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« on: June 15, 2008, 06:45:44 PM » |
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To any fathers on here (bloop, dgp), hope you had a good Father's Day. To me, Happy Birthday.  |
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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2008, 07:01:52 PM » |
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Happy birthday Wanderer!  |
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Vlad!
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2008, 07:08:47 PM » |
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Dude, for some reason I thought you were closer to fogeyhood than you are. Anyway, congratulations on successfully not dying for another year.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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Aaron
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2008, 07:09:30 PM » |
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Dude, for some reason I thought you were closer to fogeyhood than you are. Anyway, congratulations on successfully not dying for another year.
heh. Nope. I just act like a crotchety old man at times and have older musical preferences. |
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2008, 07:38:24 PM » |
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happy birthday!  |
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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2008, 08:55:20 PM » |
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Happy Birthday Wanderer!
Happy Fathers' Day to all to whom that may apply!
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2008, 09:52:02 PM » |
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Happy Birthday and Happy Fathers' Day to their respective parties!
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 11:02:20 PM » |
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It's still Sunday CDT so...
Happy Birthday, Wanderer!
Happy Fathers Day! (to all those for whom it may apply)
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- Phil V.  My current pub songs: Andrew Peterson: "The Reckoning (How Long)" (from Counting Stars) Jars of Clay: "Out of My Hands" (from an upcoming release) The Mynabirds: "Numbers Don't Lie" (from What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood) |
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2008, 11:25:18 PM » |
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I was really confused.. then I remembered that you American people are a bit funny on your holidays. It isn't Fathers Day till like September here.
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« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2008, 11:35:05 PM » |
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Funny you mention that.. Actually it doesn't. And the US is really really really stupid when it comes to all systems of measurement. For example, you guys still use Imperial measurements, which make NO sense, while the rest of the world uses Metric. Now, in the Metric system, everything is based on ten, just like the dollar but for weight, length, volume, mass, temperature, everything! Sensible, no? And the date too.. why would you put the month first? Month, Day, Year is just illogical. *sigh* Americans are funny creatures. Oh yeah, Happy Birthday man |
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« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2008, 06:48:43 AM » |
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Hope you had a good birthday. My Father's Day was spent driving home from Ohio.
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« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2008, 10:21:52 AM » |
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Funny you mention that..
Actually it doesn't. You might want to have your sarcasm detector looked at. It seems to be malfunctioning. |
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« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2008, 01:39:14 PM » |
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And the date too.. why would you put the month first? Month, Day, Year is just illogical.
Why is that illogical? |
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« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2008, 01:49:24 PM » |
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Why is that illogical?
Because it is in neither ascending or descending order in terms of magnitude. dd mm yyyy or yyyy mm dd makes more sense from a logic perspective. |
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« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2008, 02:52:47 PM » |
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Because it is in neither ascending or descending order in terms of magnitude. dd mm yyyy or yyyy mm dd makes more sense from a logic perspective.
Meh, I think that any which way makes equal sense. I think it's mainly just whatever you're used to. Kind of like how in some languages (Spanish, e.g.), adjectives always follow the noun they're describing, while in other languages (German or English, e.g.) the adjectives generally precede the noun they describe. To a Spaniard, it would seem illogical to describe an object you've not yet identified, while to a German, it seems illogical to not identify which/what type the object is before stating the object itself (The dog old, brown, hairy, flea-ridden, Harry's). Neither one is wrong; both have their flaws and advantages. The date order thing is similar, it seems to me. It makes equal sense to me to identify the month first (the broader object - kind of like a noun first) and then the specific date (kind of like the modifier) as it does the other way around. |
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Vlad!
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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2008, 04:11:16 PM » |
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I find that having yyyy mm dd makes it easier to scan through a column of dates (and to sort them using a computer).
Since so many people write the dates in different ways, I generally write them as 16 June 2008, since then it's unambiguous about what each element means. I work with so many people from other countries that when I see something like 10/5/2008, I have to rely on context to determine whether that's October fifth or May tenth.
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