Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

[Zeerak Waseem]

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:15:52 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann  
<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:

> On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Erik wrote:
>> Stroller skrev:
>> > On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of
>> >> week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious
>> >> observance. It would appear your locale uses a different translation!
>> >
>> > I am torn as whether to find this funny or improper.
>> >
>> > Only when I know what it's supposed to say I really like the joke that
>> > both are equally important. Why indeed give religious observance a
>> > higher priority?!?!
>>
>> I have encountered arguments like this:
>> "Yes, there's a setting for that in the country/region settings module
>> but if you're not interested in it, it won't bother you. If you are, you
>> can have kontact or the calendar plasmoid show those days as special.
>> That's it. Sounds unproblematic to me."
>>
>>
>> My point is of course that in my desktop environment, I do not want an
>> option for either strip club attendance, religious observance, or
>> anything else that someone else might want to do once a week.
>>
>> I would prefer to keep the desktop environment neutral (secular) by
>> default. If there is indeed a need for such an option to make sundays
>> red in the calendar, it would be more proper to call it sometning more
>> neutral, like "Weekly holiday", "Ceremonial weekday" or "Special
>> weekday". The user can then let that mean lap dance, prayer, family
>> dinner, hiking, hacking or whatever he may be interested in.
>>
>> Yes, I know that "holiday" sounds like "holy day", but it still feels
>> broader than "relious observance". According to wikipedia, a holiday can
>> mean among other things "official or unofficial observances of
>> religious, national, or cultural significance". So the phrase "Weekly
>> holiday" covers the current meaning of the KDE option, but is meaningful
>> even to secular people. Therefore changing the phrase would make KDE
>> usage more acceptable in secular countries and by secular people.
>>
>
> sounds like PC crap.
>
> Sundays are marked special, because most people don't have to work.
> Shops are
> closed and stuff like that.
>
> There is no need to bring in religion.
>

Well there really is. God rested on the seventh day, and therefore no  
labor was tolerated on the seventh day of the week, Sunday. People not  
working on Sundays, is traditionally to make time for going to church, but  
in a society without God, it has been kept because it's nice to have a set  
day off, every week. And in societies that aren't Christian the Sunday  
free day has been kept for either the resting day of God, or because of  
that being the standard around the world.
So really, there's every need to bring in religion into the consideration,  
if one was to make a serious consideration of how this might be acceptable  
to everyone.

Zeerak