I don't quite get the 1950s western movie, but I remember a military comedy of the 80s where the narrator said something along the lines of "of course none of the assembled NATO officers wanted to abandon his own time zone in favor of someone else's, for national pride reasons. Finally they agreed on an average. According to it, on this sunny morning it was exactly midnight".
For your info, Europe has DST too. At least for now, we're one step further, we're actually trying to get rid of it. Chances are good that this was the last time we had to torture our clocks and our biorhythm.
It's pretty much a given that screwing with the time twice a year is over. What people are divided about is whether to adopt permanent DST or permanent normal time.
They all belong into the same box. The one where a consultant gets a lot of money to teach you something that makes you more productive if you don't use it.
As long as it's not a government mandated monopoly, you can ALWAYS go ahead and just offer the service yourself.
And if the problem is that there's only enough of a market for a single provider, I'd rather have a government monopoly where I, along with the rest of my fellow constituents, have a say in what can and cannot be done, let alone the checks that laws and constitution offer that I can not only rely on but also have courts ensure that they be heeded, than a corporate monopoly where all I can actually do is move away because I have ZERO say what they can and cannot do, and also have zero legal recourse against.
If Comcast decides that it does not transport, say, "hate speech" (and THEY get to define what "hate speech" is) you have exactly NO legal ground to stand on when trying to get them to stop that. They are NOT bound by the first amendment, they are NOT a government entity.
There are simpler constructs for that, venture capitalism for example. There is no reason the patents have to change hands if you just want to prop up a company 'til they can reap the fruits from those patents.
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Umm... did someone audit those parts of modern processors?
I don't quite get the 1950s western movie, but I remember a military comedy of the 80s where the narrator said something along the lines of "of course none of the assembled NATO officers wanted to abandon his own time zone in favor of someone else's, for national pride reasons. Finally they agreed on an average. According to it, on this sunny morning it was exactly midnight".
Booooooring!
Nah. Still jetlaggy from that DST-change.
Noon is when the sun is above me. If that clock shows 1200, great, if not, your clock is wrong.
Lemme guess: You live in California? Florida? Maybe Arizona?
Winter has ridiculous weather, but noon is at 1200, as it should be.
Yes, but unlike you, we learned our lesson.
Real men shove beans up their nostrils then ask their friend for a good punch to the sniffer.
A sadist is an assembler programmer that doesn't comment his code.
A masochist is someone who tries to debug his 2 year old uncommented assembler code instead of writing it new.
That's what gets on my tits every time and what keeps me from going to the likes of Starbucks: "What flavor do you want for your coffee?"
COFFEE! That's why I order one!
I am honestly expecting them to have coffee syrup for flavoring.
Sure, but since when has it been a problem to please the 1%?
Doesn't matter. We're just not dumb enough to enter ridiculous wars. Anything cheap should do.
Why? UTC does not change.
I guess that means it doesn't matter to most of the people and those that do care want to get rid of the bullshit.
I solved the problem by finding a job that's not sensitive to me being an hour late during the ridiculous times in Summer.
And the later sunrises in the morning in Winter? How much do you like to drive to work in pitch black darkness?
You forgot to mention the part where we're stupid enough to actually buy that flying pieces of scrap metal from you.
For your info, Europe has DST too. At least for now, we're one step further, we're actually trying to get rid of it. Chances are good that this was the last time we had to torture our clocks and our biorhythm.
It's pretty much a given that screwing with the time twice a year is over. What people are divided about is whether to adopt permanent DST or permanent normal time.
They all belong into the same box. The one where a consultant gets a lot of money to teach you something that makes you more productive if you don't use it.
*sniff*
Thank you.
As long as it's not a government mandated monopoly, you can ALWAYS go ahead and just offer the service yourself.
And if the problem is that there's only enough of a market for a single provider, I'd rather have a government monopoly where I, along with the rest of my fellow constituents, have a say in what can and cannot be done, let alone the checks that laws and constitution offer that I can not only rely on but also have courts ensure that they be heeded, than a corporate monopoly where all I can actually do is move away because I have ZERO say what they can and cannot do, and also have zero legal recourse against.
If Comcast decides that it does not transport, say, "hate speech" (and THEY get to define what "hate speech" is) you have exactly NO legal ground to stand on when trying to get them to stop that. They are NOT bound by the first amendment, they are NOT a government entity.
I agree.
Like it was necessary to mention that something like that comes out of Cali.
That's like saying some ridiculous ruling about patent law came out of Texas. It simply goes without saying.
That was more a pick on an overly simplifying headline than Apple.
That AC ad-hominem above, yes, that's a troll.
There are simpler constructs for that, venture capitalism for example. There is no reason the patents have to change hands if you just want to prop up a company 'til they can reap the fruits from those patents.
Really?
Care to share? I didn't even know I have an account.