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From: Nick Naym on 15 Jul 2010 23:04
In article i1ohra$2rs$2(a)news.eternal-september.org, Wes Groleau at
Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org wrote on 7/15/10 10:57 PM:

> On 07-15-2010 22:53, Nick Naym wrote:
>>>> But that was then, and this is apparently 10 minutes later. :)
>>>>
>> Relatively speaking, of course.
>
> Everything is relative�in its own way. (Ray Stevens?)


Especially if you have a large family. (Vito Corleone?)


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From: Richard Maine on 15 Jul 2010 23:28
Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:

> In article <1jlmzul.1qkwxon9pg0cgN%nospam(a)see.signature>,
> nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:
>
> > [about a NASA phone system being off by 10 minutes or so]

> Sounds like another one of those NASA units screw ups. The phone system
> was using English seconds while the launch countdown was using metric
> seconds. Now if you guys had just standardized on UTC seconds, there
> wouldn't have been any problem. That's what you get for using the lowest
> bidder. ;)

Yeah. In this case, I think that bidder was Verizon. :-(

(I don't recall that for sure, but heck, I'll blame them anyway on the
theory that they are at fault for enough things that one more won't
matter. :-))

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From: Mike Rosenberg on 16 Jul 2010 08:43
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> > Are you sure it has nothing to do with using hex zeroes instead of
> > binary zeroes?
>
> You mean ASCII zeros, Mike. Get it right, please.

D'oh! Nuts! Donuts!

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From: Fred Moore on 19 Jul 2010 12:09
In article <jollyroger-1EF326.20520515072010(a)news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <1jlopke.1ytj4lc1mzx0ckN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>,
> mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:
>
> > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like another one of those NASA units screw ups. The phone system
> > > was using English seconds while the launch countdown was using metric
> > > seconds. Now if you guys had just standardized on UTC seconds, there
> > > wouldn't have been any problem. That's what you get for using the lowest
> > > bidder.
> >
> > Are you sure it has nothing to do with using hex zeroes instead of
> > binary zeroes?
>
> You mean ASCII zeros, Mike. Get it right, please.

Aaaah, where is Mark Conrad when we need him?!?
From: Fred Moore on 20 Jul 2010 11:26
In article
<michelle-C8F3DB.09500419072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <fmoore-A34C68.12095619072010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:
>
> > Aaaah, where is Mark Conrad when we need him?!?
>
> Er, when do we ever need him?

Why, whenever we need a discourse on hex zero and how it differs from
and is better than every other kind of zero! It's a little known fact
that 'Mark Conrad' is an anagram for DoRam C'Narc, the Time Lord in
charge of The Universal Zero Continuum. Oops, I shouldn't'a told you
that. It's a state secret. Now The Continuum is gunna have to obliterate
everyone on UseNet. Oh well, it's Monday morning, and I need more
coffee. If NASA had just standardized on UTC seconds, none of this would
have happened! But WAIT! Maybe none of this ever happened. THAT'S IT!
DoRam has been fluxing with the timeline again.

Um, tell me again. What were we talking about?
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