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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #60 on: February 03, 2009, 04:13:30 pm »
what about AB standing for "After Bill" (Meaning Bill Gates, of course).  It would probably make him happier enough to lower the price of Windows 0.05 % for the future release.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #61 on: February 03, 2009, 08:39:59 pm »
First of all: Whats the fucking point? Why waste effort on a stupid, completely unrequired change?

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Or we could all just use the Julian Date, if it bothers us that much. We're from the Bay 12 forums, we like complicated things.

No, we should base our system on imaginary numbers. Just to make peoples heads explode every time yo uask "Whats today's date?".
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #62 on: February 03, 2009, 08:50:20 pm »
Quote from: Alexhans on February 03, 2009, 04:13:30 pm
what about AB standing for "After Bill" (Meaning Bill Gates, of course).  It would probably make him happier enough to lower the price of Windows 0.05 % for the future release.


I, for one, think Bill Gates rules, and thinks the other OSs can go sit at Starbucks and write their screenplays and try to be eclectic.

Also, I heard about BCE and CE in seventh grade.  I'm a senior now and I think I've seen dates referred to as such maybe twice.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #63 on: February 03, 2009, 08:52:43 pm »
We should use the Star Trek "stardate" system. Every day we make up a completely random number from 2000-80000 and that's today's date.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2009, 09:03:11 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on February 03, 2009, 08:50:20 pm
and thinks the other OSs can go sit at Starbucks and write their screenplays and try to be eclectic.


lmaooooooooo so true
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2009, 09:42:26 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on February 03, 2009, 08:50:20 pm
I, for one, think Bill Gates rules, and thinks the other OSs can go sit at Starbucks and write their screenplays, type up novels they will never complete, talk to other Mac users on just how awesome their OS is in comparison to others and try to be eclectic.

 Finished that for you.

 I say we base the next two-thousand on a religious figure of today. Now lets see, what is the most popular religion that popped up in the last hundred yea-

 Oh crap, we are going to base our new date system on Tom Cruises death.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #66 on: February 03, 2009, 09:44:58 pm »
But he isn't dead yet.  ???

How are we supposed to get our dating system if he isn't dead? Unless, he is a zombie?
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #67 on: February 03, 2009, 09:46:36 pm »
 When he does kick the bucket, the year after will be known as 1 AC. That is, unless somebody can make a Latin version of of it.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #68 on: February 03, 2009, 09:57:47 pm »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on February 03, 2009, 09:42:26 pm
Oh crap, we are going to base our new date system on Tom Cruises death.
PCE(Preater Cruisii Excessum) would at least have an universally acctepted positive connotation - the point in time when the world got beter.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #69 on: February 04, 2009, 05:29:04 am »
Quote from: Wooty on February 03, 2009, 08:52:43 pm
We should use the Star Trek "stardate" system. Every day we make up a completely random number from 2000-80000 and that's today's date.

I had a lil program on a old computer that calculated the current stardate...  :P
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #70 on: February 04, 2009, 09:57:52 am »
Quote from: Strife26 on February 03, 2009, 09:44:58 pm
But he isn't dead yet.  ???

How are we supposed to get our dating system if he isn't dead? Unless, he is a zombie?


We can solve that! Im tired of his watch-this-because-it-features-me-and-my-sexy/crazy?-looks movies

Quote from: Wooty on February 03, 2009, 08:52:43 pm
We should use the Star Trek "stardate" system. Every day we make up a completely random number from 2000-80000 and that's today's date.

That would be a great excuse for me... I always keep writing the past year in the first 4 months of the new year.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #71 on: February 13, 2009, 03:19:16 am »
In archaeology we use BP and calBP (before present and calibrated before present). Which is obviously better.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #72 on: February 13, 2009, 03:30:07 am »
I don't see how a before present system works any better than sticking to what we have right now. In all cases we are using an arbitrary event to base our time system, and there is no accuracy change in switching to this new system.
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #73 on: February 13, 2009, 03:30:58 am »
Quote from: Wooty on February 02, 2009, 11:24:52 pm
We've been talking about how it could offend people and how would you like to have to call it year of the Buddah 2009

Im not a budhist, but I wouldn't mind calling it Buddah 2009.. Its catchy
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Re: BC vs BCE
« Reply #74 on: February 13, 2009, 11:43:30 am »
I propose a three notation system: BT, T and AT
Before Today
Today
After Today

We don't even need no stinkin' numbers.
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