Hrm... I dose myself with UV-B twice weekly to treat a skin disorder. This is, of course, done under medical supervision, which I would wager the UV exposure in order to generate vitamin D for a spaceship/spacestation crew would also have to be.
As for safe levels of UV skin exposure, the problem as I understand it is more from natural sunlight with its UV-B component than from tanning salons with its pure UV-A light. I don't know whether it is UV-A or UV-B that triggers the vitamin D creation in the skin, but that should be easy enough to research.
Oh, and you don't get a tan from UV-B, so over-exposure to that will have you ending up pale with melanoma - the best of both worlds!:)
Good thing you're moderated funny, because that's some of the worst paranoia I've seen in a while. F-16s over Manhattan and "no guarantee they are ours"?
It is, but it sure casts doubts about the Judges impartiality when he was the one granting the search warrant in the Bahnhof raid (which was widely commented on as being unconstitutional) and now is the one who presided over this case.
Ah. Thought that might have been what you meant. It's hard to know for sure whether the American "Commie" means only "Soviet Communist" or just "Socialist" in general.
Soviet-style Communism wasn't that great of a deal, really, but there's much to be said for a more socialist way of looking at running a state. See e.g. the European socialist-democratic states.
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
Huh. And here I thought you threw trash on the ground to help decrease entropy in the universe.
I mean, when the guys they hire to pick it up picks it up, entropy decreases, right?
C'mon people, let's stop entropy now!
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Jennifer Morgue is, sadly, not nearly as good as The Atrocity Archives - it feels a bit too much like a literary experiment in a safe setting (of a well-received preceding book) than a sequel.
Then again, I read it from cover to cover, so it's not bad per se.
In your eyes. In mine, they both look like the rear end of a dump truck. I choose my UI for how easy it is to work with, not how easy it is to look at.
But then you end up with an AI that wins all the time
And we don't want that. We want an AI that wins some of the time, and that is beatable. That is, it should present us with a challenge, but the challenge can't be too great because then the game will be no fun.
I've been playing these kinds of games with friends since I was a wee lad, but I don't know how or why we came up with it. So could you enlighten me if it's a reference to something I might have seen or heard?
(game used to be played like this: move a piece of something on a table and go "haha! I got you now!". Other player(s) ponder situation and counters with "aah, so you're trying the Mandelburg reverse are you? But you're not counting the fact that in the 1939 Southafrican championships Elwood didn't push using the Bantam-Jones triple hedge maneouver. I'll counter your obvious ploy with THIS move, which you should know is allowed under the 1910 Abridged Five-star rules. So there!" and moves a something (or not). And so it goes until someone concedes the victory at great verbal length.)
Sorry about replying to myself, but I thought a video of the construction might alleviate Spazmanias fear of hoaxes: mms://stream.bahnhof.net/bahnhof/tv8ompionen.wmv (sound in Swedish).
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Well played, Sir, well played indeed.
Now do you have any suggestions for drying coffee out of a keyboard?
Hrm... I dose myself with UV-B twice weekly to treat a skin disorder. This is, of course, done under medical supervision, which I would wager the UV exposure in order to generate vitamin D for a spaceship/spacestation crew would also have to be.
As for safe levels of UV skin exposure, the problem as I understand it is more from natural sunlight with its UV-B component than from tanning salons with its pure UV-A light. I don't know whether it is UV-A or UV-B that triggers the vitamin D creation in the skin, but that should be easy enough to research.
Oh, and you don't get a tan from UV-B, so over-exposure to that will have you ending up pale with melanoma - the best of both worlds! :)
You'd be better off asking the Russians for rocketry help, they're the experts these days.
"dropping" means reducing velocity, which requires fuel. Remember, there's no (or next to no) drag up there at 350 miles altitude.
Also compounding the problem is that the ISS is in another orbit, so they would have to manuever to get into that orbit, again requiring fuel.
All in all, "dropping" and matching the orbit of the ISS is out of the question on account of them having too little fuel to do it.
Orbital mechanics, my friend - it's not like driving on the highway :)
I'd say that their real-life experience with suspicious jetliners has been distinctly negative to-date.
Huh.
I'd wager they've seen jetliners going into and out from, say, Newark each and every day, every hour, hell, every minute almost.
Good thing you're moderated funny, because that's some of the worst paranoia I've seen in a while. F-16s over Manhattan and "no guarantee they are ours"?
Whose would it be?
It is, but it sure casts doubts about the Judges impartiality when he was the one granting the search warrant in the Bahnhof raid (which was widely commented on as being unconstitutional) and now is the one who presided over this case.
Ah. Thought that might have been what you meant. It's hard to know for sure whether the American "Commie" means only "Soviet Communist" or just "Socialist" in general.
Soviet-style Communism wasn't that great of a deal, really, but there's much to be said for a more socialist way of looking at running a state. See e.g. the European socialist-democratic states.
Eh, what now? Could you expand on this, since it seems like a very odd thing to say?
In the immortal words of Woody Guthrie:
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of
Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and
anybody caught singin it without our permission,
will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't
give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing
to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted
to do."
A true American Hero.
I think you got the order reversed there, it seems to be
1) Trying to protect your interest, and
2) Help out, (if it's not in opposition to #1).
Huh. And here I thought you threw trash on the ground to help decrease entropy in the universe.
I mean, when the guys they hire to pick it up picks it up, entropy decreases, right?
C'mon people, let's stop entropy now!
Jennifer Morgue is, sadly, not nearly as good as The Atrocity Archives - it feels a bit too much like a literary experiment in a safe setting (of a well-received preceding book) than a sequel.
Then again, I read it from cover to cover, so it's not bad per se.
OTOH, there's one current bid up to over $15 million right now.
That's no bid, that's what he's asking for it.
And you never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! That's almost as big a blunder as getting involved in a land war in Asia!
Good save there, but wasn't it Betelgeuse? :)
KDE 4.1 makes Vista look like an old Buick
In your eyes. In mine, they both look like the rear end of a dump truck. I choose my UI for how easy it is to work with, not how easy it is to look at.
Hastur?
But then you end up with an AI that wins all the time
And we don't want that. We want an AI that wins some of the time, and that is beatable. That is, it should present us with a challenge, but the challenge can't be too great because then the game will be no fun.
So, we only want a smart-enough AI, not a god AI.
In conclusion: the human race is doomed. (why do all my Slashdot posts seem to end with this conclusion?)
Because it's the truth.
44% for your elected officials and 49% for the average schmuck? I scored 73% (24/33) and I'm Swedish...
Seriously, you might want to consider having a long hard look at your educational system... Jeez.
I love you :)
I've been playing these kinds of games with friends since I was a wee lad, but I don't know how or why we came up with it. So could you enlighten me if it's a reference to something I might have seen or heard?
(game used to be played like this: move a piece of something on a table and go "haha! I got you now!". Other player(s) ponder situation and counters with "aah, so you're trying the Mandelburg reverse are you? But you're not counting the fact that in the 1939 Southafrican championships Elwood didn't push using the Bantam-Jones triple hedge maneouver. I'll counter your obvious ploy with THIS move, which you should know is allowed under the 1910 Abridged Five-star rules. So there!" and moves a something (or not). And so it goes until someone concedes the victory at great verbal length.)
Sorry about replying to myself, but I thought a video of the construction might alleviate Spazmanias fear of hoaxes:
mms://stream.bahnhof.net/bahnhof/tv8ompionen.wmv (sound in Swedish).
Oh it's real. I used to walk by it every day to and from work when they were building it.
Link to the email conversation in question: http://media.techflash.com/documents/intelvictory.pdf (pdf)