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| From | Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Find day of week from a given date |
| Date | 2017-03-26 14:07 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ob93cn$qvm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 3/26/2017 4:27 AM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 12:56:29 PM UTC-7, Cecil - k5nwa wrote: >> On 3/25/2017 2:32 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: >>> I agree that day/month/year would make more sense than month/day/year because it is ascending. But everybody in America uses month/day/year and their minds are fixed. Is day/month/year used in other countries? >>> >>> I also think that base-6 would make more sense than base-10 --- but humans have been using base-10 for thousands of years --- I read somewhere that aboriginals in Ecuador use base-6, but I don't know if that is true. >>> >>> The Japanese (maybe all Asians) write the surname first, then the given name. This makes more sense because it helps when doing a look-up, such as in a telephone book. But that is not how it is done in the Western world, and it is too late to change. >>> >>> The English are notorious for being obstinate and doing things different than everybody else, all on the theory that they are the superior race and anything invented by an Englishman must necessarily be superior. For example, the Enfield rifle has the rifling in the opposite direction of everybody else in the world. When you stick a cleaning rod in, the attachment on the end unscrews and can get stuck in the barrel, which is extremely dangerous if you don't notice and then fire the rifle (hopefully your left eye was your good eye, because that is the only one you will have still functioning; and, if you weren't handsome to start with, you won't be too disappointed in your face afterward). But why do the English do it differently? What difference does it make whether the bullet spins counter-clockwise or clockwise in the air? The purpose of spinning is stabilization, but this works the same with either spin. So why not just do it the same way as everybody else? The English are just being arrogant and obstinate --- they did it backwards because they weren't thinking, way back in the late 19th century --- now they are married to the mistake and refuse to change. >>> >> >> Ah but the Lee Enfield had many advantages over other bolt action rifles. >> >> It was much faster than other rifles of the bolt action era because it >> had a shorter throw on the bolt, that made you more accurate while >> multiple firing since the bold did not hit your face and you had to take >> the rifle away from your face while cocking. Unlike the Mouser 98 >> action, the lock was in the back instead of the front that helped it >> have a shorter throw. It packed 10 rounds of ammunition instead of your >> typical 5 rounds and because it used an external magazine it could be >> loaded faster. So it had a lot of improvements to it's one odd thing but >> that did not make a difference anyway. Cleaning rods are available with >> reverse threads so having the right cleaning rod can be done. Everyone >> thinks their culture is the best, nothing new there. > > Actually, I like the Enfield --- of all those WWII surplus rifles floating around, getting sold for $100, it is likely the best --- I would rather have an Enfield than an AK-47 or SKS in a post-apocalyptic world. > > The point I was making, is that people get married to a mistake, and then they obstinately refuse to change --- it is best to change early, while it is minimally painful to do so --- actually, the Enfield design could have been changed at any time with almost no pain (everybody who had invested $10 in a reverse-threaded cleaning rod would have to buy a normal one and discard their goofy reverse-threaded one). > > Another point I was making, is that after it becomes too late to change, it is a waste of energy to try to change --- it is also a bad idea to get married to an obscure technology, and ignore the mainstream world --- for example: I think the .327-magnum is a slightly better pistol for women than the .38-special, but I don't recommend that anybody buy it because ammo will be nearly impossible to find. > I'm aware of your point, just showing interesting facts about the Lee Enfield rifle, all about it was not due to stubbornness, actually I believe that the Enfield was the first repeating (not 100% sure) bolt action rifle so it was the rest of the world that went it's own way. -- Cecil - k5nwa
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Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 11:51 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-03-21 18:17 -0300
Re: Find day of week from a given date Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 17:47 +0100
Re: Find day of week from a given date "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-03-22 20:52 -0300
Re: Find day of week from a given date Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 06:57 +0200
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-22 19:16 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-22 19:25 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-22 21:28 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-23 14:12 +0000
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-23 16:25 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-23 22:02 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-23 23:07 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-24 08:46 +0000
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 05:35 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-23 15:23 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 09:38 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 10:24 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-24 13:32 -0500
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:19 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-24 16:01 -0500
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:00 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:19 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 23:35 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 01:59 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 02:50 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 04:37 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-25 12:32 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 14:56 -0500
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-26 02:27 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:07 -0500
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 13:17 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2017-03-24 14:43 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 15:36 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 23:47 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 03:00 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-03-25 09:06 -0300
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:28 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 12:49 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 13:15 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-26 14:49 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-26 17:08 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 04:23 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-26 15:00 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 00:50 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-27 09:14 -0700
Re: Find day of week from a given date "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-03-29 08:23 +0000
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