Doing away with months is OK with me, and t here's no real reason a week needs to be 7 days.
OT: Danger! Time warp!
Oct 28, 2017
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It would make more sense to use a 24 hour clock too. The months may be traditional, but using 365 days makes sense too. Day one to day 90 is cold. Day 91 to day 120 is mild. You get to know that quickly, just like the months.
Better to find another planet to inhabit first....
We need better launch facilities first.
If you're going to killfile me, do it properly.
Yes.
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By 2011 only 10% of the private employers had pension plans. They have a bad reputation as many people have been screwed out of their plans.
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69 plans failed in 2015. Under new legislation even the ones that do not fail outright can renegotiate and cut the promised benefits to retirees.
The capitalist plan has always been to privatize the profits and socialize the costs whenever possible. Marx might end up having the last laugh as the Ponzi scheme collapses.
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Move close to the equator and you'll become as stupid as the indigenous population.
You do realize that at the equator you get 12 hours of darkness every day, don't you?
The French tried something like that. Nobody paid much attention so they gave up:
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I do. My watch now shows 21:21. It's fun when someone asks me what time it is and I forget to translate.
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Yes, it's simpler while being just as useful. You don't have to deal with that "am/pm" stuff, and using 12 for 0.
That would be convenient. Where is it like that?
I guess no-one looks at my sig ...
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No less in the evening still and more in the morning. Brian
Almost certainly.
Townie.
Round here there is only 1 4G network (EE), Voda and Three are 3G, O2 only 2G! Go down the road 100 yds and all four disappear. Indoors to have call that doesn't involve each end repeating themselves 50% of the time or just drop out you have to be upstairs, by a window, on the right side of the house.
Quite. When we moved in here some 21 months ago, the only way you could get any cellphone signal at all was either to go outside or to stand at one end of the hall.
About 9 months later, Voda must have done something and we get 4 bars of
4G. But then I went into the nearest town yesterday afternoon and 4G was flaky and intermittently there was nothing at all.BTDT. Fortunately no longer.
Try catching a Midland Mainline, North of Derby there's more-or-less no coverage at all until Chesterfield. Then it drops out again until Sheffield.
Right now 0 bars on mine
move a foot to the right and maybe 2. On a good day. With the moon in Scorpio
No, clocks going forwards means everything appears to happen later. It gets lighter later in the morning (more darkness) and dark later in the evening (more light).
Bullshit. There's no statistics to show countries nearer the equator contain stupider folk.
I could perhaps imagine that only very clever folk can survive in colder climates as growing food is more difficult, whereas in a paradise climate, anyone can survive.
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