I'm with you on this it should be 24 then start at 1.

Agreed, but temperature should always be Kelvin.

So you chat with anons but never with me?

As for the time, keep in mind it's called "military time" for a reason.
1) Soldiers are superior to common folk and so need a higher/complex language known as "military speak".
2) It IS purposefully confusing just like everything else they do, because codes and secrecy and stuff.

(October 25, 2014 at 2:43 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: So you chat with anons but never with me?

As for the time, keep in mind it's called "military time" for a reason.
1) Soldiers are superior to common folk and so need a higher/complex language known as "military speak".
2) It IS purposefully confusing just like everything else they do, because codes and secrecy and stuff.

I chat with anyone who wishes to chat with me. And he's not an Anon I was just protecting his privacy bc I didn't ask before posting this highly confidential and private conversation for the world to see.

Bah, conventions... just use them and you can get along with everyone.
Make up your own and no one will understand you.
Since communication is meant for people to get along, you might just as well use the convention.

I malkonsenti!

So, when your car isn't moving should the speedometer read 1 MPH?

Actually, the twelve hour, AM?PM system is the one that's fucked up.

AM = ante meridiem (before midday)
PM = post meridiem (after midday)

Midnight is both and noon is neither.

Wear one of these:

(October 25, 2014 at 2:55 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah, conventions... just use them and you can get along with everyone.
Make up your own and no one will understand you.
Since communication is meant for people to get along, you might just as well use the convention.

I use the 12 hour time system currently. Military time confuses me but I can usually get it.
I'm not like on a mission to change the way things work. I was just trying to point out that, in my mind, they work differently. Differently enough that the whole military time system really bothers me if I think about it too much.

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(October 25, 2014 at 2:59 pm)Chas Wrote: So, when your car isn't moving should the speedometer read 1 MPH?

Hmm good question. I see a speedometer as measuring speed not location. Also, time never stops moving. I see a clock as measuring location. When I think about what time it is, I'm thinking about where I am in time right now.

When you're about to go on a trip but you haven't started driving yet, should your GPS tell you that your current location is nowhere?

(October 25, 2014 at 2:59 pm)Losty Wrote: When you're about to go on a trip but you haven't started driving yet, should your GPS tell you that your current location is nowhere?

It should tell you the you have driven 0 miles.