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No worries, mate. It'll never see the light of day. ____________________ | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Yeah but what the poll doesn't say is 50 % of that 2/3 want it kept on DST, and the other half want standard time, the final third want it left alone, so in the end there isn't a majority that can agree on what time it should be...  JAWAG, in the end it dies, like it always does, spring forward, fall back.. | |||
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Firearms Enthusiast |
Damn just pick one and leave it the hell alone. | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
This. I don’t care which, just quit the switch every six months. It’s a pain in the ass and serves no useful purpose. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Actually, it’s more like 8 months of DST and 4 months of Standard Time. They extended DST “for the children”, so they could go trick or treating while it was still light (which many children would probably not agree with). | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
Let's just split the difference at the 30 minutes between and make that permanent. SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
I've suggested that very thing before. It makes a lot of sense to me. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Move away from the frozen north, then. You chose to live somewhere where there is 16 hours of daylight and then 16 hours of night. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
Yeah, but that would fuck people born on February 29 out of ever having a birthday. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
And there you have it, two different ideas on what the time standard should be what when, where and why, therefore it probably won't be changed as Northern states lobby for one standard and southern states another... | |||
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I carried a 6' metric tape in my left pocket and a 6' inch tape in my right for a couple decades and used both with my work interchangeably as needed with zero issues. When some one ask to borrow a tape measure I would ask... "Foreign or Domestic?" LOL! got a few strange looks. And hating on paper checks? It's just another option vs electronic transactions. Options are good. Collecting dust. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
^^^^^ Paper checks. Not everyone who needs to be paid has the ability to use plastic. And my cards don't allow more than $2500 in a single transaction or total in a day. Paper checks on the account don't have those limitations. I use them to pay my Handyman and to pay for my vacation tours; any large purchases also get paid by check. I also used to carry a 10' rule all the time. The last time it got lost I didn't replace it. It was amazing how often I had found it useful. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| SIGforum Official Eye Doc  |
The dark side of permanent daylight savings time: How the Senate bill eliminating the changing of the clocks may make Americans sicker, fatter and more depressed, writes sleep expert DR. MEETA SINGH Congress has taken a step towards fixing a federal policy that causes serious health problems across the entire US population. Unfortunately, it is a step in exactly the wrong direction. On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed legislation to do away with the widely despised annual changing of the clocks – which occur once in the spring and again in the fall. The bill would make daylight savings time (DST) permanent starting in 2023. Don't get me wrong -- establishing a fixed, national, year-round time is a good thing. But nearly the entire scientific community is opposed to how they're going about it. The truth is – we just don't know what the long-term health effects of permanent DST will be on Americans. This would be a massive, society-wide experiment. However, we have good reason to believe that permanent DST will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable. Here's what we do know – the twice-annual transitions between standard and daylight savings time are bad for our health. The human body is regulated by three major clocks. One is internal, it is the biological clock, also known as the circadian clock. The internal time system is regulated in our brain and strongly cued by light. *more at link* Can’t say I agree… | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Can't see how anyone can disagree with the idea that we naturally wake to the light and sleep when it becomes dark. Honestly, making daylight savings permanent rather than standard time is sounding more and more backwards and stupid; or perhaps I should say, not fully thought out. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
When has the government ever "fully thought out" anything. We are saddled with Unintended Consequences by them all the time. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
So in about 5 years when most won't remember, these two will claim they passed a bill that would "The bill was led by Democratic Sheldon Whitehouse and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio, who has said the move could reduce crime, childhood obesity and stress." all with a stroke of their pen. Also, I think under the terms of the bill, it won't kick in until 2023 so we may have to go one more round. Maybe next fall we dip our toes in the water and only go back 30 minutes. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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paradox in a box |
I do hope we keep DST. I don’t get how that would hurt health. It’s dark at 9pm the latest (about). I hate dark at 4pm in winter. It’s depressing. I love being able to get yard work done after dinner. I do have an exception for Halloween. As kids we always waited for dark. I found it odd they try to make it lighter for trick or treating. These go to eleven. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Why not make Standard Time standard??? I just moved to AZ which I like that they don't do DST but if DST is permanent, then I'd be off with all the other states - same time as Pacific Standard Time, one hour off from MST and two hours off from the rest. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Because it's the government, and they have to screw up everything. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
frayedends, yard work is what Saturday is for. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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