I agree with you 100%.
I lost 50 lbs from low-carb dieting. And I ate more salads than I ever have in my life. But if you stop doing it, you'll gain it all back.
Who are these "people" you're citing? The ISS is a box to hold people. It's low enough to reduce radiation exposure to the soft people-parts inside. I'm glad you think you're smarter than NASA, RKA, ESA, JAXA, and the CSA, but I don't. Thanks for coming out.
I wouldn't really call that "calmly addressing an issue." It seems more like passive-aggressive oscillations.
A measured response would be to calmly and consistently root out cheaters and give them a warning, then monitor and ban their accounts if necessary. Wash, rinse, repeat, and publicize the results. "Today we banned two bot-using cheaters," would be a great way to start a news page, wouldn't it? Especially if there was a headline like that every day.
And given how many bots are in EVE, I don't really know what CCP is doing to stop it, if anything at all.
Absolutely. What anonymous does not understand is that, when a character is portrayed as doing something, the writers are not encouraging it or even condoning it. Sometimes they're asking a question or making a statement about the ugliness of man's potential inhumanity.
You'd think that, in a place like Slashdot, where people yell, "Don't ban my violent video games because they're just commentary on modern life," that everyone would automatically get this.
Finally, the voice of reason has appeared in this discussion. Rsalvo, you're absolutely right, there are very important reasons to get vaccinated that have nothing to do with cancer. HPV, even if it doesn't result in cancer, is a virus that causes illness and in some cases disfigurement. Even without looking at cancer, it's a serious health care issue.
Though, those 3670 dead mothers and daughters and sisters you pointed to are kind of hard to put out of your head when thinking on this issue and truly are a good reason in and of itself to vaccinate.
It's really interesting to me to see how many men weighed in on the issue of this vaccine. I'm very happy to see how many people care about what could be seen as a "women's issue."
First, a little background. I've received the first two shots in the Gardasil series and am two months away from the third.
Why did I choose to get this vaccine? Not only am I a sexually active woman who fears cancer (my mother died of breast cancer at 37), I'm also concerned because of the pain and suffering I've seen in women who have had genital warts.
Two close friends had to have abnormal cells burned off their cervixes. That's a panful procedure. And in this country, with public health care, the costs of those procedures comes out of the taxpayers' wallets.
And yes, I'm also concerned about the men I've dated and will date in the future. I don't want to be the cause of the pain, suffering, and embarrassment that men endure when they have visible warts on their genitals.
Finally, I don't want to be a burden on an already overburdened health system. Because, when you have a publicly funded health care system, it really is your responsibility to think about the greater good.
So why doesn't everyone get this vaccine? It's $700 Canadian for all three shots. Luckily (even though I make less money than the average man in my city) I have health coverage that covers part of it. Unfortunately, my sister's health plan does not. Will she be able to afford it? Probably not, sad to say.
So, should it be publicly funded? Should it be mandated? Should it be delivered via an opt-out system? Is it reprehensible that it costs so much? I don't have the answers. But it would be nice if it wasn't out of the price range of so many women. At least giving the average person the choice seems like the humane thing to do.
I agree that Berman should have nothing to do with Star Trek ever again. I'd also add Braga to that list. What a couple of fools. No guts to do the hard writing, no respect for the franchise, and creatively bankrupt.
I once had the extreme privilege of having supper with DC Fontana, who said that she believed that all of Hollywood could really use an infusion of new talent into their writing staffs. Unfortunately, I think the same bad writers and other creative people, without a fresh combination of ideas left in their heads, are shuffled from show to show to show and are kept in the fold long after they have outlived their usefulness.
And speaking of fan-created ST, I was really impressed with Star Trek: New Voyages. I think it really captured the essence of what I loved about TOS. The writing and production quality are among the best I've seen in any fan production for any show.
I agree, wholeheartedly. And just because there might not be some "name" with "star power" who happens to be in his twenties who would be a good pick, doesn't mean there isn't a great actor out there who would be the right age and perfect for the part.
But that would require the creative team and the casting director to do some actual work, which seems to be kind of lacking in the creative and production teams from Star Treks of late.
No, no! I'm in Canada, and it's exactly the same crap.
I may love Canada from the bottom of my heart, but I wish we had your free speech protections and the respect for the individual that I've seen many times from American culture.
Computers are seized and not returned in this country, just as in yours. You need a lot of money to protect your rights, and even then you usually have to let it go, as a rich friend of mine found out a few years back. It's a disturbing trend.
Because in this system, you need money to have your rights enforced. Does a guy who is upset because of lost work for lack of a computer sound like the kind of guy who can hire a lawyer for that sort of thing? No. Instead, he sounds like most of us, who don't have that option.
Not being argumentative, but unless you or someone on this board can recommend a lawyer admitted to the bar in his state that would take the case on spec, he might be just as out of luck as the rest of us would be.
Also, I was intrigued by this idea of waterless urinals. So I had to check one out for myself. One of our public recreation buildings (well, public if you can pay) is trying to achieve LEED certification. After standing outside the men's bathroom shouting, "Helooooooooo?" for a time, I ventured inside.
These ones were relatively new, granted (probably only half a year old), but they seemed to lack much of a smell at all. The surface didn't feel any differently than regular porcelain, but I didn't touch the inside. Also, the male friend who told me where these were said they were no worse in any way than regular urinals.
I might have even tried it out, but while a parka and long johns don't seem to be all that much of a hinderance to you guys, I didn't want to go home in -18C with wet pants. Not that there are many women on Slashdot, but if anyone has any tips, do let me know.
I think the strangest example of this is the whole notion that we teach our children that they must not touch their genetals, lest they make their hands dirty. But rationally, it's the hands that could make the genetals dirty, and we have soap and water for that.
So I know these Canadians who like to dress up like Klingons. They have trouble every time they try to cross the border, not because of their bat'leths, but because of something they call the Throne of Kahless. Here is a picture:
As you can see, it's one of those contraband Canadian toilets. Well, it's never been used as a toilet, but as a giant punch bowl. And it's been mounted on a block of wood with a plaque. There's even a little roll of "Klingon toilet paper" attached, which is some sandpaper rolled around an empty tube. So it's definitely coming back to Canada after the party.
Try telling that to a customs agent.
Suffice it to say, customs agents may not stop the flow of guns or drugs that goes both ways across our border, but they sure do batprotect us all from high-flow toilets. Whew!
Given this, isn't it a good idea for society to convince people to wash their hands a few times during the day? Who cares when they do it, so long as they do? It has nothing to do with urination, but the built-in alarm clock of the bladder isn't the worst mechanism to remind people to do their periodic hand waching. And very often (at least if you're eating right) urination will be combined with defecation, which does require a hand wash.
And the soap? It's because you have to touch lots of dirty things throughout the day, like that Coke machine.
No worries! Yearly anthologies are considered so prestigious (Well, the ones by Hartwell and Dozois and probably some that aren't coming to mind) that it's allowed. There's always that intro or note that goes along with the story that says, "This story appeared in the March issue of F&SF." So it's promotion. It's also very important come Hugo voting time.
However, if you were to take the story you had published in F&SF or Analog or whatever and put out a collection of your own short stories, or sell it to another magazine, or get published in a theme anthology concurrently, they would likely think very hard about publishing with you again. Of course, you can sell it before the year's out, but it should not appear in print or online.
And so in the case of a well-known years' best anthology, it's only let slide that the one year might be as little as five months. Hartwell's comes out in May, and if your story came out in January of the previous year, that's over 17 months that the story has lain dormant.
It's that way in regular publishing, too. We just put out the second of a series of young adult horror anthologies, and some were reprints that we couldn't put in the first one, even though they weren't bound by the hard rule of contract law. And we'd be pretty miffed if any of them went ahead and sold one of those stories and it was published before a year was up. Unless, of course, the CBC called and said, "Oh, we so love that story, xxxxxxx, and would love to acquire the rights to broadcast a dramatization of it." Because then our sales figures would just about double.
While I'm hugely for the rights of the author (which is why I don't get along so well with the other editors at the annual book publishers' BBQ), this is pretty standard in SF. However, lots of publications don't spell it out in the contract. But whether it says it or not, in SF--and likely in other fiction markets--it is expected that your story not show up anywhere else for one whole year.
It is your glasses. It's called chromatic aberration, and it's a problem in everything from eyeglass to camera to telescope lenses. Some materials in some shapes bend some wavelengths of light more than others.
Just as how blue light gets scattered first to make a blue sky, shorter wavelengths are bent further by your glasses lens. I've noticed this is worse on my high-index lens pair than my mid-index lens pair. So you'll see colour separation around the edges of objects, usually white or light-giving objects, and I'll bet you see purple/blue and yellow on opposite edges.
Well, if the human race wasn't worried about things like the Vogon fleet, why aren't we broadcasting deliberate signals to the rest of the galaxy, anymore?
My point is that a whole lot of people would feel better if there was another cradle of humanity.
Just to clear things up, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas. It's legal in many counties in Nevada, but not in counties that have more than 400,000 people, such as Clark County, in which Las Vegas sits. Here's the statute:
Nevada Revised Statute 244.345.
Dancing halls, escort services, entertainment by referral services and gambling games or devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution.
8. In a county whose population is 400,000 or more, the license board shall not grant any license to a petitioner for the purpose of operating a house of ill fame or repute or any other business employing any person for the purpose of prostitution.
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I agree with you 100%. I lost 50 lbs from low-carb dieting. And I ate more salads than I ever have in my life. But if you stop doing it, you'll gain it all back.
Who are these "people" you're citing? The ISS is a box to hold people. It's low enough to reduce radiation exposure to the soft people-parts inside. I'm glad you think you're smarter than NASA, RKA, ESA, JAXA, and the CSA, but I don't. Thanks for coming out.
I wouldn't really call that "calmly addressing an issue." It seems more like passive-aggressive oscillations.
A measured response would be to calmly and consistently root out cheaters and give them a warning, then monitor and ban their accounts if necessary. Wash, rinse, repeat, and publicize the results. "Today we banned two bot-using cheaters," would be a great way to start a news page, wouldn't it? Especially if there was a headline like that every day.
And given how many bots are in EVE, I don't really know what CCP is doing to stop it, if anything at all.
Absolutely. What anonymous does not understand is that, when a character is portrayed as doing something, the writers are not encouraging it or even condoning it. Sometimes they're asking a question or making a statement about the ugliness of man's potential inhumanity.
You'd think that, in a place like Slashdot, where people yell, "Don't ban my violent video games because they're just commentary on modern life," that everyone would automatically get this.
Therefore, again, the Cylons were in human territory first.
Annual per capita spending on health care, in US dollars:
USA 4,271
Canada 1,939
Life expectancy:
USA 77.85 years
Canada 80.22 years
I'd say universal health care was anything but a "disaster" for us.
Finally, the voice of reason has appeared in this discussion. Rsalvo, you're absolutely right, there are very important reasons to get vaccinated that have nothing to do with cancer. HPV, even if it doesn't result in cancer, is a virus that causes illness and in some cases disfigurement. Even without looking at cancer, it's a serious health care issue.
Though, those 3670 dead mothers and daughters and sisters you pointed to are kind of hard to put out of your head when thinking on this issue and truly are a good reason in and of itself to vaccinate.
It's really interesting to me to see how many men weighed in on the issue of this vaccine. I'm very happy to see how many people care about what could be seen as a "women's issue."
First, a little background. I've received the first two shots in the Gardasil series and am two months away from the third.
Why did I choose to get this vaccine? Not only am I a sexually active woman who fears cancer (my mother died of breast cancer at 37), I'm also concerned because of the pain and suffering I've seen in women who have had genital warts.
Two close friends had to have abnormal cells burned off their cervixes. That's a panful procedure. And in this country, with public health care, the costs of those procedures comes out of the taxpayers' wallets.
And yes, I'm also concerned about the men I've dated and will date in the future. I don't want to be the cause of the pain, suffering, and embarrassment that men endure when they have visible warts on their genitals.
Finally, I don't want to be a burden on an already overburdened health system. Because, when you have a publicly funded health care system, it really is your responsibility to think about the greater good.
So why doesn't everyone get this vaccine? It's $700 Canadian for all three shots. Luckily (even though I make less money than the average man in my city) I have health coverage that covers part of it. Unfortunately, my sister's health plan does not. Will she be able to afford it? Probably not, sad to say.
So, should it be publicly funded? Should it be mandated? Should it be delivered via an opt-out system? Is it reprehensible that it costs so much? I don't have the answers. But it would be nice if it wasn't out of the price range of so many women. At least giving the average person the choice seems like the humane thing to do.
I once had the extreme privilege of having supper with DC Fontana, who said that she believed that all of Hollywood could really use an infusion of new talent into their writing staffs. Unfortunately, I think the same bad writers and other creative people, without a fresh combination of ideas left in their heads, are shuffled from show to show to show and are kept in the fold long after they have outlived their usefulness.
And speaking of fan-created ST, I was really impressed with Star Trek: New Voyages. I think it really captured the essence of what I loved about TOS. The writing and production quality are among the best I've seen in any fan production for any show.
I agree, wholeheartedly. And just because there might not be some "name" with "star power" who happens to be in his twenties who would be a good pick, doesn't mean there isn't a great actor out there who would be the right age and perfect for the part.
But that would require the creative team and the casting director to do some actual work, which seems to be kind of lacking in the creative and production teams from Star Treks of late.
No, no! I'm in Canada, and it's exactly the same crap.
I may love Canada from the bottom of my heart, but I wish we had your free speech protections and the respect for the individual that I've seen many times from American culture.
Computers are seized and not returned in this country, just as in yours. You need a lot of money to protect your rights, and even then you usually have to let it go, as a rich friend of mine found out a few years back. It's a disturbing trend.
Isn't it sad that the best we can all do, as innocent, law-abiding citizens, is bend over and take it when it comes to the police?
And I know that it is the easiest thing to do, from experience with the police, again as a law-abiding citizen reporting a crime.
Why do we put up with it? That's what I want to know.
Because in this system, you need money to have your rights enforced. Does a guy who is upset because of lost work for lack of a computer sound like the kind of guy who can hire a lawyer for that sort of thing? No. Instead, he sounds like most of us, who don't have that option.
Not being argumentative, but unless you or someone on this board can recommend a lawyer admitted to the bar in his state that would take the case on spec, he might be just as out of luck as the rest of us would be.
No, sadly. But I bet there's a way to make it work...
http://www.msmagazine.com/aug99/what.asp
Also, I was intrigued by this idea of waterless urinals. So I had to check one out for myself. One of our public recreation buildings (well, public if you can pay) is trying to achieve LEED certification. After standing outside the men's bathroom shouting, "Helooooooooo?" for a time, I ventured inside.
These ones were relatively new, granted (probably only half a year old), but they seemed to lack much of a smell at all. The surface didn't feel any differently than regular porcelain, but I didn't touch the inside. Also, the male friend who told me where these were said they were no worse in any way than regular urinals.
I might have even tried it out, but while a parka and long johns don't seem to be all that much of a hinderance to you guys, I didn't want to go home in -18C with wet pants. Not that there are many women on Slashdot, but if anyone has any tips, do let me know.
I totally agree with you.
I think the strangest example of this is the whole notion that we teach our children that they must not touch their genetals, lest they make their hands dirty. But rationally, it's the hands that could make the genetals dirty, and we have soap and water for that.
I wonder if that idea ever had a rational basis.
So I know these Canadians who like to dress up like Klingons. They have trouble every time they try to cross the border, not because of their bat'leths, but because of something they call the Throne of Kahless. Here is a picture:
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http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~pconnors/KAGPics//pic12.j
and pictures with descriptions here:
http://www.kagkanada.com/photos.html
As you can see, it's one of those contraband Canadian toilets. Well, it's never been used as a toilet, but as a giant punch bowl. And it's been mounted on a block of wood with a plaque. There's even a little roll of "Klingon toilet paper" attached, which is some sandpaper rolled around an empty tube. So it's definitely coming back to Canada after the party.
Try telling that to a customs agent.
Suffice it to say, customs agents may not stop the flow of guns or drugs that goes both ways across our border, but they sure do batprotect us all from high-flow toilets. Whew!
Given this, isn't it a good idea for society to convince people to wash their hands a few times during the day? Who cares when they do it, so long as they do? It has nothing to do with urination, but the built-in alarm clock of the bladder isn't the worst mechanism to remind people to do their periodic hand waching. And very often (at least if you're eating right) urination will be combined with defecation, which does require a hand wash.
And the soap? It's because you have to touch lots of dirty things throughout the day, like that Coke machine.
:D "Those who dare to dream, dare to do."
:)
Good luck! And remember to submit to the top markets first.
Hmmmm, I wonder if Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show counts towards SFWA qualification...
*Drakkenfyre does a little dreaming of her own*
No worries! Yearly anthologies are considered so prestigious (Well, the ones by Hartwell and Dozois and probably some that aren't coming to mind) that it's allowed. There's always that intro or note that goes along with the story that says, "This story appeared in the March issue of F&SF." So it's promotion. It's also very important come Hugo voting time.
However, if you were to take the story you had published in F&SF or Analog or whatever and put out a collection of your own short stories, or sell it to another magazine, or get published in a theme anthology concurrently, they would likely think very hard about publishing with you again. Of course, you can sell it before the year's out, but it should not appear in print or online.
And so in the case of a well-known years' best anthology, it's only let slide that the one year might be as little as five months. Hartwell's comes out in May, and if your story came out in January of the previous year, that's over 17 months that the story has lain dormant.
It's that way in regular publishing, too. We just put out the second of a series of young adult horror anthologies, and some were reprints that we couldn't put in the first one, even though they weren't bound by the hard rule of contract law. And we'd be pretty miffed if any of them went ahead and sold one of those stories and it was published before a year was up. Unless, of course, the CBC called and said, "Oh, we so love that story, xxxxxxx, and would love to acquire the rights to broadcast a dramatization of it." Because then our sales figures would just about double.
I can dream, can't I?
While I'm hugely for the rights of the author (which is why I don't get along so well with the other editors at the annual book publishers' BBQ), this is pretty standard in SF. However, lots of publications don't spell it out in the contract. But whether it says it or not, in SF--and likely in other fiction markets--it is expected that your story not show up anywhere else for one whole year.
Just as how blue light gets scattered first to make a blue sky, shorter wavelengths are bent further by your glasses lens. I've noticed this is worse on my high-index lens pair than my mid-index lens pair. So you'll see colour separation around the edges of objects, usually white or light-giving objects, and I'll bet you see purple/blue and yellow on opposite edges.
So don't worry, your eyes are fine. You can read more about CA at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
My point is that a whole lot of people would feel better if there was another cradle of humanity.
Well, for some "actors" and "actresses," porn is their work.
Thanks!
Nevada Revised Statute 244.345.
Dancing halls, escort services, entertainment by referral services and gambling games or devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution.
8. In a county whose population is 400,000 or more, the license board shall not grant any license to a petitioner for the purpose of operating a house of ill fame or repute or any other business employing any person for the purpose of prostitution.