Since the limits are the same, the integral is zero (by FTC, re-take Calculus I for details).
If I recall correctly, the integral approaches zero as the number of steps approaches infinity. Usualy, that's just a technicality, and saying "the integral is" is the same as saying "the integral approaches". But when things get weird, the picky details get significant.
On the other hand, it's been a few years and I could be completely wrong.
The Sagan idea doesn't work with this. Even if the Earth became a black hole, there would be evidence of humans having existed. Earth would be a black hole with the same gravitational pull as it has now, just no size and an accessible event horizon.
It would be a black hole with a moon and satelites, some of them artificial.
And when physicists talk about "small but non-zero probablility" remember that there is a small but non-zero probability that a baseball-sized chunk of the Sun will appear on your desk within the next five minutes, due to quantum effects.
When these guys say "small", they mean it.
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That is the whole point. All the spy stuff is just not likely to be practical any time soon - probably easier to put a tiny camera into your victim's eyeball than to run all those probes in the brain.
But cracking that code is an incredible achievement, and I suspect it has major implications beyond the visual. It means we know more about how nerves and brains work.
The real problem isn't that there is too much information out there.
I can easily cut myself off from all of it. I have already cut off or severely restricted several data streams. The newspaper is down to Sunday only, and I only read selected bits of it. OK, I read the comics. I haven't watched the TV news regularly in several years, and I haven't watched it at all in several weeks. I watch about two hours of TV per week - not as a "kill your TV" thing, I just don't have time.
Over-abundance of a resource is not a problem. There is too much water in the ocean for any one person, but in most cases staying on high ground is an effective solution to the hydroclysm.
The problem is the fear of missing something important. And what is important depends on who you are.
There have been several methods proposed for reducing data streams to that which is important. One that Jon may find helpful (particularly considering the current article*) is called an "Editor". I don't mean software for developing text, but an actual human being who is paid to judge the worth, validity, and relevance of documents.
But the problems of rampant technology can't be solved by blocking my access to information. If Clotho decides I don't have to know about the latest PalmPilot, but my boss wants me to download her files and she uses the useless and incompatible new format, I have a problem. I haven't spent thousands of dollars on newer and better computers just because I heard that they are better than my Apple ][ (which I think is still operational, although I gave it away a few years ago) and Clotho can't force people to write software and build peripherals for it. The march (or, lately, screaming psychotic panic-flight) of technology isn't going to be slowed by better filters on my 'net access.
Clotho.com would have served up all the Monica information anyway. That's what was selling. Clotho.org would get PBS-level usage. And I will gladly volunteer to fight to the death against Clotho.gov.
* I usually like his articles, but this one stinks.
The central idea in Buddism (Zen or otherwise) is detatchment from the illusion of the world.
Seems particularly appropriate here.
While Buddism is not for me - I like the illusion - a certain degree of detatchment is vital when faced with more of a resource than can be used.
Some of that detatchment can be technological. By not/.ing at -1, I let go of many messages. Some of it is mental. I skim mailing list messages quickly, weakening my connection to those communities.
I also detatch from technology in more drastic ways. I go camping from time to time, without bringing any communication technology more advanced than a notepad and fountain pen. And I tend not to use even that. I go outside and watch rabbits and squirrels in my yard, and I can be reached only by the most direct of methods.
And even when I am doing technological things, I use the simplest appropriate technology.
Yet I enjoy the cool stuff.
Some people write that the advanced technology is a tool to them. I approach new technology differently. It is a toy to me until I am ready to use it, and I am very particular about what I use as a tool. A tool changes the person who uses it. A boy with a hammer sees the world as a collection of nails. Without my tools, I would be much less than what I am. The phrase "just a tool" is absurd to me. So I am careful in my choice of tools. But "just a toy" makes sense to me, and I do love to play with the flashy new toys.
Detatchment, again. I can set down a toy and never look back. It does not become part of me. To set down a tool, though, is to reduce my effectiveness, and that is a serious decision.
How did he monkey-wrench the MTV(tm) X-treme(tm) Dew(tm)-doing corporate blandness? I've only watched scattered bits of episodes of Road Rules, so maybe I missed it. But from what I've heard, he couldn't have played it closer to the script if there had been a script.
Not that that is a bad thing: apparently he got good value for his performance. But when The Man wants you to Be A Rebel(tm) and you are, don't expect me to be impressed at your independance.
Unless you are complying with The Man in order to defy his demand that you rebel, in which case I'm too confused to award points, but a case of Duff Beer would cure that.
I mean, if it's OK to be gay and not OK to smoke, that sounds like right and wrong to me.
Not, perhaps, the exact ones you want, but if you study history, you notice that there have always been some differences of opinion.
Frankly, the idea that one should withhold moral judgement on another person's sexuality, considering that sexuality (as opposed to sexual behavior) is not a matter of choice, seems right to me. And indulging a drug addiction in a way that exposes others to foul-smelling (not to mention unhealthy, and lets completely ignore the fire hazards) smoke is, by any ethics not funded by Phillip Morris, wrong.
I would certainly agree that we need to expose kids to hope and beauty, and the truth that the world is a pretty great place and life is likely to bring them delights they can't comprehend now. (And, no, sex is only one of many.) The currently fashionable level of hopelesness and cynicism is just not warranted by facts. Studying a bit of history helps.
but Bill Gates can get rid of about.1 % of his shares and buy Red Hat outright.
No. The market capitalization (the price per share X the number of shares) is just under $5B at this point. BG does not have $5000B. He could buy up Red Hat, but it would not be insignficant anymore. Red Hat now represents a lot of money. There is suddenly serious money in Linux. What this does to the perception of Linux in the CPU (sorry, I just can't say "mind" in this context) of the average PHB is very, very important.
The Maya calendar is accurate. The problem is in figuring out which of our less accurate day-labels corresponds to the day that the Maya calendar so accurately indicates.
(Um, actually, the design parameters for the calendars are quite different. You ask two different questions, you get two different answers. The Maya calendar, IIRC, solves the problem of the year not being an integer number of days by having a 360 day year with either 5 or 6 days being completely off the calendar. You just don't do ANYTHING on those days, so there is no need to schedule appointments or record events.)
The very first utopian, Plato, did the same thing in his Republic. "There will be a perfect society... ruled by philosphers!"
Um, no.
Assuming Socrates wasn't a fictional character, Plato only wrote down the Republic. And Socrates mentions that, unfortunately, there will be no place for people such as himself in the ideal society. He didn't cast himself as the Philosopher-King, but as the asker of annoying questions. The kind of person a proper Philosopher-King would exile or kill before too much damage was done.
no one scores a zero on a multiple choice test without actually knowing the answers.
The guy behind me in health class in High School did. Genius was cheating on a test with such hard questions as "T/F: Smoking is good for you" so I answered everything wrong. After he handed in his paper, I erased mine and started over. OK, considering the fact that he pulled a switchblade on me the next day, I guess I didn't have all the healthy answers...
Um, you compared the stamp price increases to the inflation rate over substantial time periods lately?
The latest stamp price increase covered the inflation rate for the year it happened. But there are typicaly several years between stamp price increases.
Stamps are getting cheaper, not more expensive, in fixed-value dollars.
An IPO is a great opportunity for you to lose a huge wad o' cash, removing yourself and a substantial number of those you tell your story to from the market, while paying a small commission. E*Trade, and the whole investment industry, would rather have you make a series of less speculative investments adding up to much more money, and lots more commissions.
The fat cats LIKE the unwashed masses. The unwashed masses bring in lots of little piles of money.
RedHat has no control over what e-Trade's rules are. And RedHat warned that there were rules.
e-Trade seems to be doing something a little off by accepting deposits to open accounts that can't be used for the purpose for which they were opened. But if they offer to close the account without charging a fee, then I don't see any reasonable beef with them. Other than, possibly, a philosophical point that they shouldn't be protecting you from yourself.
I'm not sure whether e-Trade's rules on who can buy into an IPO are dictated directly by the SEC, but I strongly suspect they are at least "encouraged" by the SEC.
Stock markets are kind of ugly for libretarians. Lots of rules, many of which make little sense taken one at a time or in any particular special case. But those rules make the market. At the very least, the rules increase the value of the market. For example, without the very goofy-feeling insider trading restrictions, insiders would have so much advantage in trading that it would be foolish for those without such an advantage to trade, and the market capitalization of a company would be limited to the wealth of the insiders.
Anyway, IPOs are quite risky. It is easy to lose most of your stake, even if the company is very good. The investment industry doesn't want you (or your idiot brother who would bet next month's rent that RedHat, being such a cool company, is a guaranteed great investment) going broke - that's bad for business, you won't be investing any more. The online companies don't want you going broke - that's bad business AND bad publicity and invites severe regulation. With an actual broker, you would be dealing with someone who can make a judgement call that this particular move isn't going to ruin you. The software isn't up to that.
You can lose your shirt on regular investments, but it's harder to do and takes longer. And playing markets as a form of gambling is kind of silly. Yes, there is risk involved, but the game has a positve sum. Both you and the house can win. Take it seriously and pay attention, and you can make some serious $$.
Lastly, e-Trade is probably doing the right thing in most of these cases. An IPO is not a good introduction to securities trading.
(DISCLAIMER: I'm not a securities expert. This is not advice. Ya can't sue me.)
OK, you clone the bird. But then you have a bird with no living parents.
Is flying a learned behavior? I don't know.
Food gathering? I suppose that's something humans could teach.
What about courtship rituals? Learned? Instinctive? both?
I don't know much about birds, but I do know that quite a few kinds of mammals don't develope correctly without at least a little interaction with, or at least observation of, members of their own species.
Still, cloning is better than extinction.
As far as the argument that people will think cloning makes extinction OK, I doubt it. Cloning puts a very specific - and high - dollar value on an extinction. That will get through to people who can't see the value of something without a price tag. Many people, particularly in business and govornment, who aren't willing to act on something that they can't put a number on. The fact that you can't put a price on the extinction of a species without economic impact prevents these people from taking extinction seriously. "Oh, it'll cost $50 mil. to clone a spotted owl? Maybe it's cheaper to just let them breed."
I'm not entirely convinced computers are all that important. They are for me, but that's my own choice of career and obsession. Yes, there are some basic computer skills that just about every job and college require. And you can pick those up in a few hours at the library. The complicated stuff is specific to the company or school. And my kids get good use out of my machine, looking things up and writing papers. But the web research they do is slow and the results are unreliable. Writing papers with a pencil is still not only viable but a good idea much of the time.
I'm starting to consider the idea that being unwebbed might, like being off TV, be an advantage. Yeah, I'm a hypocrite, being unwebbed is an advantage that I'm suggesting for others, not me. The web is my job and my personal problem.
I'm not saying I'm right, here. I'm asking a question that I think we've missed. I'm willing to entertain the idea, and I'm willing to be convinced, that every kid should be wired in. But I'm not taking it as given.
and it goes bad. You end up with a black hole with the mass of the moon.
The moon is quite far enough. A black hole doesn't suck any harder than the same mass of cheese. The difference is that the cheese takes up space, while the black hole doesn't, unless you count the event horizon...
Building the lab on the back side of the moon wouldn't make it any safer in terms of black hole problems. Radiation problems, sure. But when you consider solar and other cosmic radiation, anything human-made coming from the moon is going to be pretty minor. Human-made radiation sources on the planet can be a problem because they are inside the defenses.
I bet if you didn't do that stuff, you'd be huger, and feel cruddy, limp, and stupid all the time. That's what happens to me when I don't stay active.
But my point is that being active is much, much better than being inactive, while exercize to the point of pain is not much better, maybe worse, than being active.
I don't know what to tell you on the weight - it's not as simple as people used to think. I'd like to think my relative lightness (for an American) is due to clean, active living and avoiding gluttony except on special occasions, but I strongly suspect I just plain got lucky on the genetics and early childhood developement. I know people who exercise more than I do and eat less, and have weight problems.
The amount of exercise that it takes to get and stay healthy is not large, and it doesn't have to be hard.
Just need to get up and do something physical - take a walk, ride a bike, build a deck, whatever. If you sweat a little and it isn't from the heat, or if you have to breath hard, and you keep doing what you were doing for 20 minutes or half an hour, and don't skip it more than one day in a row, that's all it takes. You will feel better, look better, be smarter. And you will easily make up the half hour in increased efficiency for the rest of the day.
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Moderation points in the form of ammo?
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Homer
If I recall correctly, the integral approaches zero as the number of steps approaches infinity. Usualy, that's just a technicality, and saying "the integral is" is the same as saying "the integral approaches". But when things get weird, the picky details get significant.
On the other hand, it's been a few years and I could be completely wrong.
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Homer
The Sagan idea doesn't work with this. Even if the Earth became a black hole, there would be evidence of humans having existed. Earth would be a black hole with the same gravitational pull as it has now, just no size and an accessible event horizon.
It would be a black hole with a moon and satelites, some of them artificial.
And when physicists talk about "small but non-zero probablility" remember that there is a small but non-zero probability that a baseball-sized chunk of the Sun will appear on your desk within the next five minutes, due to quantum effects.
When these guys say "small", they mean it.
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Homer
That is the whole point. All the spy stuff is just not likely to be practical any time soon - probably easier to put a tiny camera into your victim's eyeball than to run all those probes in the brain.
But cracking that code is an incredible achievement, and I suspect it has major implications beyond the visual. It means we know more about how nerves and brains work.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
The real problem isn't that there is too much information out there.
I can easily cut myself off from all of it. I have already cut off or severely restricted several data streams. The newspaper is down to Sunday only, and I only read selected bits of it. OK, I read the comics. I haven't watched the TV news regularly in several years, and I haven't watched it at all in several weeks. I watch about two hours of TV per week - not as a "kill your TV" thing, I just don't have time.
Over-abundance of a resource is not a problem. There is too much water in the ocean for any one person, but in most cases staying on high ground is an effective solution to the hydroclysm.
The problem is the fear of missing something important. And what is important depends on who you are.
There have been several methods proposed for reducing data streams to that which is important. One that Jon may find helpful (particularly considering the current article*) is called an "Editor". I don't mean software for developing text, but an actual human being who is paid to judge the worth, validity, and relevance of documents.
But the problems of rampant technology can't be solved by blocking my access to information. If Clotho decides I don't have to know about the latest PalmPilot, but my boss wants me to download her files and she uses the useless and incompatible new format, I have a problem. I haven't spent thousands of dollars on newer and better computers just because I heard that they are better than my Apple ][ (which I think is still operational, although I gave it away a few years ago) and Clotho can't force people to write software and build peripherals for it. The march (or, lately, screaming psychotic panic-flight) of technology isn't going to be slowed by better filters on my 'net access.
Clotho.com would have served up all the Monica information anyway. That's what was selling.
Clotho.org would get PBS-level usage.
And I will gladly volunteer to fight to the death against Clotho.gov.
* I usually like his articles, but this one stinks.
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Homer
are rare.
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Homer
The central idea in Buddism (Zen or otherwise) is detatchment from the illusion of the world.
/.ing at -1, I let go of many messages. Some of it is mental. I skim mailing list messages quickly, weakening my connection to those communities.
Seems particularly appropriate here.
While Buddism is not for me - I like the illusion - a certain degree of detatchment is vital when faced with more of a resource than can be used.
Some of that detatchment can be technological. By not
I also detatch from technology in more drastic ways. I go camping from time to time, without bringing any communication technology more advanced than a notepad and fountain pen. And I tend not to use even that. I go outside and watch rabbits and squirrels in my yard, and I can be reached only by the most direct of methods.
And even when I am doing technological things, I use the simplest appropriate technology.
Yet I enjoy the cool stuff.
Some people write that the advanced technology is a tool to them. I approach new technology differently. It is a toy to me until I am ready to use it, and I am very particular about what I use as a tool. A tool changes the person who uses it. A boy with a hammer sees the world as a collection of nails. Without my tools, I would be much less than what I am. The phrase "just a tool" is absurd to me. So I am careful in my choice of tools. But "just a toy" makes sense to me, and I do love to play with the flashy new toys.
Detatchment, again. I can set down a toy and never look back. It does not become part of me. To set down a tool, though, is to reduce my effectiveness, and that is a serious decision.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
How did he monkey-wrench the MTV(tm) X-treme(tm) Dew(tm)-doing corporate blandness? I've only watched scattered bits of episodes of Road Rules, so maybe I missed it. But from what I've heard, he couldn't have played it closer to the script if there had been a script.
Not that that is a bad thing: apparently he got good value for his performance. But when The Man wants you to Be A Rebel(tm) and you are, don't expect me to be impressed at your independance.
Unless you are complying with The Man in order to defy his demand that you rebel, in which case I'm too confused to award points, but a case of Duff Beer would cure that.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
I mean, if it's OK to be gay and not OK to smoke, that sounds like right and wrong to me.
Not, perhaps, the exact ones you want, but if you study history, you notice that there have always been some differences of opinion.
Frankly, the idea that one should withhold moral judgement on another person's sexuality, considering that sexuality (as opposed to sexual behavior) is not a matter of choice, seems right to me.
And indulging a drug addiction in a way that exposes others to foul-smelling (not to mention unhealthy, and lets completely ignore the fire hazards) smoke is, by any ethics not funded by Phillip Morris, wrong.
I would certainly agree that we need to expose kids to hope and beauty, and the truth that the world is a pretty great place and life is likely to bring them delights they can't comprehend now. (And, no, sex is only one of many.) The currently fashionable level of hopelesness and cynicism is just not warranted by facts. Studying a bit of history helps.
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Homer
No.
The market capitalization (the price per share X the number of shares) is just under $5B at this point. BG does not have $5000B. He could buy up Red Hat, but it would not be insignficant anymore.
Red Hat now represents a lot of money. There is suddenly serious money in Linux. What this does to the perception of Linux in the CPU (sorry, I just can't say "mind" in this context) of the average PHB is very, very important.
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Homer
The Maya calendar is accurate.
The problem is in figuring out which of our less accurate day-labels corresponds to the day that the Maya calendar so accurately indicates.
(Um, actually, the design parameters for the calendars are quite different. You ask two different questions, you get two different answers. The Maya calendar, IIRC, solves the problem of the year not being an integer number of days by having a 360 day year with either 5 or 6 days being completely off the calendar. You just don't do ANYTHING on those days, so there is no need to schedule appointments or record events.)
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Homer
Who pays for commercials? Who makes the big campaign contributions?
"X = X" is tautology, not conspiracy.
Must sign off, I'm conspiring to take myself to lunch.
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Homer
Um, no.
Assuming Socrates wasn't a fictional character, Plato only wrote down the Republic. And Socrates mentions that, unfortunately, there will be no place for people such as himself in the ideal society. He didn't cast himself as the Philosopher-King, but as the asker of annoying questions. The kind of person a proper Philosopher-King would exile or kill before too much damage was done.
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Homer
M[r|s]. Wire, please report to the office. Doctor Jones would like a word with you...
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Homer
Genius was cheating on a test with such hard questions as "T/F: Smoking is good for you" so I answered everything wrong. After he handed in his paper, I erased mine and started over.
OK, considering the fact that he pulled a switchblade on me the next day, I guess I didn't have all the healthy answers...
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Homer
Um, you compared the stamp price increases to the inflation rate over substantial time periods lately?
The latest stamp price increase covered the inflation rate for the year it happened. But there are typicaly several years between stamp price increases.
Stamps are getting cheaper, not more expensive, in fixed-value dollars.
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Homer
More like cooking the goose.
An IPO is a great opportunity for you to lose a huge wad o' cash, removing yourself and a substantial number of those you tell your story to from the market, while paying a small commission. E*Trade, and the whole investment industry, would rather have you make a series of less speculative investments adding up to much more money, and lots more commissions.
The fat cats LIKE the unwashed masses. The unwashed masses bring in lots of little piles of money.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
No, it doesn't.
RedHat has no control over what e-Trade's rules are. And RedHat warned that there were rules.
e-Trade seems to be doing something a little off by accepting deposits to open accounts that can't be used for the purpose for which they were opened. But if they offer to close the account without charging a fee, then I don't see any reasonable beef with them. Other than, possibly, a philosophical point that they shouldn't be protecting you from yourself.
I'm not sure whether e-Trade's rules on who can buy into an IPO are dictated directly by the SEC, but I strongly suspect they are at least "encouraged" by the SEC.
Stock markets are kind of ugly for libretarians. Lots of rules, many of which make little sense taken one at a time or in any particular special case. But those rules make the market. At the very least, the rules increase the value of the market. For example, without the very goofy-feeling insider trading restrictions, insiders would have so much advantage in trading that it would be foolish for those without such an advantage to trade, and the market capitalization of a company would be limited to the wealth of the insiders.
Anyway, IPOs are quite risky. It is easy to lose most of your stake, even if the company is very good. The investment industry doesn't want you (or your idiot brother who would bet next month's rent that RedHat, being such a cool company, is a guaranteed great investment) going broke - that's bad for business, you won't be investing any more. The online companies don't want you going broke - that's bad business AND bad publicity and invites severe regulation. With an actual broker, you would be dealing with someone who can make a judgement call that this particular move isn't going to ruin you. The software isn't up to that.
You can lose your shirt on regular investments, but it's harder to do and takes longer. And playing markets as a form of gambling is kind of silly. Yes, there is risk involved, but the game has a positve sum. Both you and the house can win. Take it seriously and pay attention, and you can make some serious $$.
Lastly, e-Trade is probably doing the right thing in most of these cases. An IPO is not a good introduction to securities trading.
(DISCLAIMER: I'm not a securities expert. This is not advice. Ya can't sue me.)
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Homer
OK, you clone the bird. But then you have a bird with no living parents.
Is flying a learned behavior? I don't know.
Food gathering? I suppose that's something humans could teach.
What about courtship rituals? Learned? Instinctive? both?
I don't know much about birds, but I do know that quite a few kinds of mammals don't develope correctly without at least a little interaction with, or at least observation of, members of their own species.
Still, cloning is better than extinction.
As far as the argument that people will think cloning makes extinction OK, I doubt it. Cloning puts a very specific - and high - dollar value on an extinction. That will get through to people who can't see the value of something without a price tag. Many people, particularly in business and govornment, who aren't willing to act on something that they can't put a number on. The fact that you can't put a price on the extinction of a species without economic impact prevents these people from taking extinction seriously. "Oh, it'll cost $50 mil. to clone a spotted owl? Maybe it's cheaper to just let them breed."
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Homer
Hi. Mike here. Nice day, ain't it?
You have now met a programmer who didn't play video games until he was 19. Cuz there weren't any. And I only have a few grey streaks.
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Homer
I'm not entirely convinced computers are all that important.
They are for me, but that's my own choice of career and obsession.
Yes, there are some basic computer skills that just about every job and college require. And you can pick those up in a few hours at the library. The complicated stuff is specific to the company or school.
And my kids get good use out of my machine, looking things up and writing papers. But the web research they do is slow and the results are unreliable. Writing papers with a pencil is still not only viable but a good idea much of the time.
I'm starting to consider the idea that being unwebbed might, like being off TV, be an advantage. Yeah, I'm a hypocrite, being unwebbed is an advantage that I'm suggesting for others, not me. The web is my job and my personal problem.
I'm not saying I'm right, here. I'm asking a question that I think we've missed. I'm willing to entertain the idea, and I'm willing to be convinced, that every kid should be wired in. But I'm not taking it as given.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer
and it goes bad. You end up with a black hole with the mass of the moon.
The moon is quite far enough. A black hole doesn't suck any harder than the same mass of cheese. The difference is that the cheese takes up space, while the black hole doesn't, unless you count the event horizon...
Building the lab on the back side of the moon wouldn't make it any safer in terms of black hole problems. Radiation problems, sure. But when you consider solar and other cosmic radiation, anything human-made coming from the moon is going to be pretty minor. Human-made radiation sources on the planet can be a problem because they are inside the defenses.
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Homer
I bet if you didn't do that stuff, you'd be huger, and feel cruddy, limp, and stupid all the time. That's what happens to me when I don't stay active.
But my point is that being active is much, much better than being inactive, while exercize to the point of pain is not much better, maybe worse, than being active.
I don't know what to tell you on the weight - it's not as simple as people used to think. I'd like to think my relative lightness (for an American) is due to clean, active living and avoiding gluttony except on special occasions, but I strongly suspect I just plain got lucky on the genetics and early childhood developement. I know people who exercise more than I do and eat less, and have weight problems.
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Homer
Pain is a signal that something is wrong.
The amount of exercise that it takes to get and stay healthy is not large, and it doesn't have to be hard.
Just need to get up and do something physical - take a walk, ride a bike, build a deck, whatever. If you sweat a little and it isn't from the heat, or if you have to breath hard, and you keep doing what you were doing for 20 minutes or half an hour, and don't skip it more than one day in a row, that's all it takes. You will feel better, look better, be smarter. And you will easily make up the half hour in increased efficiency for the rest of the day.
Fear my wrath, please, fear my wrath?
Homer