Re: Disc Compatibility?

On 3/7/2025 1:34 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 3/7/2025 12:57 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:23:38 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/7/2025 12:46 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

On 6 Mar 2025 12:46:35 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
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With apologies for Facebook link!
<https://m.facebook.com/story.php? story_fbid=10154178800268586&id=13533633585>

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A stone that size would weigh about 25 tonnes (or tons).  The trailer
in the video might be able to handle 1 tonne.  With the trailer wheels
shown, probably less.  The painted rock is likely to be a fake.

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All good logical points and my wife probably tried to explain at the time!

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Another clue is that it was posted on Mar 31, 2016 (US), which would
be April 1 in England.
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Would have been 2014 the original one, or at least the one that fooled me
for a while, it’s why such folks as my self get a higher rate of
conspiracies theories and gambling and so on.

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I did a reflecting ceiling sundial on the ceiling of my study at home.
When the clocks change, I just jack up the house and rotate it 15 degrees.

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"S.29 - Sunshine Protection Act of 2025"
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate- bill/29/text>
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If the bill passes, year round daylight savings time will become the
new standard time unless a state decides to ignore daylight saving
time, leave things alone, or add some more amendments to really screw
things up.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind switching to GMT/UTC but that's likely to
make things worse.  Pick a standard, any standard:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard>
but don't change the time in mid-year.
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I'm still waiting for a study of how much energy and dollars was saved
by enlarging DST in the US:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States>
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In 2019, California attempted to make DST more "flexible" (which means
adjust the dates to which way the political wind is blowing).  The
bill failed to pass:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7>
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I would support basing everything off 24 hr GMT. I don't see how that would make anything 'worse', if anything, it simplifes everything. A zoom meeting at 1200 is 1200 everywhere, regardless if you're in Berlin Germany or NYC. No more excuses of forgetting to account for time zones. No more needing to base your clock setting off longitude.
 While we're at it, get rid of the 24/60/60 system, base it all on tens: Ten hours in a day, ten minutes in an hour, ten seconds in a minute. A day becomes 1000 seconds long rather than 86400 seconds. We already use base ten to divide seconds anyway, so subdividing into milli, micro, pico, nano, and femto seconds will be nothing new, we would just use them more often (which incidentally would help with converting globally to the metric system). Plank time wouldn't need to change, just the conversion to seconds:
 https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?plkt

I came to agree with that as a smartass teenager.
The entire argument gets a glazed look or an eye roll. I convinced not one person and eventually learned to shut up about time systems.
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Andrew Muzi
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