Message-ID: from Arny Krueger
contained the following:

"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message

Message-ID: from Arny Krueger
contained the following:

That he couldn't connect? You do have _such_ a problem with
English don't you Arny?

Ironically Kurt, you guessed wrong. When he explained himself, he
said that he was commented on the freedom of FP-generated errors.

In what Universe was this?

The one that most of us live in.

Geoff, you responded to CC's post on 7/8. However, your response
suggests that you didn't read the post very carefully.

I assume you mean my response to Chris Croughton on 8/7 (it's not
August yet

But it is the 7th month. Where I'm sitting right now, dates are written
mm/dd/yy.

You are sitting in two uk groups. Huge clue there I think.

and haven't you ever heard of message IDs?),

Of course I have, but that seems like a lot of work to describe something
that happened two days ago.

You looked up the date, cutting and pasting an ID is barely more work.

in which I said (and I quote in full):

shrug It did not work at the time I tried it.

Read the rest of CC's post.

WTF has that got to do with it? You were referring to what I said. Which
was nothing like what you quoted. For someone espousing the virtues of
digital (in which I am sympathetic) accuracy is not a big thing with you is
it?

Explain yourself properly please, with correct referencing, or get
out of the game.

You obviously aren't trying very hard Geoff. I'm not your daddy, so paddle
your own canoe.

Does anyone else have a clue what this idiot is on about?
--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

"Ronnie McKinley" wrote in
message news
In uk.rec.audio Kurt Hamster wrote:

I've never ever done this to any person in all my time on Usenet (which
is probably longer than yours), but *plonk* - even I know when to stop
banging my head on a brick wall.


Thanks for all the entertainment, Kurt ... I'm going to miss you
making a dick out of Arny, but then I suppose Arny is quite capable of
making a dick out of himself, after all he had been doing it unaided
for years.


I think you mean 'singlehandedly'.......

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:00:11 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message

Message-ID: from Arny Krueger
contained the following:

The one that most of us live in.

Geoff, you responded to CC's post on 7/8. However, your response
suggests that you didn't read the post very carefully.

I assume you mean my response to Chris Croughton on 8/7 (it's not
August yet

But it is the 7th month. Where I'm sitting right now, dates are written
mm/dd/yy.

This happens to be /UK/ newsgroups, wherever you are sitting. Of
course, it would be better if people used the international standard
(ISO 8601) of yyyy-mm-dd instead of all these provincial and ambiguous
ones. Or even spell it out as 7 July (or July 7 if you prefer)...

Chris C

Message-ID: from Chris Croughton
contained the following:

But it is the 7th month. Where I'm sitting right now, dates are written
mm/dd/yy.

This happens to be /UK/ newsgroups, wherever you are sitting.

Actually now I know here Arny is 'sitting' his attitude makes a whole lot
more sense and sadly all too typical. Centre of the universe syndrome and
all that.
--
Geoff Berrow
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

"Chris Croughton" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:00:11 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message

Message-ID: from Arny Krueger
contained the following:

The one that most of us live in.

Geoff, you responded to CC's post on 7/8. However, your response
suggests that you didn't read the post very carefully.

I assume you mean my response to Chris Croughton on 8/7 (it's not
August yet

But it is the 7th month. Where I'm sitting right now, dates are written
mm/dd/yy.

Of course. Since I'm flexible and make these translations all the time in US
NGs, I (perhaps mistakenly) presumed that this would be obvious elsewhere.

This happens to be /UK/ newsgroups, wherever you are sitting.

The same principle doesn't prevent the reverse thing from happening. In most
situations people look at dates, apply the relevant transformations and move
on.


Of
course, it would be better if people used the international standard
(ISO 8601) of yyyy-mm-dd instead of all these provincial and ambiguous
ones. Or even spell it out as 7 July (or July 7 if you prefer)...

Frankly it would be nice if the good ole USA would step out of the dark ages
(ironically picked up from the UK) and standardized on the same conventions
as the rest of the civilized/developed world. But today I live where I live
and it is what it is.

Fact is that if I wasn't dealing with a bunch of nit-picking *******s like
Hamster and McKinley, this wouldn't be an issue. They sorely need lives.
Were they as bright as they think they are, they wouldn't be such audio
ignoramuses, and this discussion could be interesting.

"Ronnie McKinley" wrote in
message ...
In uk.rec.audio "Arny Krueger" wrote:


Fact is that if I wasn't dealing with a bunch of nit-picking *******s
like
Hamster and McKinley, this wouldn't be an issue. They sorely need lives.
Were they as bright as they think they are, they wouldn't be such audio
ignoramuses, and this discussion could be interesting.



Dear oh dear, oh dear ... WWJS, Arny?



OK, I give in - WTF *does* WWJS mean?


(Also, do you have any idea why yer man seeks to participate in
'discussions' he finds 'uninteresting' - is he that hard up for company?)

Kurt Hamster wrote:
On 10 Jul 2003 11:33:01 GMT, Chris Croughton used
to say...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:24:11 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:
On 10 Jul 2003 07:47:04 GMT, Chris Croughton used
to say...

snip

Now you may argue that he also used "or" instead of "and", but as I
previously stated I considered them to have similar meaning in this
context.

I think that's almost .sigable

--
=/\= Lt. Cmdr. Jim =/\=
It's only Usenent, everyone dies.
Handy status thingy. Sometimes up to date.
http://jim.us-lot.org/usenet/index.html

"Lt. Cmdr. Jim" wrote in message
...
Kurt Hamster wrote:
On 10 Jul 2003 11:33:01 GMT, Chris Croughton used
to say...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:24:11 +0100, Kurt Hamster
wrote:
On 10 Jul 2003 07:47:04 GMT, Chris Croughton used
to say...

snip

Now you may argue that he also used "or" instead of "and", but as I
previously stated I considered them to have similar meaning in this
context.

I think that's almost .sigable


And possibly Boolean. g

Ali

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:03:17 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

"Chris Croughton" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:00:11 -0400, Arny Krueger
wrote:

Of course. Since I'm flexible and make these translations all the time in US
NGs, I (perhaps mistakenly) presumed that this would be obvious elsewhere.

What would be obvious? Something like 8/7 is not at all obvious, even
if the reader knows your nationality, because some people convert and
others don't.

This happens to be /UK/ newsgroups, wherever you are sitting.

The same principle doesn't prevent the reverse thing from happening. In most
situations people look at dates, apply the relevant transformations and move
on.

No, in most situations people are sensible and disambiguate dates,
writing the month as a word for instance. Or using an international
standard format which is unambiguous by definition (since no one uses
yyyy-dd-mm). And when they do make a mistake and use their local format
they apologise and say "Yes, that's what I meant, sorry" or something
like that.

Chris C