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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:14:26 +0100, Erik wrote: |
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> My point is of course that in my desktop environment, I do not want an |
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> option for either strip club attendance, religious observance, or |
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> anything else that someone else might want to do once a week. |
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So where is the problem, since you can set that option to None? Or do you |
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want the option removed to deny others the choice? |
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> I would prefer to keep the desktop environment neutral (secular) by |
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> default. |
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Well, yours is as it does not refer to religious observance, only |
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strip club attendance. |
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> If there is indeed a need for such an option to make sundays |
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It doesn't have to be Sunday, that's why it's an option. |
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> red in the calendar, it would be more proper to call it sometning more |
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> neutral, like "Weekly holiday", "Ceremonial weekday" or "Special |
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> weekday". The user can then let that mean lap dance, prayer, family |
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> dinner, hiking, hacking or whatever he may be interested in. |
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This is just getting silly. |
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> Yes, I know that "holiday" sounds like "holy day", |
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Because that's what it meant. Holiday was originally a contraction of |
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holy day, because those were the only days people got off work. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Head: (n.) the part of a disk drive which detects sectors and decides |
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which of the two possible values to return: 'lose a turn' or 'bankrupt.' |
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