The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XV

[Ajidica]

X-Post.

There are only Privates in Libya?

I would assume so nobody is higher then Gaddafi, who is only a Colonel. Batty, sordid little dictators tend to do stuff like that.

 

[.Shane.]

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[.Shane.]

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Please behave.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This was in an article:

The film, called "Runnin' Down a Dream," had already been premiered in Los Angeles on Aug. 2, and it capped the New York Film Festival Sunday night to a sold-out crowd.
But Monday was the first time any general audiences had seen the film, and it was scheduled to be debuted in 27 cities across the country.
But Gainesville was the only city in Florida to premiere the film, and it was the only city in the country to have a two-night run.

What's the difference between a debut and premiere? And how can it be premiered twice?

 

[Ataxerxes]

Dumb question.

I've heard a lot of references to 2012. Is there something that's been predicted for 2012? Nostradamus or something? I don't watch the history channel much anymore so am not up on mystical ideas.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Dumb question.

I've heard a lot of references to 2012. Is there something that's been predicted for 2012? Nostradamus or something? I don't watch the history channel much anymore so am not up on mystical ideas.

Basically just a bunch of people out to make money by predicting the end of the world. Check this site:
http://www.2012hoax.org

 

[Cutlass]

Dumb question.

I've heard a lot of references to 2012. Is there something that's been predicted for 2012? Nostradamus or something? I don't watch the history channel much anymore so am not up on mystical ideas.

It's idiocy based on the idea that the Mayan calendar does not go beyond that.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Which is really stupid because by definition a calendar is infinite.

 

[W|M]

Or rather, the Gregorian calender seems to be inifinietly accurate. Of course, little things such as very slight shifts in the orbit of the Earth, meteorite impacts, the Sun becoming a red giant, e.t.c. still mess it up.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I mean infinite in that you can't reach a year after which it ends or starts over. There isn't a Year 9999 - Year 0 type thing.

 

[Cutlass]

Which is really stupid because by definition a calendar is infinite.

It can be. I don't know that it is by definition. There's more than one way to design one.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I mean infinite in that you can't reach a year after which it ends or starts over. There isn't a Year 9999 - Year 0 type thing.

That reminds me. I have a vague memory of once seeing in a store a Y2K-compliant radio. And Ive read there were Y2K-compliant flashlights too.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

It can be. I don't know that it is by definition. There's more than one way to design one.

There's little point to a calendar that ends. That means every date after the end date is the same date. If the end date was 12/31/1999, then every date after, whether 1/1/2000 or 1/2/2000 or 1/2/3000 all have the same date. It would be useless.

 

[bernie14]

assuming this picture is in fact, that of a broken clock....how many times in a day would it be correct?

 

[W|M]

X-Post.

Then you'd make a new calendar, wouldn't you?


&@!&*$*&#^$(&) Spanish Conquistadores...

 

[Huayna Capac357]

assuming this picture is in fact, that of a broken clock....how many times in a day would it be correct?

Except one time for the rest of infinity isn't a very good track record, is it?

 

[Ataxerxes]

That reminds me. I have a vague memory of once seeing in a store a Y2K-compliant radio. And Ive read there were Y2K-compliant flashlights too.

I remember the Y2K scare. That was incredible. I figured at the time it was a huge panic, so I took my son to an amusement park (Magic Mountain). Everybody else stayed home and hid. We could just ride the roller coasters constantly because it was so deserted everybody got on-no waiting. My son got to ride his favorite roller coasters 3 times in a row without getting off (I couldn't handle that).

@All. Thanks for answering about the 2012 crisis. I know a lot of this suff (Nostradamus, etc.) gets pretty far out but this seems to push the limits.

 

[W|M]

I remember the Y2K scare. That was incredible. I figured at the time it was a huge panic, so I took my son to an amusement park (Magic Mountain). Everybody else stayed home and hid. We could just ride the roller coasters constantly because it was so deserted everybody got on-no waiting. My son got to ride his favorite roller coasters 3 times in a row without getting off (I couldn't handle that).

Hmm, that could be an idea for 2012...

 

[SuperJay]

I remember the Y2K scare. That was incredible. I figured at the time it was a huge panic, so I took my son to an amusement park (Magic Mountain). Everybody else stayed home and hid. We could just ride the roller coasters constantly because it was so deserted everybody got on-no waiting. My son got to ride his favorite roller coasters 3 times in a row without getting off (I couldn't handle that).

That is mad cool. Good thinking.

I had good times at Y2K - on a Seminole indian reservation in the Florida Everglades, at the world's largest New Year's Eve concert The band played a set from midnight on NYE to sunrise on Jan 1, 2000, over seven hours straight music, no breaks. We were on ABC News or something.

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Hmm, that could be an idea for 2012...

We'll all end up at the same place. Imagine the conversations:
"CFC?"
"CFC."
"What handle?"
"X, you?"
"Y"
"Cool"
"Cool"