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Obviously the early calendar makers were VB fans.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have tried to ask believers if they think Jesus was born in year 1 BC or 1 AD. It sure would have been nice if there had been a year 0 for him to be born in!
As a maths inclined person, I have problems with accepting that years are not numbered by a dense sequence of integral numbers. You are probably aware that astronomers insist on a year 0, so before year 1, they disagree with the churches (Astronomical year numbering - Wikipedia[^]).
In our office building, we have a similar problem: The elevator goes from floor 1 to floor -1 with no intermediate floor 0. To ease our mathematical minds, we have agreed that there is a floor zero, but it is virtual. For the elevator, being a real world object, it is not possible to stop at a virtual entity, so it goes directly past floor 0. (With floor 0 being virtual, it also goes by virtual time; that is why we don't notice that we are passing it on the travel time from floor 1 to -1.)
I am not sure a year 0 would have changed anything. If you ask an average person to list the ten first whole numbers, he will start at "one, two, three ... ten"; he wouldn't go from zero to nine.
Funny enough: We count age from base zero, while (assuming that I have not been lied to), in e.g. Korean culture, age is counted from base 1: Your first year, you are 1 (lunar) year old. When you have lived for 12 moons, you turn 2 years old; you are in your second year. If you as an Korean about his age, not only must he multiply by the lunar/solar year fraction, but also correct for the off-by-one base. If we had considered our year number to represent the age of Jesus - 1 AD is a year after he was born, the year he was one years old, then he would have completed 100 years at year 100 (provided that he had followed in the tracks of guys like Adam and Moses, living for a few hundred years - he didn't, but that doesn't affect the principle). If you turn 100, we celebarte your anniversary when your age turns from 99 to 100, not when it turns from 100 to 101.
A common joke is how to distinguish between a computer amateur and a computer pro: The amateur considers 256 a round number. The pro consider 255 a round number, because he is counting from base zero.
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That's ridiculous! How else are you supposed to test whether your eyesight's OK? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Anyone who drives slower than me needs to get the pickle out, and anyone who drives faster than me is a maniac!
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problem is they let kids drive way too early, grannies drive far too long
and every second vehicle is the size of a bus despite rarely carrying more then 3 people.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Quote: despite rarely carrying more then 3 people.
Make that "...more than 1 person" and you have the US standard of traffic.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Plus, the ones on either side are elephanting fools 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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You've just run into (or is it over?) the difference between private enterprise and the government. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In the interest of balance, can you justify those charges?
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The last time I checked, in the UK it's the government who has to justify the charges. I'm pretty certain this applies even in Wales. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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This lounge is a very colourful place, I haven`t posted here anything since I have been around but time spent here is definitely not wasted.
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Hear hear 
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fearless_ wrote: time spent here is definitely not wasted
I know of at least one member who spends time on here while wasted
I think one of his foul-mouthed wasted rants finally got him banned though 
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I don`t always step into to check the topics and comments but it`s always fun to watch the topics that show up on the main page.
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fearless_ wrote: time spent here is definitely not wasted
I guess we all come here for different reasons.
The Daily News and Lounge are part of my morning routine. I also visit when switching tasks or when I'm stumped and need to step away from a problem. If that doesn't work, then it's off to the woodshed.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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it`s a reasonable place for everyone work friendly , family friendly, what else could you ask for.
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The Soapbox was more colourful. But it is gone.
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Reminds me of one case mentioned in the classic book by David A. Ricks: Big business blunders - Mistakes in International Marketing (the exact title varies slightly with the editions of the book): One airline company wanted to market their VIP service internationally, referring to one service as their "Rendevouz Lounge". They were not aware that in some Latin American countries, a Rendevouz Lounge is where you go to find a prostitute.
(I haven't read that book for years. I really should dig it up and re-read it; I rememer it as a highly recommendable text!)
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Is that price right? £650! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is that price right?
It's correct but it sure isn't right. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm afraid it is.
LEGO ain't cheap, especially one of the biggest consumer sets ever
Maybe Star Wars LEGO is slightly more expensive too because of licensing issues.
It'll look great once it's finished though 
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Sander Rossel wrote: It'll look great once it's finished
I think you mean "It'll look grey once it's finished".
In a galaxy far, far too grey.
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