Not sure about the calendar, but the time of day adjustment definitely doesn't make sense to me. Timezone conversion is a problem, but night/day not matching local time is another problem.
235 lunar months happens to be very close to 19 solar years (a pattern known as the Metonic cycle) 19 * 12 = 228, 7 months are added to reach 235, in years 3,6,8,11,14,17 and 19 to be particular. Each month is 29 or 30 days, including the leap month.
The Gregorian calendar has a leap day, the Hebrew calendar has a leap month, the calendar in TFA is somewhere inbetween with a leap week. Perhaps various existing calendar systems can provide lessons on how to implement the system proposed in TFA.
I see some foreign beers in 11.2oz bottles, and that number only makes sense as the customary equivalent of a third of a liter, with the label reworded for the US market.
I'd say this also goes for other aspects of a system - while the audiophile stuff is pointless or nearly so, it still helps to avoid the bottom of the barrel. hardware, probably also resolution of the audio file formats
I can see how the early Christians appropriated the timing/rituals for marketing purposes, but perhaps it was also a way to dodge persecutors that would be occupied with their own celebrations? (think of Romans busy with drunken orgies, perhaps)
reminds me of when a high school history teacher discussed the causes of WWI in high-school terms. One cause of WWI was German imperial ambitions compared to the established bigshot colonial powers.
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wow, a reason to like GoDaddy even less I was already skeptical of a company that feels the need to resort to crass sex-appeal ad blitzes
I learned quickly about how bloated automatic HTML generators are. I handwrite the HTML now, but there are a few pages on the site that were wysiwiyg'ed - the whole site could sorely use an update, really.
Size also benefits from not using scripting or using it minimally.
I have a processor of similar speed(2.93 GHz), and Civilization II sorta does that to me - when civ2.exe is running, Task Manager shows a lot of CPU use and the fan starts running bigtime.
mine doesn't autoshutdown, so maybe my situation isn't as bad as yours. but I still worry about damaging the equipment, and the sound competes with/adds to the sound of background music
it does have separate.jpg/.gif/.txt files for the game resources perhaps this is happening because Civilization II works through DOS rather than being native Windows
I had figured the unit of measurement was the same: the state committing crimes against the 1 innocent, versus crimes committed by the 10 guilty That works under multiple theories of criminal justice: what they're deterred from doing, what they don't do after being rehabilitated, and/or what they are unable to do while imprisoned.
Mozilla does this with Firefox: the code is under an open source license for copyright purposes, but the logo/name are trademarked. also, many tech standards aren't as cheap or permissive to use, but standards compliance is enforced partially via trademark on the name/logo
yes, that idea reminded me of the timers on crosswalks. However, with crosswalks, you have more legal (IANAL) and practical latitude to "run the red":
if it's about to change, has just changed, there's nobody about to turn in front of you in particular walk fast, run, ride a bicycle (timer geared for slow walkers?) perhaps cross halfway while that half's clear, stand in a safe spot in the middle, then finish when the second half's clear (rather than having to wait for both halves to be clear)
some of this also works when not crossing at a crosswalk - down the road a bit can have less traffic, and sometimes the crosswalks are out of your way
even without turns as an issue, sometimes you don't have enough time to break smoothly, but you don't have enough time to run the yellow either. depends on where you are when the light changes that distance seems like it would be different depending on the yellow light timing, but the factor would still be there.
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that sounds like a translation of Ecclesiastes 1:9 - I suppose it's fitting that the source for that phrase is a book written over 2000 years ago.
Not sure about the calendar, but the time of day adjustment definitely doesn't make sense to me.
Timezone conversion is a problem, but night/day not matching local time is another problem.
235 lunar months happens to be very close to 19 solar years (a pattern known as the Metonic cycle)
19 * 12 = 228, 7 months are added to reach 235, in years 3,6,8,11,14,17 and 19 to be particular.
Each month is 29 or 30 days, including the leap month.
Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle
The Gregorian calendar has a leap day, the Hebrew calendar has a leap month, the calendar in TFA is somewhere inbetween with a leap week.
Perhaps various existing calendar systems can provide lessons on how to implement the system proposed in TFA.
I see some foreign beers in 11.2oz bottles, and that number only makes sense as the customary equivalent of a third of a liter, with the label reworded for the US market.
Yes, the concept is the same, with The Onion providing a full article instead of a one-liner.
thanks for the link to the coffee article.
Ironically, Romney's centrist/compromise positions/actions might be a liability with extremist primary voters
Yeah, in the one Republican candidate debate I watched, Jon Huntsman (and Ron Paul!) seemed like the relatively sane ones
-slaps forehead while emitting an annoyed grunt-
Eastern Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OST-Arbeiter
indeed, many Nazi war crimes related to forced labor.
I'd say this also goes for other aspects of a system - while the audiophile stuff is pointless or nearly so, it still helps to avoid the bottom of the barrel.
hardware, probably also resolution of the audio file formats
what's "ISR" in this context?
I can see how the early Christians appropriated the timing/rituals for marketing purposes, but perhaps it was also a way to dodge persecutors that would be occupied with their own celebrations? (think of Romans busy with drunken orgies, perhaps)
+1 Funny
also reminded of how Dad suggests putting Scotch out for Santa Clause instead of the milk.
I had heard of the "A Taste of Armageddon" message as follows: that making a war too clean/distant allows it to perpetuate (or something like that)
reminds me of when a high school history teacher discussed the causes of WWI in high-school terms.
One cause of WWI was German imperial ambitions compared to the established bigshot colonial powers.
wow, a reason to like GoDaddy even less
I was already skeptical of a company that feels the need to resort to crass sex-appeal ad blitzes
I learned quickly about how bloated automatic HTML generators are.
I handwrite the HTML now, but there are a few pages on the site that were wysiwiyg'ed - the whole site could sorely use an update, really.
Size also benefits from not using scripting or using it minimally.
I have a processor of similar speed(2.93 GHz), and Civilization II sorta does that to me - when civ2.exe is running, Task Manager shows a lot of CPU use and the fan starts running bigtime.
mine doesn't autoshutdown, so maybe my situation isn't as bad as yours. but I still worry about damaging the equipment, and the sound competes with/adds to the sound of background music
it does have separate .jpg/.gif/.txt files for the game resources
perhaps this is happening because Civilization II works through DOS rather than being native Windows
I had figured the unit of measurement was the same: the state committing crimes against the 1 innocent, versus crimes committed by the 10 guilty
That works under multiple theories of criminal justice: what they're deterred from doing, what they don't do after being rehabilitated, and/or what they are unable to do while imprisoned.
I am shocked, absolutely shocked to learn that is unauthorized copying going on with this filesharing mechanism
Mozilla does this with Firefox: the code is under an open source license for copyright purposes, but the logo/name are trademarked.
also, many tech standards aren't as cheap or permissive to use, but standards compliance is enforced partially via trademark on the name/logo
so it sounds like a properly set up experiment, then.
so recognizing that 10 > 1 makes someone a Nazi? more like a utilitarian
yes, that idea reminded me of the timers on crosswalks.
However, with crosswalks, you have more legal (IANAL) and practical latitude to "run the red":
if it's about to change, has just changed, there's nobody about to turn in front of you in particular
walk fast, run, ride a bicycle (timer geared for slow walkers?)
perhaps cross halfway while that half's clear, stand in a safe spot in the middle, then finish when the second half's clear (rather than having to wait for both halves to be clear)
some of this also works when not crossing at a crosswalk - down the road a bit can have less traffic, and sometimes the crosswalks are out of your way
even without turns as an issue, sometimes you don't have enough time to break smoothly, but you don't have enough time to run the yellow either. depends on where you are when the light changes
that distance seems like it would be different depending on the yellow light timing, but the factor would still be there.