Wouldn't it be better just to put the crew into a medically induced coma for a year or so instead? Lower metabolisms, less calories and air required and no mental problems to deal with.
No. That would be great training for extended space travel.
This experiment is designed to examine close quartered living arrangements on a foreign planet.
What can we do to keep people from killing each other in Space?
The great thing about the plasticized pollution in the Pacific is that it tends to collect in certain areas, and much of it floats, reducing the volume of water that would need to be filtered by several orders of magnitude.
Oh yes, doing something is almost always better than doing nothing.
Well, it's great news that a suggestion box exists at all, frankly, which (at the very least) means the overseers believe our views are still freely given and received.
It's our job as holders of the ballot to right the ship; to make certain the nation's leadership is representative enough to actually read the focking suggestions.
6 years is all the time it takes to clean out the lot of executive and legislative branches.
(But what if the terrorist actually turns out to belong to one of the organizations that the US is currently at war with?)
They weren't on-duty, so that may not count.
I think there are medals for actions while serving, but not on-duty, however I'm not sure.
There are, of course, plenty of commendations they can receive, assuming Congress assents.
Yes. And, maybe, since there's been no formal declaration of war to cover the last several U.S. military incursions, combat itself may be open to interpretation.
They gave William McGonagle a MOH for a combat situation the US wasn't formally at War in.
Was there a sliding rate? IE $0.01/gallon for the first 1000 gallons/month. $0.10 for the next 1000 gallons. $0.25 for the next 1000 gallons...
Yes, there was (and is) a sliding scale to penalize the more prolific residential users, although there are seemingly boundless exceptions for commercial customers.
This is how electricity is normally billed, so most homes get one rate, commercial buildings with banks of lights burning all day get another rate, and factories using plasma cutters all day get a different rate.
I keep a home office, and years ago after moving to a new location, I cleverly arranged to have the electricity billed as a commercial account as a write off. Sounded good... I probably paid a 60-85% premium on that account for several years before I realized how much cheaper the residential rates were.
Or you could float the price of water and the problem would solve itself within a few months.
We tried that here, in a similar semidesert-like environment when our reservoirs were running dry. The wealthier citizens (most prolific users of water) still kept their landscaping and lifestyle with an extraordinary ability to absorb the budgetary increase and/or drill private wells to rob from a depleted aquifer. Like most measures of austerity, it has a greater impact on the poor and middle classes.
With regards to the algae growth they're attempting to curtail, black plastic water storage tanks and even dog water bowls are used in our area to accomplish the same goal.
IIRC, the balls also inhibit sunlight's ability to promote toxic chemical reaction with the water's surface.
If you add sunlight to a mix of bromide and chlorine, you get bromate... a suspected carcinogen.
They ought to do some brain scans of people who can't function away from people while they are at it.
If you keep that kind of talk up, and it catches on, you're going to have to account for an Imperial fuck tonne of Kardashians on the Welfare.
As a person who doesn't need a lot of social interaction, but is completely comfortablle in social situations, I'm closer to understanding the recluse than the social butterfly.
My 2 cents and YMMV: An ability to light up the room in social situations is typically good for those with ladder climbing intentions. Individuals who can accomplish that and still prefer the general absence of human interaction have only figured out how superficial social skills actually are.
Knowing what we do, and what we might safely assume government security is also privy to, why would sensitive informatiion be e-mailed at all... even using official government e-mail protocol.
The US was caught via the Snowden revelations listening to the private conversations of World leaders.
Would it not be prudent to assume other nations possess similar surveillance technology?
What would the consequences be if irrefutable proof was uncovered in the wreckage?
It seems unlikely the West's censure of this behavior would cost the Russians a kopeck, let alone the World Cup or some pricey sanctions. Europe will still purchase Russian petroleum products this winter, and the exploitation of Ukraine for its strategic location and natural resources will continue unabated.
Putin has seemingly waited past the World's collective attention span. Care and concern for Ukraine is waning in the West.
On the security front, the framework calls on manufacturers to employ end-to-end encryption, including device connections to mobile devices and applications and wireless communications to the cloud or other devices. Device makers should include features that force the retirement of default passwords after their first use and to configure multiple user roles with separate passwords for administrative and end-user access.
Some good things are in the proposal.
Beyond that, manufacturers must conspicuously disclose all personally identifiable data types and attributes collected. A health or fitness band would need to inform potential buyers that it harvests data such as their physical location and biometric data like heart rate, pulse, blood pressure and so on.
That word, harvests, is becoming a maddeningly common place term to describe the taking of many different things that are not crops. It seems like a misleadingly benign way to describe taking private information, African animals, or human organs for transplant.
You don't ever, really, completely prevent accidents.
There becomes a measurable, yet acceptable level of environmental consequence for the creation of energy using fossil fuels, hydro, solar, and even wind.
Should the bar for nuclear use be set right near perfection? Of course not, but maybe
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Wouldn't it be better just to put the crew into a medically induced coma for a year or so instead? Lower metabolisms, less calories and air required and no mental problems to deal with.
No. That would be great training for extended space travel.
This experiment is designed to examine close quartered living arrangements on a foreign planet.
What can we do to keep people from killing each other in Space?
Do you root for Microsoft or the patent troll?
11.06 lots and lots = 1 metric fuck ton
Oh yes, doing something is almost always better than doing nothing.
Sensationalized Cruelty?
I was born a Lannister of Casterly Rock. Things are expected of me.
Right, prohibition never works. Prisons just need more porn, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
Prisons everywhere have alcohol... Apparently, it's quite low tech.
Porn, tobacco, and drugs are made artificially scarce by their prohibition, which, as I understand things,
Leads to a sellers' market.
Why? Just ban prisoners.
Or legalize the porn and tobacco. Prohibition makes it profitable, as always, and the will finds a way.
It's our job as holders of the ballot to right the ship; to make certain the nation's leadership is representative enough to actually read the focking suggestions.
6 years is all the time it takes to clean out the lot of executive and legislative branches.
Slow your roll
if the police remained exclusively involved
in crimes that were petty.
(But what if the terrorist actually turns out to belong to one of the organizations that the US is currently at war with?)
They weren't on-duty, so that may not count.
I think there are medals for actions while serving, but not on-duty, however I'm not sure.
There are, of course, plenty of commendations they can receive, assuming Congress assents.
Yes. And, maybe, since there's been no formal declaration of war to cover the last several U.S. military incursions, combat itself may be open to interpretation.
They gave William McGonagle a MOH for a combat situation the US wasn't formally at War in.
Comrade Putin is brave, honorable, and handsome.
You know how I know?
Over the course of a large enough trial, even long pig doesn't go with everything...and nothing ever does.
Let your friend know, at 80+ proof, pee and poo are but an afterthought, taste and palate wise...
Was there a sliding rate? IE $0.01/gallon for the first 1000 gallons/month. $0.10 for the next 1000 gallons. $0.25 for the next 1000 gallons...
Yes, there was (and is) a sliding scale to penalize the more prolific residential users, although there are seemingly boundless exceptions for commercial customers.
This is how electricity is normally billed, so most homes get one rate, commercial buildings with banks of lights burning all day get another rate, and factories using plasma cutters all day get a different rate.
I keep a home office, and years ago after moving to a new location, I cleverly arranged to have the electricity billed as a commercial account as a write off. Sounded good... I probably paid a 60-85% premium on that account for several years before I realized how much cheaper the residential rates were.
Honey! We'll be driving to Disneyworld this year.
Or you could float the price of water and the problem would solve itself within a few months.
We tried that here, in a similar semidesert-like environment when our reservoirs were running dry. The wealthier citizens (most prolific users of water) still kept their landscaping and lifestyle with an extraordinary ability to absorb the budgetary increase and/or drill private wells to rob from a depleted aquifer. Like most measures of austerity, it has a greater impact on the poor and middle classes.
IIRC, the balls also inhibit sunlight's ability to promote toxic chemical reaction with the water's surface.
If you add sunlight to a mix of bromide and chlorine, you get bromate... a suspected carcinogen.
They ought to do some brain scans of people who can't function away from people while they are at it.
If you keep that kind of talk up, and it catches on, you're going to have to account for an Imperial fuck tonne of Kardashians on the Welfare.
As a person who doesn't need a lot of social interaction, but is completely comfortablle in social situations, I'm closer to understanding the recluse than the social butterfly.
My 2 cents and YMMV: An ability to light up the room in social situations is typically good for those with ladder climbing intentions. Individuals who can accomplish that and still prefer the general absence of human interaction have only figured out how superficial social skills actually are.
The US was caught via the Snowden revelations listening to the private conversations of World leaders.
Would it not be prudent to assume other nations possess similar surveillance technology?
It seems unlikely the West's censure of this behavior would cost the Russians a kopeck, let alone the World Cup or some pricey sanctions. Europe will still purchase Russian petroleum products this winter, and the exploitation of Ukraine for its strategic location and natural resources will continue unabated.
Putin has seemingly waited past the World's collective attention span. Care and concern for Ukraine is waning in the West.
On the security front, the framework calls on manufacturers to employ end-to-end encryption, including device connections to mobile devices and applications and wireless communications to the cloud or other devices. Device makers should include features that force the retirement of default passwords after their first use and to configure multiple user roles with separate passwords for administrative and end-user access.
Some good things are in the proposal.
Beyond that, manufacturers must conspicuously disclose all personally identifiable data types and attributes collected. A health or fitness band would need to inform potential buyers that it harvests data such as their physical location and biometric data like heart rate, pulse, blood pressure and so on.
That word, harvests, is becoming a maddeningly common place term to describe the taking of many different things that are not crops. It seems like a misleadingly benign way to describe taking private information, African animals, or human organs for transplant.
Finally! An equation representing diminishing returns I can get behind.
And yes, I know most Slashdotters would fail the test.
Are we collectively a hive of cradle robbers? Or does the math not work, on average, because of the #DIV/0 error?
Comedy varies from one person to the next, one society to the next, and hell, even one joke teller to the next.
That might be an interesting Turing Test: you win when your machina can tell me one of those laugh till it hurts, "Please stop, please stop!" jokes.
There becomes a measurable, yet acceptable level of environmental consequence for the creation of energy using fossil fuels, hydro, solar, and even wind.
Should the bar for nuclear use be set right near perfection? Of course not, but maybe