LikuI, am the Somberlain.Join Date: 2003-01-10Member: 12128Members
<!--quoteo(post=1610887:date=Mar 3 2007, 03:56 AM:name=Cereal_KillR)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cereal_KillR @ Mar 3 2007, 03:56 AM) [snapback]1610887[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> As for dates, Days->Months->Years. It's logical. Go from the one that changes the most often to the one that changes the least often. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> You could say the same thing with names, but directories list it as Smith, John.
Growing accustomed to days after months it's better to read, for me anyway. I never say, "It's the first of August," but "It's August first."
<!--quoteo(post=1610737:date=Mar 2 2007, 11:36 PM:name=UltimaGecko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UltimaGecko @ Mar 2 2007, 11:36 PM) [snapback]1610737[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I still went to high school in 2001, I was wondering why everyone was getting all worked up; some of the students wanted to (and some of them did) go home. I'm all for avoiding school, but there is absolutely no reason for any sort of panic (which some of it was genuine). No one is going to bomb Wisconsin, so I have no idea what those people could possibly have been thinking. There's even a nuke plant within 70 miles of here, but there's still better things to bomb in just about every state. Heck, the only state lower on the list is probably Nevada or something, cause we already nuked half of it ourselves <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> . Boston's just bat[expletive] crazy. And here's an idea: don't generalize an entire country (no matter how horrible its exported pop-media is). The entire country is running from my remote right now, because it's a little plastic box-shape (ZOMG, I can barely sit still, the panic just ...overwhelms me). Yes, you've hit it on the head. Ameria's weakness is plastic boxes - not a corrupt bureaucracy, fear-mongering media outlets, poor (yet hyper) work ethic, prescription drug reliance, litigation-happy legal system, or subpar lower education spending - it's plastic boxes. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> It has always been said that terrorists would be alone in their fight without the western media sensationalising everything.
The amount of planning, and personal resources that would go into a plan to blow something up are quite large. This news coverage of the bomb squad practicing their "art" on a harmless device is free fear for the people that want to bring your country down.
Media coverage is the most effective tool of terrorism. Instead of covering every little thing that the bombsquad get called out for, cover the actual beneficial acts, like them actually exploding something that would pose a risk, and not something that would be used as an advertisment, or to count how congested that particular area is.
HellbillyA whole title out of pity...Join Date: 2002-11-02Member: 3931Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
Funny how the war on terrorism was supposed to make everyone safer and protect freedom and yaddayadda etc...... it has done absoloutely the opposite, i mean being scared of a little green box...... c'mon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
[WHO]ThemYou can call me DaveJoin Date: 2002-12-11Member: 10593Members, Constellation
<!--quoteo(post=1610887:date=Mar 3 2007, 01:56 AM:name=Cereal_KillR)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cereal_KillR @ Mar 3 2007, 01:56 AM) [snapback]1610887[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> As for dates, Days->Months->Years. It's logical. Go from the one that changes the most often to the one that changes the least often. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's a pretty weak argument. Following your logic we're doing time of day bass ackwards.
Month Day Year works well because you read it in the same order that you figure out when a date is; first you zero in on the month, then you figure out the day of the month. If the year is in question, you go to that, but usually it isn't.
X_StickmanNot good enough for a custom title.Join Date: 2003-04-15Member: 15533Members, Constellation
<!--quoteo(post=1610965:date=Mar 3 2007, 06:34 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Mar 3 2007, 06:34 PM) [snapback]1610965[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Month Day Year works well because you read it in the same order that you figure out when a date is; first you zero in on the month, then you figure out the day of the month. If the year is in question, you go to that, but usually it isn't. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It depends what way you're using it, though. If you're using it to refer to a date in the future or in the past, yeah, that works fine. But if you're using it for day to day use.... I'm more likely to know what the month is than what day it is (date of the day, not... actual day). I know it's march now, for example, but in 2-3 days I probably won't know what the date is. That way day / month / year works better.
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(the date thingy)
What would be the cons and pros?
Debate.
As for dates, Days->Months->Years. It's logical. Go from the one that changes the most often to the one that changes the least often.
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You could say the same thing with names, but directories list it as Smith, John.
Growing accustomed to days after months it's better to read, for me anyway. I never say, "It's the first of August," but "It's August first."
I still went to high school in 2001, I was wondering why everyone was getting all worked up; some of the students wanted to (and some of them did) go home. I'm all for avoiding school, but there is absolutely no reason for any sort of panic (which some of it was genuine). No one is going to bomb Wisconsin, so I have no idea what those people could possibly have been thinking. There's even a nuke plant within 70 miles of here, but there's still better things to bomb in just about every state. Heck, the only state lower on the list is probably Nevada or something, cause we already nuked half of it ourselves <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> .
Boston's just bat[expletive] crazy. And here's an idea: don't generalize an entire country (no matter how horrible its exported pop-media is). The entire country is running from my remote right now, because it's a little plastic box-shape (ZOMG, I can barely sit still, the panic just ...overwhelms me). Yes, you've hit it on the head. Ameria's weakness is plastic boxes - not a corrupt bureaucracy, fear-mongering media outlets, poor (yet hyper) work ethic, prescription drug reliance, litigation-happy legal system, or subpar lower education spending - it's plastic boxes.
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It has always been said that terrorists would be alone in their fight without the western media sensationalising everything.
The amount of planning, and personal resources that would go into a plan to blow something up are quite large. This news coverage of the bomb squad practicing their "art" on a harmless device is free fear for the people that want to bring your country down.
Media coverage is the most effective tool of terrorism. Instead of covering every little thing that the bombsquad get called out for, cover the actual beneficial acts, like them actually exploding something that would pose a risk, and not something that would be used as an advertisment, or to count how congested that particular area is.
As for dates, Days->Months->Years. It's logical. Go from the one that changes the most often to the one that changes the least often.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's a pretty weak argument. Following your logic we're doing time of day bass ackwards.
Month Day Year works well because you read it in the same order that you figure out when a date is; first you zero in on the month, then you figure out the day of the month. If the year is in question, you go to that, but usually it isn't.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It depends what way you're using it, though. If you're using it to refer to a date in the future or in the past, yeah, that works fine.
But if you're using it for day to day use.... I'm more likely to know what the month is than what day it is (date of the day, not... actual day).
I know it's march now, for example, but in 2-3 days I probably won't know what the date is. That way day / month / year works better.