Should private beliefs be enough to prevent someone from heading a project they helped found?
Yes. Since we apparently live in a country where executives' private beliefs can be imposed on everyone else in the organization because "corporations are people too, my friend," then the organization should be answerable for the executives' private beliefs. It cuts both ways.
13 identical months of 28 days each
365 is semiprime and neither of those factors is either 13 or 28.
in addition to a short Month Zero containing only new year's day
Epagomenal days wreak havoc on "monthly" billing cycles (see: Coptic calendar, Mayan calendar, et al.). This is why the Julian and Gregorian bissextile day is explicitly a part of February.
and a single leap year day every four years (with the exception of every 128 years).
The Gregorian calendar design explicitly rejected more precise intercalation cycles in favor of numbers that were easier to remember (i.e. more user friendly). Hell, the quadrennial bissextile cycle introduced by the Julian calendar got screwed up in Augustus Caesar's own lifetime. Never underestimate the need for simplicity.
The beginning of this zero-based numbering calendar, denoted as 0.0.0.0.0.0 TC
We can't even get all programming languages to start their arrays at 0. What makes you think it'll be easier for non-programmers to accept this?
is on the solstice, exactly 10 days before the UNIX Epoch (effectively, December 22nd, 1969 00:00:00 UTC in the Gregorian Calendar).
The solstice is an instant; the date it occurs on depends entirely on your meridian/time zone (e.g. the Chinese calendar explicitly specifies Beijing time). So "exactly ten days" is a meaningless descriptor.
Besides, since you're adopting a quadrennial intercalation cycle, that instant will drift back about six hours every year, further screwing up your "exactness."
Last but not least: the solstice is a fundamentally difficult astronomical phenomena to measure. The instant it occurs is somewhere in the window where the sun's north-south motion is too small to measure. Equinoxes have historically been measured with far greater precision.
It's "terran" inception and unit durations reflect the human biological clock
Then where the heck are your 28-day months coming from? The billions of people who live under a lunar or luni-solar calendar already know that the average synodic month is about 29.5 days, and that's the "month" that affects tides and human fertility cycles.
and align with astronomical cycles and epochs.
Really?
Days, months and years have nothing to do with each other; there is nothing to "align" to.
Its "computational" notation, start date, and algorithm are tailored towards the mathematicians & scientists tasked with calendrical programming and precise time calculation.
Days, months and years aren't SI units, and the one true SI unit of time has jack shit to do with any of them.
Kidding aside, as I recall Uranus' ring system itself was discovered through an occultation like this.
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Metro versus dosshell
FIGHT!
I would guess there's a lot more in the way of tricky IP issues to deal with there than with the early versions that were still primarily based on the original purchased rights.
We're talking about a version of DOS where the only text editor is edlin, and this is before we start dealing with Dou-- er, DriveSpace.
You are an idiot.
But he's the guy that signs the paychecks, and that's all that matters in the job market.
Claims are made that the state was the typical bad client
And yet it's only after you sign the contract that you think to get a lawyer involved.
and GPS breaking down we're you're headed
If they're as reliable as Slashdot's automated grammar screening I don't have much faith in the technology
People who are absolutely at the top of the scale in 1925, for instance, would be getting food stamps today, said Greenspan.
Has Greenspan blown the dust off his Rolodex lately? I can't think of anybody with the last name "Rockefeller" or "Vanderbilt" in 2014 that's hurting for cash.
"If we're not going to educate our kids, bring in other people who want to become Americans," said Greenspan, in arguing for an increase of H-1B workers.
H-1B is not a path to citizenship, apparently by design. Green card holders can say "Screw you, I quit" without deportation, which is not what companies want when they reach for H-1B's.
In the context of income inequality, Greenspan put the H-1B program in his light: If the program were expanded, income wouldn't necessarily go down much, "but I bet you they would go down enough to really make an impact, because income inequality is a relative concept.
H-1B's are competing for the bottom. Executives don't bring in indentured servants to be their own replacement, nor are meaningful numbers being placed into "rock star" slots (rock stars can command perks like actual green card status anyway). H-1B's only drive down the wages of the bottom, not the top, exacerbating wealth disparity.
"I'm appreciated here!"
Only the people who see nothing wrong with such monitoring would be doing the job.
Just tax a small bit of the wealth flowing through the country and give people part-time jobs fixing potholes or whatever.
Why the make-work? Just go with basic income where everybody gets a check that's enough for food, shelter and other necessities, with no means testing or anything. If you want a bigger house or flashier car or a lawn greener than the neighbors', then you can go out and get a job (profit motive) to supplement your income beyond this. But you still take the "or die" factor out of employment.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
