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Comment Re:So many options... (Score 1) 267

This is the first I'm hearing that photons created with technology are functionally different from naturally produced photons.

Kids still end up in the dark when the days get short.

My solution is not the same. You seem to have missed the 'fixed' concept. As in 'no Daylight Saving adjustments'.

Outside workers will benefit more from dropping the adjustment ' they'd keep daylight in the middle of their work day instead of having it shifted towards evening.

Comment So many options... (Score 1) 267

The time change induces stress and literally kills people. Not changing time might make northerners depressed from lack of morning light...

You know what? We have artificial lighting and spend most of our time indoors anyway. Encourage broad spectrum home and office lighting and use UTC with a fixed local longitudinal adjustment.

Comment Re:Coyote vs Acme (Score 1) 13

I was not disappointed, but neither was I impressed.

They did a competent job of trotting out the nostalgia bits. I would even go so far as to say they did a better job of mixing cartoon physics with the real world than Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Space Jam. It felt like a real world movie with toons in it rather than a cartoon with real people in it.

Having said that, I had nobody to root for so it didn't engage me. The story did a poor job of making me care.

Comment Re:As a DOOM fan and a DBA (Score 1) 23

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't believe SQL includes client data rendering. At least not any SQL implementation I've ever worked with. There's always a client that has to interpret SQL data and convert it into a rendered frame as well as send user input back to SQL as a query.

That would seem to be enough of a limitation to 'Doom on SQL' to make the total project... doomed from the start. It remains an interesting exercise in getting SQL to do the rest of it. As long as the code to do so is elegant, it doesn't really matter how Rube Goldberg it gets.

In fact, I might even be more impressed as the SQL gets more convoluted.

Comment Re:First Amendment (Score 2) 131

Or, more to the point, bribery of public officials.

Or blatant lying in advertisements, for that matter. Or shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. And yes, as you say, there's plenty of precedent on restricting politicians and various government officials from unduly enriching themselves using the power and/or influence of their position. There's in fact tons of well-established legal precedents where public well-being preempts free speech rights. Anyone making this argument in this fashion isn't doing it in good faith.

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