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From: jmfbahciv on 26 Feb 2010 08:55 Cheryl wrote: > jmfbahciv wrote: >> Cheryl wrote: >>> jmfbahciv wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>> What is wrong is forcing the entire populace to go through >>>> a jetlag twice a year. Their driving is more dangerous >>>> and productivity falls until each person has adjusted his/her >>>> internal time clock. Congress has been passing laws >>>> about truckers getting enough sleep. OTOH, they pass clock >>>> resetting laws which causes everybody to not get enough sleep. >>>> What's wrong is that it's dangerous and unhealthy. >>> >>> What's stopping people from going to bed an hour earlier that night? >> >> We're talking about resetting the biological cycle. People, essentially >> do go to bed an hour earlier (or later) depending on the clock switch. >> That changes the biology. >> >>> >>> Anyway, that only works for one direction. The other time, everyone >>> gets an extra hour of sleep, and therefore should be more rested and >>> less likely to have accidents. >>> >> >> Wrong. An hour extra, from the usual habit, creates a hangover. >> >> /BAH > > I've never noticed an hour either way making much difference. I must > have an adjustable biological cycle. > You're lucky. A plane flight from one side of a time zone, west, to the other, affected me. Times were the same but the sunlight was different. /BAH
From: Adam Funk on 26 Feb 2010 08:44 On 2010-02-25, Trond Engen wrote: > Evan Kirshenbaum: > >> R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> writes: >> >>> BrE filted: >>> >>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:04:21 GMT, the Omrud >>>> <usenet.omrud(a)gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What happens when the Messiah does arrive? Is there some sort of >>>>> central switch which can be pushed to update all the rabbis? >>>> >>>> They will all be gathered together in the Promised Land. Jesus of >>>> Nazareth will arrive and will address them: "Right then, let just >>>> try again. Pay careful attention...". >>> >>> Oh great...the Prince of Peace brought PowerPoint slides....r >> >> And the Church will say "Damn! We'd add them to the canon, but we >> finalized it 1,700 years ago." > > "... and those old Canon projectors can't take power point slides." Oh, that's good. -- I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it. Networked software, especially, requires frequent updates and maintenance, all of which gets in the way of doing routine work. (Stoll 1995)
From: jmfbahciv on 26 Feb 2010 09:02 PaulJK wrote: > Mike Barnes wrote: >> PaulJK <paul.kriha(a)paradise.net.nz>: >>> Brian M. Scott wrote: >>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:19:21 +1300, PaulJK >>>> >>>>> I would prefer if every 24 hour day was made longer by one >>>>> hour, i.e. 25 hours long. [...] >>>> I'm not sure that 25 hours would be quite long enough. >>> I agree, it wouldn't. I just didn't want to sound like some kind >>> of an extremist. 28 was mentioned by some other posters. >>> That would do me rather well. Yes, 28, that would be perfect. >> Four extra hours in a day, but about twelve fewer years in a life. Are >> you sure? > > When I freewheel I still need only 7-8 hour sleep. > > I am sure. In 20 active hours/day I could accomplish 25% more > in my life. Or enjoy things I like doing for 25% longer. I wouldn't > care about the number of years, if I could have 25% more > awake time in life. I used to solve my really pesky problems by dreaming the solution, or workaround. Sleeping is useful. /BAH
From: Cheryl on 26 Feb 2010 08:57 jmfbahciv wrote: > Cheryl wrote: >> jmfbahciv wrote: >>> Cheryl wrote: >>>> jmfbahciv wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> What is wrong is forcing the entire populace to go through >>>>> a jetlag twice a year. Their driving is more dangerous >>>>> and productivity falls until each person has adjusted his/her >>>>> internal time clock. Congress has been passing laws >>>>> about truckers getting enough sleep. OTOH, they pass clock >>>>> resetting laws which causes everybody to not get enough sleep. >>>>> What's wrong is that it's dangerous and unhealthy. >>>> >>>> What's stopping people from going to bed an hour earlier that night? >>> >>> We're talking about resetting the biological cycle. People, essentially >>> do go to bed an hour earlier (or later) depending on the clock switch. >>> That changes the biology. >>> >>>> >>>> Anyway, that only works for one direction. The other time, everyone >>>> gets an extra hour of sleep, and therefore should be more rested and >>>> less likely to have accidents. >>>> >>> >>> Wrong. An hour extra, from the usual habit, creates a hangover. >>> >>> /BAH >> >> I've never noticed an hour either way making much difference. I must >> have an adjustable biological cycle. >> > You're lucky. A plane flight from one side of a time zone, west, > to the other, affected me. Times were the same but the sunlight > was different. > > /BAH I notice the change going, say from North America to Europe, or from one end of Canada to another, but recover in a day or so. I stay up as close to my natural bedtime in the new time zone as possible, get a good nights sleep, and I'm functioning more or less normally. Going the other way - east to west - is dead easy for me. All I really notice is the tiredness natural from being shut up in a noisy shaking tube for hours on end. I don't even notice a single hour's change, and certainly nothing less than that. Cheryl -- Cheryl
From: Peter T. Daniels on 26 Feb 2010 09:25
On Feb 25, 8:44 pm, Robert Bannister <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > On Feb 23, 8:12 pm, Robert Bannister <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > >> Adam Funk wrote: > >>> On 2010-02-23, Ant nio Marques wrote: > >>>> "Roman Catholic" ISN'T AN OFFICIAL SELF-DESIGNATION. ANYWHERE. > >>> Are you going to write to all the churches in the UK with "St ____'s > >>> Roman Catholic Church" or "St ____'s R. C. Church" on their signs, > >>> newsletters, websites, etc., to tell them that they are wrong? (I > >>> think this is common in much of the USA too.) > >> I won't try to claim such signs don't exist, but I don't remember ever > >> seeing one. The only way I can tell a church is RC is by the > >> architecture and usually by the name (saint I've never heard of or > >> long-winded way of saying Mary). > > > Do you only visit villages so small that they have only one church, or > > so homogeneous that they only have a sprinkling of Protestant churches? > > I don't see what you are getting at. The only churches I notice that > actually stipulate their denomination on their own signs are the ones > that are neither Anglican nor Catholic. The latter appear to assume that > anyone interested will know, and usually, they are right. As I said > above, I won't try to claim that no "Roman Catholic" or "Church of > England" signs exist - just that I haven't noticed them in the same way > I notice Lutheran or whatever. It's the Episcopalians who put up signs at the intersections for blocks around guiding passersby to their church -- with, of course, their familiar insignia. Do try to remember that we have no state religion -- there is no such thing as an "unmarked" (in the technical linguistic sense) church here. |