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I don't like that change. It may help things a bit but if they were going to change anything about overtime, they should just go to college rules for all regular and post-season games. Also, the change seems weird; am I reading this right? A team wins the coin toss and elects to receive. They drive down and score without the other team ever getting possession. If that score was a field goal, then the coin toss losers will then get a possession, but if the score was a touchdown, then the coin toss losers won't get a possession? If that's the case, I'm not sure that the kind of score should matter. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

That's an awesome idea. I hope whoever buys it offers the seats to the passengers. After you give away the seats, here's some interesting things that you could do with the rest of it: Hostel: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/11/reclaimed-jumbo-jet-hotel-in-stockholm/ Hotel room: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/13/costa-rican-hotel-suite-takes-flight/ Boat: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/20/the-cosmic-muffin-a-boat-recycled-from-howard-hughes-plane/ Wing desk: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/19/deborah-airplane-wing-desk-by-reestore/ Furniture: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/01/motoart-recycles-airplane-parts-into-high-flyin-furniture/ House: http://www.superuse.org/story.php?title=Little-Trump Motor home: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/17/airplane-house/ -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Well, I've come to learn that Buddhist and Hindu calendars have a year 0. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

They don't make a greater-than sign big enough to accurately represent: Survivorman > Man vs. Wild -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Yes so that you had a transition point between positive and negative numbers, not so some clown can think it belongs on a calendar You are very right sir. People seem to be thinking of 1 BC as -1 and 1 AD as +1 and therefore in their minds there needs to be a 0 separating the 2. Ahem: -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

All you need is a beat-up old 70's ex cop cruiser and you're set! One of my all time favorite movies. Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Aw man, I though we were on the same side. Look, I don't know what else to tell you other than zero is a perfectly valid number and can be used to measure quantity, length, duration, or anything else. We are, but i refuse to allow Zero as a year, that's one of those small steps toward dumbing down. and i wont do that. As I posted previously Zero is a valid reference, it separates positive and negative integers. and i'm all for that. But there is NO ZERO YEAR, Those who insist there is are wrong In the Anno Domini system, no there is no year 0. In the Astronomical system, yes there is: 2 AD = +2 1 AD = +1 1 BC = 0 2 BC = -1 3 BC = -2 Even NASA uses it: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/dates.html -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

They're not ZERO years old in any respect there IS NO zero years If a baby is 1 day old and you were forced to use whole number years to tell his/her age, I think you'd have to say zero. If you could use a decimal number but were still forced to use years as the unit of measure, then, assuming a year to be 365.25 days, a 1 day old baby would be approximately 0.0027378507871321013004791238877481 years old. NOPE They're not ZERO years old in any respect there IS NO zero years. You cant just make it up, the idjits who try to just make themselves look silly. There IS NO zero years Aw man, I though we were on the same side. Look, I don't know what else to tell you other than zero is a perfectly valid number and can be used to measure quantity, length, duration, or anything else. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

They're not ZERO years old in any respect there IS NO zero years If a baby is 1 day old and you were forced to use whole number years to tell his/her age, I think you'd have to say zero. If you could use a decimal number but were still forced to use years as the unit of measure, then, assuming a year to be 365.25 days, a 1 day old baby would be approximately 0.0027378507871321013004791238877481 years old. This is age (measure of length of time) were talking about. Although there is no Year 0 in the Anno Domini system, zero years is a perfectly valid length of time. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

I'm no "bonafide historian", but here's what I've learned: It seems that Dionysius Exiguus is responsible for our year numbering. In 525 AD, he came up with a table of Easter Sunday dates which had years that were based on Anni Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (the year of our Lord Jesus Christ). Later, in 731 AD, the Venerable Bede finished writing "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." In this history, he used years that were based on Anno Domini and "Ante Vero Incarnationis Dominicae Tempus" (the time before the Lord's true incarnation) and did not use a year 0. Afterwards, this system of numbering the years became popular in Western Europe and is now the defacto standard. For yet another link, here's what the U.S. Navy has to say on the matter: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/millennium.php -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

1. Your astrophysicist buddy will tell you the same thing I did. 2. We are talking about the Gregorian calendar because that's what the OP is about. Even so, if you want to enumerate the years starting at the Big Bang, it makes perfect sense to call the first year 'Year 1'. That's what people do when they count things. The first one is 1. The second one is 2. etc... 3. The Gregorian calendar goes back to 1 AD with the year prior to that being 1 BC. Love it or hate it, that's the way that it is. 4. There's this argument that goes something like: "You can't say there's a year 1 until the first year is over with." This is nonsense. There's a difference between enumerating/labelling the years versus measuring time. For example, from the time a person is born until their first birthday, yes, they would be 0 years old (if you were giving their age in years instead of the more normal days/months). On their first birthday, they turn 1. On their second birthday, they turn 2. That's age - a measure of time duration. That's not the same thing as enumerating the years. When a person is born, they enter into the first year (Year 1) of their life. Once Year 1 is overwith, they enter into Year 2. etc... -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Your astrophysicist buddy will tell you that there are different ways to measure years. One is how long it takes the earth to revolve around the sun called a Tropical Year: "tropical year (NASA SP-7, 1965) The period of one revolution of the earth around the sun, with respect to the vernal equinox. Because of precession of the equinoxes, the tropical year is not 360 degrees with respect to the stars, but 50 minutes 0.3 seconds less. A tropical year is about 20 minutes shorter than a sidereal year, averaging 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 45.68 seconds in 1955 and is increasing at the rate of 0.005305 second annually. Also called astronomical, equinoctial, natural, or solar year." Source: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/aerospacedictionary/aerodictall/t.html#tropical%20year She'll also tell you that there's a Calendar Year: "calendar year (NASA SP-7, 1965) The year of the Gregorian calendar, common years having 365 days and leap years 366 days. Each year exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, except century years (1800, 1900, etc.), which must be exactly divisible by 400 (2000, 2400, etc.) to be leap years. The calendar year is based on the tropical year. Also called civil year." Source: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/aerospacedictionary/aerodictall/c.html#calendar%20year Clearly, the OP is giving dates on the Gregorian calendar. That's the normal thing to do and doesn't need to be explicitly spelled out. And finally, your astrophysicist buddy will tell you that there is no year zero: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980902d.html -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Nope. The calendar currently in use is the Gregorian one. According to that calendar, the current year is 2010 AD. Prior to that was 2009 AD. On and on until 1 AD. Prior to that was 1 BC. Prior to that was 2 BC and so on. I didn't make that up. Some dude long ago did. Believe it or not, like it or not, that's the way it works. Given that, it's a simple count to know that we're currently in the 3 millennium, 21st century, 201st decade (which ends this year), and 2,010th year. If a year zero is really that important to you, then by all means, switch to a different calendar that uses one.

Good. The first instance of something is labeled as 1. That's what we've been saying. You don't call your first skydive 'Jump 0'; you call it 'Jump 1'. Likewise, you don't call the first year 'Year 0'; it's 'Year 1'. From there it's a simple counting operation to go from decade to decade (or century to century, or millennium to millennium). But its not a year, until the year is done... a year is 365 days, not one... so up until the 365th day, its not one year yet. Not getting into leap years here... Year 1 wasn't over until 12/31/0001. So what? Prior to making your first skydive, did you tell people you were going to make your first jump or your zeroth jump? -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

You might call that the end of the 'oughts' and the beginning of the 'tens'. That is not, however, the end of the 201st decade and the beginning of the 202nd decade. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Good. The first instance of something is labeled as 1. That's what we've been saying. You don't call your first skydive 'Jump 0'; you call it 'Jump 1'. Likewise, you don't call the first year 'Year 0'; it's 'Year 1'. From there it's a simple counting operation to go from decade to decade (or century to century, or millennium to millennium). -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

What do you call your first skydive? Jump 1 or Jump 0? -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Nope. That's 1 year plus 1 day. 7/4/99 - 7/3/00 = 1 year. 7/4/00 is the first day of the second year. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Our calandar is loosly based on the birth of Christ. If it were precise, we'd celebrate Christmas on January 1st. What I can tell you is that right now where I'm at it is January 4, 2010 4:35pm. This puts me in the 2,010th year, the 201st decade, the 21st century, and the 3rd millenium with begining and end dates noted above. Since a decade refers to any 10 year period regardless of when it actually started, someone may celebrate a decade being "smoke free" on whatever date they gave up smoking. Someone may also celebrate the decade of the 'oughts' (2000 to 2009), but that's just celebrating there being a zero in the tens place digit of the year. If someone wants to celebrate the turn of the millenium (i.e., going from the 2nd to the 3rd), the turn of the century (from the 20th to the 21st), or the turn of the decade (from the 201st to the 202nd), then that would only happen when a year that ends in zero changes to a year ending in one. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

The first day of the month is the first (1). The first month of the year is January (1). The first year is 1. Therefore (in mm/dd/yyyy format)... The 1st decade is: 01/01/0001 to 12/31/0010 The 2nd decade is: 01/01/0011 to 12/31/0020 The 3rd decade is: 01/01/0021 to 12/31/0030 and so on until: The 198th decade is: 01/01/1971 to 12/31/1980 The 199th decade is: 01/01/1981 to 12/31/1990 The 200th decade is: 01/01/1991 to 12/31/2000 The 201st decade is: 01/01/2001 to 12/31/2010 The 202nd decade is: 01/01/2011 to 12/31/2020 The odometer may have rolled over in January but the 201st decade doesn't end until December. Also: The 1st century is: 01/01/0001 to 12/31/0100 The 1st century is: 01/01/0101 to 12/31/0200 The 1st century is: 01/01/0201 to 12/31/0300 ... The 19th century is: 01/01/1801 to 12/31/1900 The 20th century is: 01/01/1901 to 12/31/2000 The 21st century is: 01/01/2001 to 12/31/2100 And finally: The 1st millenium is: 01/01/0001 to 12/31/1000 The 2nd millenium is: 01/01/1001 to 12/31/2000 The 3rd millenium is: 01/01/2001 to 12/31/3000 -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Do you see their new family photo? -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

I found another one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68usgau4KjU -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Q: What time is it? A: Time for you to buy a watch. -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

It is repulsive to think about. We don't want our children or grandchildren thinking it is OK. Except it is ok and I think all kids need to be raised knowing that. Not in my family. Pft. *facepalm* (see attachment) -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/

Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned -- Turn off the internet! Join Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety! http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/