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On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Zeerak Waseem wrote: |
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> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:15:52 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Erik wrote: |
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> >> Stroller skrev: |
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> >> > On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> >> ... |
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> >> >> There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of |
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> >> >> week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious |
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> >> >> observance. It would appear your locale uses a different translation! |
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> >> > |
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> >> > I am torn as whether to find this funny or improper. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Only when I know what it's supposed to say I really like the joke that |
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> >> > both are equally important. Why indeed give religious observance a |
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> >> > higher priority?!?! |
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> >> |
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> >> I have encountered arguments like this: |
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> >> "Yes, there's a setting for that in the country/region settings module |
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> >> but if you're not interested in it, it won't bother you. If you are, you |
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> >> can have kontact or the calendar plasmoid show those days as special. |
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> >> That's it. Sounds unproblematic to me." |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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> >> I would prefer to keep the desktop environment neutral (secular) by |
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> >> default. If there is indeed a need for such an option to make sundays |
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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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> >> |
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> >> Yes, I know that "holiday" sounds like "holy day", but it still feels |
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> >> broader than "relious observance". According to wikipedia, a holiday can |
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> >> mean among other things "official or unofficial observances of |
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> >> religious, national, or cultural significance". So the phrase "Weekly |
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> >> holiday" covers the current meaning of the KDE option, but is meaningful |
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> >> even to secular people. Therefore changing the phrase would make KDE |
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> >> usage more acceptable in secular countries and by secular people. |
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> > |
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> > sounds like PC crap. |
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> > Sundays are marked special, because most people don't have to work. |
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> > Shops are |
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> > closed and stuff like that. |
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> > There is no need to bring in religion. |
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> Well there really is. God rested on the seventh day, and therefore no |
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> labor was tolerated on the seventh day of the week, Sunday. |
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blabla. I am really doubting that the jews were the only one with a free day |
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once in a while. Also, if you go back that far, it should be Friday and not |
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the heathen sun day. |
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Besides, it does not matter what it was in the past. It only matters what it |
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is today: |
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a day off once a week. Every week. |