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From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:04 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > > "The Catholic Church" (which refers to no specific organization) > > > hasn't spoken for all of Christendom for nearly half a millennium. > > > > 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one > > organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been > > longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. > > One doesn't "include the East." One has to wonder what knowledge you > have of the Eastern churches. The word 'Christendom', which you used, would normally be taken to include the Eastern Orthodox. One wonders why you wouldn't. > Are you by any chance one of those crackpots who want the Mass > peformed in Latin, who think Jesus decreed that clergy be celibate, > and the congeries of heterodox beliefs that go along with those two? I don't believe in Jesus. But if I did, I might well be one of those, as religion if it were true could not be suffered to modernise in the way you leftists want. Andrew Usher
From: jmfbahciv on 23 Feb 2010 07:18 R H Draney wrote: > Adam Funk filted: >> On 2010-02-21, António Marques wrote: >> >>> On Feb 21, 1:09� am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >>>> = Sunday. >>> Ahem. In low level, pointer oriented languages such as C and its >>> family. And those who chose to imitate it. >>From Verity Stob's "Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB": >> 4. Another thing about arrays. The index of the first element is 0, >> unless it is set to 1 by a directive. >> >> 5. But there are also collections, modern object-oriented versions >> of arrays. And the first element of these is usually 1, unless >> it happens to be 0. Sometimes it is 0 and sometimes it is 1, >> depending on where you found it. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, >> do ya? > > In APL, indexing starts at one unless you've explicitly set it to zero by > setting the system variable quad-IO....r > > And a proper code would always set the index explictly, just in case something burbed when it should have barfed. /BAH
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:05 Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > >> > I chose the Christian holidays because they are international, > >> > >> ??? > > > > They're more so than any other holidays, are they not? > > I suspect that you could find people celebrating Pesach, Purim, Rosh > Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in as many countries as any four Christian > holidays. Well, yes, but not _more people_. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 07:05 Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > > "The advantages of living with two cultures > > Strike one at every turn, > > Especially when one finds a notice in an office building > > 'This elevator will not run on Ascension Day'; > > Presumably, it takes one trip and gets stuck at the top. Waiting for Descension Day? (Why isn't there a word 'decension'?) Andrew Usher
From: jmfbahciv on 23 Feb 2010 07:21
jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > Paul Madarasz <madplmad(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:39:36 -0000, jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >> >>> In sci.physics Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 2/18/10 10:13 PM, Andrew Usher wrote: >>>>> Owing to the inconveniences which attend the shifting of the calendar... >>>> Why not get rid of the calendar altogether... thru the >>>> majority of human existance none was used. >>> True enough, but... >>> >>> Prior to about 10,000 years ago, humans lived as hunter-gatherers and >>> had little need for a calendar. >>> >>> During the Neolithic Revolution, humans "invented" agriculture, established >>> permanent settlements, domesticated animals, and started using metal tools. >>> >>> At about this time, the calendar was invented. >>> >>> If you want to live as a hunter-gatherer wandering the wilderness, hunting >>> for rabbits and grubbing for berries to stay alive, go ahead and throw away >>> your calendar. >>> >>> If you like any of the advances humans have made in the last 10,000 years, >>> like a permanent structure to shelter you from the elements and food on a >>> regular basis, I guess you are stuck with calendars. >> Jared Diamond thinks that agriculture is one of humankind's big >> mistakes. > > Jared Diamond should spend a year trying to feed himself without agriculture. > > No beer. /BAH |