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From: PaulJK on 26 Feb 2010 02:45 jmfbahciv wrote: > Cheryl wrote: >> jmfbahciv wrote: >>> <snip> >>> What is wrong is forcing the entire populace to go through >>> a jetlag twice a year. Their driving is more dangerous >>> and productivity falls until each person has adjusted his/her >>> internal time clock. Congress has been passing laws >>> about truckers getting enough sleep. OTOH, they pass clock >>> resetting laws which causes everybody to not get enough sleep. >>> What's wrong is that it's dangerous and unhealthy. >> >> What's stopping people from going to bed an hour earlier that night? > > We're talking about resetting the biological cycle. People, essentially > do go to bed an hour earlier (or later) depending on the clock switch. > That changes the biology. > >> Anyway, that only works for one direction. The other time, everyone gets >> an extra hour of sleep, and therefore should be more rested and less >> likely to have accidents. > > Wrong. An hour extra, from the usual habit, creates a hangover. Sleeping with your boots on gives you headache in the morning. pjk
From: PaulJK on 26 Feb 2010 02:47 jmfbahciv wrote: > Bob Myers wrote: >> Andrew Usher wrote: >> >> >>> Well, I'm astounded. Indexing from 0 is so obviously the Right Way >>> that I can't imagine why anyone would do it the other way. >> >> Oh, absolutely. Why, I see people in the stores every day, >> counting out their money or the number of items they're >> going to purchase, and saying to themselves "Zero, one, two..." >> >> ;-) > > Especially when the clerk counts change. I'm sure Usher wouldn't > object when he gets a dollar short. Would he perhaps see some value in minting zero cent coins? pjk
From: PaulJK on 26 Feb 2010 03:00 Mensanator wrote: > On Feb 25, 5:00 pm, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote: >> Adam Funk wrote: >>> On 2010-02-24, Bob Myers wrote: >> >>>> Andrew Usher wrote: >> >>>>> Well, I'm astounded. Indexing from 0 is so obviously the Right Way >>>>> that I can't imagine why anyone would do it the other way. >>>> Oh, absolutely. Why, I see people in the stores every day, >>>> counting out their money or the number of items they're >>>> going to purchase, and saying to themselves "Zero, one, two..." >> >>> The initialized state of my shopping basket contains 0 items. Each >>> item I put in increments it. If I initialized at 1, my shopping would >>> crash with a 1-off error on unpacking. >> >> If your shopping basket had been designed by a C programmer, its initial >> state would be the state just before the zeroth item was inserted. That >> suggests that initially the basket contains -1 items. > > This is still wrong. As a database programmer, the initial > state of my shopping basket is Null. Only after I make a > decision about whether to buy Mallomars does the state > (with respect to Mallomars) change to 0 or 1. The initial > state is never -1. > > Don't be confused by the practical consideration of not > being able to distinguish between Null and 0. In databases, > there is no ambiguity at all, since anything added to a > Null results in Null, anything compared to a Null is false. Null compared to a Null is false too? > The same does NOT hold for values of 0. > > 99 bottles of beer on the wall, > 99 bottles of beer! > If Null bottles should happen to fall, > Null bottles of beer on the wall! > >> >> -- >> Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org >> For an e-mail address, see my web page.
From: Chuck Riggs on 26 Feb 2010 05:47 On 24 Feb 2010 09:37:25 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >Chuck Riggs filted: >> >>On 23 Feb 2010 17:41:22 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> >>wrote: >> >>>Robert Bannister filted: >>>> >>>>The eternal rift between morning and evening people. I get very ratty >>>>when politicians force me to get up in the dark more often than need be, >>>>whereas I think dinner is best eaten when it is dark outside. >>> >>>Quite right...I had breakfast yesterday at noon, and dinner at midnight....r >> >>Scrambled eggs and coffee at noon, is lunch just the same, IMO. The >>transition, the uncrossable barrier, is around ten. > >Uncrossable?...pah!...I often cross it in my sleep!...r How sinful! -- Regards, Chuck Riggs, An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE
From: Peter Duncanson (BrE) on 26 Feb 2010 07:33
On 25 Feb 2010 09:04:51 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >BrE filted: >> >>On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:04:21 GMT, the Omrud >><usenet.omrud(a)gEXPUNGEmail.com> wrote: >> >>>What happens when the Messiah does arrive? Is there some sort of >>>central switch which can be pushed to update all the rabbis? >> >>They will all be gathered together in the Promised Land. Jesus of >>Nazareth will arrive and will address them: "Right then, let just try >>again. Pay careful attention...". > >Oh great...the Prince of Peace brought PowerPoint slides....r ....following a hallowed tradition. Moses is well known for his presentation of ten bullet points on two slides reportedly engraved by The Lord. The creation of the Earth and its inhabitants involved a seven stage process. The scriptures do not reveal whether the Creator made a checklist in advance, and if so on what it was written. -- Peter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) |