Another Britain and France vs. Italy, Germany, Austria vs. Russia and Turkey game in remembrence of a horrible crime against the U.S.

50 bet
30 hour phases
PPSC

we should get people with lots of points to bet 911

Sorry, I meant 36 hour phases. PM me for the password if you want to join.

Come on. It's a great variant game....

This is truly depressing. Come on, it's only 50 to buy in.

How many takers so far?

None so far.

I'm logging off now... I'll check back in a few hours. ; )

1724 deaths in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006 (on both sides, and including foreign civilians) is it less shocking because they know they were at war?

Does they failed peace in the middle east encourage terrorism against the US (who are a huge supporter of Israel, in terms of military aid, and Political clout) ?

Are we doing enough to end these conflict or are we looking for bad guys to blame? a childish us versus them mentality which is just going to breed hatred between us and them on both sides?

How do you think 9 11 will go down in history? What has it inspired?

Orathaic,
Way to politicize something that didn't need to be.

Dngleberry: War (including terrorism) is the continuation of politics by other means: it already was political.

OMGNSO, My point was that the thread wasn't political, just an attempt to start a game of Diplomacy.

Amen to Dingle, now let's all relax before we start a neverending argument.

no come on people and with sic back lets have a never ending 9/11 or 11/9 (as it should be in all civilized countries :P) thread

Sic came back? Where was he?

Obama's dungeon:]

Ah, tied up by chains we can believe in?

I'd say its a safe bet.

Actually trim, 9/11 is easier for sorting and is more civilized. the problem is it should be 2001/09/11, not 11/09/2001 or 09/11/2001

more civilized? no its not its logical to go day month year, just think about it

No one wants to play?

P.S. orathaic,

Save your political crap for another thread! That was a very inhumane way to talk about such a horrible tragedy.

Anyone actually interested? : (

@Trim - you aren't a sfotware devloper ar you? It's LOGICAL to go year month day. Ask any programmer and they'll tell you the same thing.

Here's why: day month year means you get the 10s of the day, then the ones, followed by the 10s of the month then the ones, then the millenium, century, decade, and year. Reverse these and theyare in the proper order of significance and sort easily: millenium, century, decade, year, month (10s then ones), and day (10s then ones) and finally time (10s/1s of hour, minute, and second followed by partial seconds)

This is the single most logical way to represent a date and allow string encoding like 20010911084600.0 is a perfect sortable encoding of the time the first plane struck the towers. I used 00.0 for the seconds and fractions because I don't know them and the time is in eastern as that is the timezone all the attacks were in. But the point was to demostrate how my order of precedence is clearly logical (and the standard used by developers the world over) and yours is only logical to people who think backwards.

Um, arbitrary conventions are arbitrary.

you are just looking at it from a developers point of view who have been around for how long?so anyone whose not a developer is backwards?and you are counting backwards, its logical to go smallest to largest not count BACKWARDS

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.MMM is not arbitrary. MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY are. Trim claimed DD/MM/YYYY was more logical than YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.MMM. And logic is not based on perspective. It is either logical or it isn't It is not logical to put a date in one order of precedence (and not a perfect one at that) while putting time in the reverse (and perfect) order of precedence. Date is an element of time, a construct by humans to measure time on a large scale. There fore the logical way is to make date and time coincide in the order of precedence, largest unit of measure to smallest. In other words millenium (and eon if mankind ever gets there) to millisecond or even nanosecond. Also note, that all significant units of measure with any accuracy (not subjective things like thumbs up/down or letter grades) are numeric in nature, hence we convert from September to 09. Numbers are form left to right in order of largest to smallest unit. If you want to say 09 September 2001, fine. You could also say at 43 minutes after 8 in the morning. Then your system is internally consistent. But wen you convert it all to numeric, the only LOGICAL thing to do is to treat it as a number and use the proper numeric order of precedence.

@Trim so $1,072,045.08 is counting backwards and not logical. Nevermind, you truly are backwards if you think the order of precedence in our numbering system is backwards. I'm done with you now. Live in your delusion and be happy.

PS software developers have been around for over 50 years, in case you weren't aware.

you cant be done with me then make another point.were we talking about money no we were not, oo developers have been around for 50 years and how long have people been doing it dd/mm/yy?

Strawman argument from trim, no surprise there. No reason to explain it to the troll any more.

Wait a minute. You guys should be posting somewhere else. Not here.