24 thoughts on “FTC

  1. Thanks, whoever fished it out. Doesn't seem so funny to me anymore. In my defense, I hadn't had my coffee before posting.

    1. I feel your pain. When i submit a story I have to ask myself "will this still be funny/pertinent/meaningful two days from now?" Although if it's urgent, zippy and creature almost always respond right away if you ping them directly. In my case it's rarely urgent.

  2. Daylight Saving Time is stupid. Even stupider are jurisdictions, like Arizona and parts of Indiana, that don't observe it.

    The whole world should be the same time zone, UCT or whatever they call GMT now. China is all one time zone and seems to be reasonably productive.

    And you kids get off my lawn.

    1. I'll tell you, as I'm staying in AZ right now, it's pretty great to watch everyone else deal with Daylights Savings Time while not having to deal with it myself.

      1. My late ex-wife used to commute from here in San Diego to Phoenix, where her job was, once a week. I'd always pick her up at the airport when she returned. I'd ask her, "What time is your plane arriving?"

        She'd answer, "It's leaving at 5."

        This made me mad. It's Arizona's fault. |Evan Mecham. | Jan What's-her-Name. Arpaio.

        Goldwater was okay, though. When he was running for president in '64, they wanted to take him to a country club to play golf, but the club didn't allow Jews. Goldwater said, "I'm only half Jewish. Could I just play nine holes?"

    2. The whole world should be the same time zone, UCT or whatever they call GMT now.

      UTC, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. Glass can explain.

      China is all one time zone and seems to be reasonably productive.

      Only nominally. Time zones and such only matter if you're moving and/or communicating over long distances. The rural serf peasant who doesn't have the proper papers to move about is more likely to go by where the sun is in the sky rather than what a clock in a remote government building says.

  3. I know that hede images that exceed 640p in width will almost always be rejected. Other than that it's entirely arbitrary.

  4. Liberate Attu from temporal tyranny!<img src="http://i64.tinypic.com/i3e7g4.jpg"&gt;

    Time in Indiana has been debated since the Standard Time Act put the state on Central Time in 1918. In 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission divided the state into Eastern and Central Time, but the new time zone line was not consistently observed. Through the 1960s and 1970s, the counties varied their time zones. A few counties even switched time zones from the late 1970s onwards.

    On January 18, 2006, the United States Department of Transportation announced a final rule that would allow 8 of 17 Indiana counties to move to Central Time. Starke, Pulaski, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, and Pike, moved to Central Time on April 2, 2006, as DST started. Already in November 2007, 5 counties including Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, and Pike, returned to Eastern Time.

  5. Now it's max 1500p width or length. At least that's been my experience for the past six months or so.

    The added resolution doesn't really come through, though.

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