM
...to out corporate overlords. (sorry, couldn't resist)
At least, this time I _believe_ the do no evil mantra ;-)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:27AM
You haven't looked at the code running the site then. I'm pretty sure it damns my soul further with every git commit I make.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday July 04 2014, @11:54PM
Does this mean soylentnews is now a person?
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:22AM
Maybe self-even aware? We should undertake the Turing-test on the site. The test will be hard to design correctly, but I'm sure (no) intelligent life exists.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:55AM
Not a person ... SoylentNews is people.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:35AM
No. SoylentNews isn't people anymore, it's an evil corporation now. Fuck you Soylent. Fuck you very much.
(Score: 4, Funny) by lennier on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:41AM
But a corporation is a person, so...
STACK OVERFLOW
Delenda est Beta
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:59AM
No, soylentnews is now a People Butter Croissant...
soylentnews, PBC.
Now, where did i place my wife: she was here just a moment ago before those big garbage trucks came by....
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @08:50AM
+1 Morbidly hilarious!
(Score: 1) by Cognizant on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:26AM
...where is the like button.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 05 2014, @07:41AM
Here you go: [Like] [soylentnews.org] :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:01AM
OK, now that you're a corporation, what religion have you chosen to inflict on your employees?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:29AM
Personally, I'm pulling for Jedi. Perfect excuse to wear your bathrobe all day.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bugamn on Saturday July 05 2014, @02:54AM
I find your lack of Sauce disturbing.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday July 05 2014, @06:43AM
Funny you mentioned that. I was incarcerated once and they asked my religion (seriously) and I told the guard "Put down Jedi or Jedi Knight". He laughed and said "I'll put down Jedi Knight.". Then I got locked in a solitary confinement room because they said I was suicidal. True story. Watch out what you say... and I live in the USA.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 1) by Squidious on Saturday July 05 2014, @02:48PM
I think I would prefer solitary to one of those community cells filled with rapists, druggies and vomiting drunks. I've heard stories.
The terrorists have won, game, set, match. They've scared the people into electing authoritarian regimes.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday July 05 2014, @10:35PM
That's what the psychologist said when she was interviewing me to see if I could be released. I'd rather be with the devil than locked alone in that room for four days. Laughs and call me a joke, but after the third day you start losing it. I would like to thank them for rehabilitating me.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:37AM
When might we the people expect Soylent to merge with Dice? Soon? How about Monday. Come on. You corporate assholes love mergers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 05 2014, @02:09AM
Date for the Dice buyout has been set to 1 Apr 2015.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Open4D on Saturday July 05 2014, @09:29AM
Okay, but remember I was there first :P ...
2014-04-01: Dice Corp completes purchase of Soylent News [soylentnews.org]
P.S. Congratulations and thanks to you and all the other staff!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by mrkaos on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:56AM
Congratulations. I've really been enjoying SN as a more gritty alternative to /.
So will you publish your Corporate Charter here so we can read it? Thanks for SN.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NCommander on Saturday July 05 2014, @02:11AM
Its going up on Monday, I don't want to deal with file uploading and such today, which I'm taking off.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by j-stroy on Saturday July 05 2014, @02:28AM
I'm genuinely grateful to assert my capability to post a meaningless post at a place I actually want to. Thanks soylent!!
And now for the fud:
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Which is what the rest of the internet looks like to me most days.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:07AM
At least your meaningless post isn't gushing with your desire to kiss NCommander's ass like the rest of these tofu-brained soybean suckers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:29AM
...shut the fuck up.
Seriously.
This is the opposite of a sellout. By incorporating as a public benefit corporation, the Soylent officers are now legally obligated to do that which they've merely given their word that they'd do until now. And they've demonstrated a serious commitment that that they at least intend to be in this for the long haul.
There won't be any sellout to Dice; a public benefit corporation is useless to that type of commercial interest.
So, really. Stop your bitching. This is cause for celebration and congratulations.
And if you don't think it is, then what the fuck are you doing here in the first place?
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:40AM
Sell me some stock in your company so me and the shareholders can vote all your officers out, HA HA HA HA naive fucker.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday July 05 2014, @05:28AM
No, don't!
If you shut up because someone is trumpeting so , all the "public benefit" of replacing the green site with soylentnews is gone and having the SoylentNews PBC is meaningless.
Please, do feel free to troll and do feel happy that others have points to mod you as such - trolling is part of a healthy nerd news community.
Maybe in one year time your "trolling" turns out to be just "an opinion ahead of its time" (although "bacon" is already old as a topic, using it in comments seems a waste of time. Better use it in your dishes... mmmm, yummy).
Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Hyper on Saturday July 05 2014, @04:53AM
Heartfelt congratulations.
It has been a rocky road to get here. I am sure that we will grow and prosper.
(Score: 1) by pyg on Monday July 07 2014, @03:29AM
Second this.
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Saturday July 05 2014, @04:55AM
Congratulations, great job on building a community so far.
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Saturday July 05 2014, @07:18AM
Hearty congratulations ... I hope SoylentNews becomes the preeminent tech forum on these internets ...
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @09:02AM
Does that mean we can start giving you oodles of money now?
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:18PM
Well, I presume subscriptions will be coming along pretty soon. I see that when I click on someone's user page, near the bottom it now says "Subscribers can view entire comment history for all users" - which was a feature promised 9 days ago in the Back To The Drawing Board: Rethinking Subscription + Explaing Expenses [soylentnews.org] story.
The matter of donations as such is also covered there. It may be that the closest possible option is letting you "buy" something that you may or may not particularly want, and that has a high profit margin for SoylentNews PBC. In the comments there, a few people suggested ideas, like promoted messages or using patreon.com (a less time-limited version of Indiegogo) or virtual badges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 12 2014, @04:36PM
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(Score: 1) by art guerrilla on Saturday July 05 2014, @09:47AM
...and the others involved in doing the heavy-lifting of making this site/community:
hip hip
HOORAY!
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HOORAY!
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HOORAY!
(yeah, i'm old school)
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:58PM
Congrats on this, means we're all in for the long haul and never mind the ney sayers there are always a few that try and spoil the party.
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(Score: 1) by chewbacon on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:24PM
This deserves an old warcry: fuck beta!!!
(Score: 2) by tynin on Sunday July 06 2014, @01:11AM
Here here!
Fuck Beta!
(Score: 1) by donjan on Saturday July 05 2014, @10:21PM
Good milestone, keep going!
Still waiting for the name change though...
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday July 11 2014, @09:40AM
It was finished awhile ago, soylentnews.org won. I can dig out the link which has the voting results, but a search should pop it up.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday July 09 2014, @10:15AM
I know I am late to this party, but I just wanted to say congratulations for reaching this important milestone. I have been 'a bit' busy recently, so unable to contribute, but I'm very, very glad to see things progressing.
Best wishes for the future.