You need the equivalent of 15-25 minutes of exposure to good quality sunlight, I believe, so I'm not sure how low an exposure would do. I'm thinking that people with lots of reptile lights in their house might get enough just from being around them an hour or two a day, but I'm not sure.
Almost all modern lighting not specifically designed to do so puts out no measurable UVB, because it allegedly causes skin cancer. At least, if you sit in a tanning bed an hour a day baking in it. Black lights are nearly all UVA, and some visible spectrum light.
All those sound good to me, but the UVB bulbs still sound nice for the winter. I wonder if the UV spectrum light has any other side benefits other than vitamin D.
Cure is generally used as I explained it's generally used, thats why the joke is a stretch, and thus, easily misinterpreted and less funny, especially since the OP used it as I explained it. Nobody said anything about the good of the individual vs the survival of the species other than you, which is why I think the joke was off-target and got the response it did. I think they did understand it was intended to be humor, and simply found the humor, as they said, tasteless, particularly so since it was such a stretch to apply it and yes, scientifically incorrect to do so using the word cure in the original context. To start a side discussion for fun, it's arguable that cancer killing off older generations at any point after they are no longer effective enough at passing on knowledge to increase the chances of survival for the reproductive age members of the species IS good for the species as a whole. (Note - I am not suggesting we study old people to discover what nutrients they might contain.)
Two things. With the cancer at least, the point being made is that it tends to occur late in life, and therefor, yes, natural selection is an ineffective method for for removing the predisposition, since reproductive opportunities have already presented themselves. More to the point, a "cure" is generally understood to mean something that removes an affliction from an individual, and thus natural selection, which acts on genetic trends in a population, can't ever be the cure for anything.
Personally, I like good audio equipment, but hate spending much money on stuff that won't make any difference in my cluttered space, or any difference at all. I found the bang for your buck solution was mid-late 70's solid states, either just the amp units that have no preamp, or receivers with jumpers between the main in and preamp outputs, the receivers being my favorite because the lower quality of their preamp/tuner sections keeps their cost low. You combine these with any decent sound card with a good signal to noise ratio. I just pop out the preamp unit/main in jumpers, run the preamp input into the aux input on my sound card(just in case I want to tune in some AM or FM radio, I keep both it and all the other inputs on the card muted 99% of the time, so, you know, it actually HAS the low noise it's supposed to) and run the main output of my sound card to the main in on the receiver. You can generally turn the volume on the computer to 100% without ANY audible noise in the speakers, even with your ears up to the cones. I've found this type of setup gets louder with less distortion than most modern setups costing over 10 times as much.
That it came up for discussion under oath is a sign of what a problem we have right now. We have no right to be asking elected officials under oath about their personal sexual lives. Matters of national security, of course. Matters of conflict of interest, of course. But blowjobs? What's even more pathetic is putting baseball players under oath to ask them about steroid use. What a laughable waste of time, it's a damn GAME, and this is what our elected officials spend time on, interrogating ballplayers?
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't like the word broken. Broken implies they aren't doing what they're intended to, but I don't think thats the case. They're generating the needed numbers of Walmart clerks and other low wage workers, which is success if preparing students for their most likely future occupations is the goal.
My dad handled this really well. I'd come up with what I wanted to do, and he'd show me how it was done. Then, I'd try variations on my own as I got more ideas.
Yes, unfortunately. Thats why we had to listen to "My Lumps" over and over even when trying to change the radio dial, even though it was garbage to a half decent beat.
It's cocoa butter and sugar - or at least, real white chocolate is. Fat and sugar is what's inside Twinkies and suzy q's. Lately, certain companies making true and other types of chocolate have been lobbying the FDA to change the definition so inexpensive vegetable fats can be substituted for cocoa butter as the primary fatty additive, previously doing this would result in a product being called "chocolate flavored" instead of chocolate.
One reason I can think of - employment. Life insurance through Target, where I worked, was amazingly inexpensive if you were young. A few dollars every other week for 100k coverage. It's so cheap it's almost silly not to get it.
More than a couple days is pushing it here, but they prefer to do this at traffic stops or after accidents, making you late for important appointments and otherwise causing peripheral damage.
The Police can "detain" and question you for as long as they want, as long as it isn't "excessive" without making an arrest, and you must allow this. You don't have to answer, but you can't go anywhere. Excessive seems to be defined however the police wish, however.
Uncomfortable = incriminating to cops, so the general strategy is to make you as uncomfortable and disoriented as possible for as long as possible, so they will feel fully justified in whatever other unethical things they feel like doing to get their conviction numbers up.
If it's in any way comforting, we ARE all doomed(eventually, unless we colonize another solar system), as our star IS in fact going to slowly expand until it engulfs the plant.
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You need the equivalent of 15-25 minutes of exposure to good quality sunlight, I believe, so I'm not sure how low an exposure would do. I'm thinking that people with lots of reptile lights in their house might get enough just from being around them an hour or two a day, but I'm not sure.
Almost all modern lighting not specifically designed to do so puts out no measurable UVB, because it allegedly causes skin cancer. At least, if you sit in a tanning bed an hour a day baking in it. Black lights are nearly all UVA, and some visible spectrum light.
All those sound good to me, but the UVB bulbs still sound nice for the winter. I wonder if the UV spectrum light has any other side benefits other than vitamin D.
This is EASY, people. It's not like they don't sell UVB 2% up to 10% daylight CPF screw in light bulbs at any decent pet store that carries reptiles.
Cure is generally used as I explained it's generally used, thats why the joke is a stretch, and thus, easily misinterpreted and less funny, especially since the OP used it as I explained it. Nobody said anything about the good of the individual vs the survival of the species other than you, which is why I think the joke was off-target and got the response it did. I think they did understand it was intended to be humor, and simply found the humor, as they said, tasteless, particularly so since it was such a stretch to apply it and yes, scientifically incorrect to do so using the word cure in the original context. To start a side discussion for fun, it's arguable that cancer killing off older generations at any point after they are no longer effective enough at passing on knowledge to increase the chances of survival for the reproductive age members of the species IS good for the species as a whole. (Note - I am not suggesting we study old people to discover what nutrients they might contain.)
Two things. With the cancer at least, the point being made is that it tends to occur late in life, and therefor, yes, natural selection is an ineffective method for for removing the predisposition, since reproductive opportunities have already presented themselves. More to the point, a "cure" is generally understood to mean something that removes an affliction from an individual, and thus natural selection, which acts on genetic trends in a population, can't ever be the cure for anything.
Personally, I like good audio equipment, but hate spending much money on stuff that won't make any difference in my cluttered space, or any difference at all. I found the bang for your buck solution was mid-late 70's solid states, either just the amp units that have no preamp, or receivers with jumpers between the main in and preamp outputs, the receivers being my favorite because the lower quality of their preamp/tuner sections keeps their cost low. You combine these with any decent sound card with a good signal to noise ratio. I just pop out the preamp unit/main in jumpers, run the preamp input into the aux input on my sound card(just in case I want to tune in some AM or FM radio, I keep both it and all the other inputs on the card muted 99% of the time, so, you know, it actually HAS the low noise it's supposed to) and run the main output of my sound card to the main in on the receiver. You can generally turn the volume on the computer to 100% without ANY audible noise in the speakers, even with your ears up to the cones. I've found this type of setup gets louder with less distortion than most modern setups costing over 10 times as much.
Indeed, right now the national government makes much more per gallon sold in the US than the stations selling it...
That it came up for discussion under oath is a sign of what a problem we have right now. We have no right to be asking elected officials under oath about their personal sexual lives. Matters of national security, of course. Matters of conflict of interest, of course. But blowjobs? What's even more pathetic is putting baseball players under oath to ask them about steroid use. What a laughable waste of time, it's a damn GAME, and this is what our elected officials spend time on, interrogating ballplayers?
I for one would LOVE to see a well done photoshop image of the world burning with a moped Jesus tearing ass down I50!
Problem is you're going to have to defeat the corn lobby to make that one work out.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't like the word broken. Broken implies they aren't doing what they're intended to, but I don't think thats the case. They're generating the needed numbers of Walmart clerks and other low wage workers, which is success if preparing students for their most likely future occupations is the goal.
I believe you may have melted my brain with that link.
My dad handled this really well. I'd come up with what I wanted to do, and he'd show me how it was done. Then, I'd try variations on my own as I got more ideas.
Yes, unfortunately. Thats why we had to listen to "My Lumps" over and over even when trying to change the radio dial, even though it was garbage to a half decent beat.
observers, rather.
Unless you asshat opponent has probes EVERYWHERE.
It's cocoa butter and sugar - or at least, real white chocolate is. Fat and sugar is what's inside Twinkies and suzy q's. Lately, certain companies making true and other types of chocolate have been lobbying the FDA to change the definition so inexpensive vegetable fats can be substituted for cocoa butter as the primary fatty additive, previously doing this would result in a product being called "chocolate flavored" instead of chocolate.
One reason I can think of - employment. Life insurance through Target, where I worked, was amazingly inexpensive if you were young. A few dollars every other week for 100k coverage. It's so cheap it's almost silly not to get it.
More than a couple days is pushing it here, but they prefer to do this at traffic stops or after accidents, making you late for important appointments and otherwise causing peripheral damage.
The Police can "detain" and question you for as long as they want, as long as it isn't "excessive" without making an arrest, and you must allow this. You don't have to answer, but you can't go anywhere. Excessive seems to be defined however the police wish, however.
Uncomfortable = incriminating to cops, so the general strategy is to make you as uncomfortable and disoriented as possible for as long as possible, so they will feel fully justified in whatever other unethical things they feel like doing to get their conviction numbers up.
I suspect the project will be secreted away to Russia, and continue development, but never be seen again in the USA, personally ;)
If it's in any way comforting, we ARE all doomed(eventually, unless we colonize another solar system), as our star IS in fact going to slowly expand until it engulfs the plant.
I wondered where my paragraphs went. I usually never post anything long enough to need them guess I better look.