Why do people do this? Most of the time, you only think you’re the first to post, but you aren’t. And even if you actually are the first to comment, I think people could figure that out with out you saying FIRST. Furthermore, no one gives a shit if you are the first to comment.
omg, YES! “Explain your answer” is pounded into kids’ heads and eventually you get this. People defending answers that are clearly wrong with info that’s even more wrong.
Most people cannot admit that they are wrong when they are, so they deny ever being wrong or slam the person that owned them with hate and prejudice. This is a classic example of that.
The thing with true conservative Christians is they know they are faulty. Faith isn’t always logical, that’s why it’s faith. They don’t make claims to perfection (I’m talking about REAL Christians here, not the holier-than-thou crowd), and ad-hominem just doesn’t work with Christianity. The person that is making the claim is not perfect. However, that does not make the claim false.
For the record, I am a christian and I don’t use bully-tactics when I talk about my beliefs. We are all entitled to our own opinion. If I have to listen to yours, it’s simple courtesy to listen to mine.
Not all years divisible by 4 are leap years. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. Divisible is a tough word to type repeatedly.
Not all years divisible by 100 are divisible by 4 — 2100 is divisible by 100, but not divisible by 4, therefore NOT a leap year. All years divisible by 4 ARE leap years, go look up the definition of leap year.
Try again Psykobabe. 2100/4 = 525, hence 2100 is (evenly) divisible by 4. So it would be a leap year, except that it is divisible by 100 (but not also divisible by 400) so it is not a leap year. So you’re right that 2100 is not a leap year, but wrong that all years divisible by 4 are leap years.
I teach math. Psykobabe’s comment made me want to cry. But the flood of replies by people who realize that divisibility is transitive made me feel much better. Thank you.
…2100 *is* a leap year.
You may be thinking every ten years, rather than hundred, in which case you’d be right; 10, 30, 50, 70, and 90 aren’t evenly divisible by 4, so years ending in those numbers are not leap years. The important bit with 2100 is the ’00′.
If the US is having a presidential election, it’s a leap year. If there are Summer Olympics, it’s a leap year.
NOOOOOO Jill, 2100 is NOT a leap year, even though the US (if it survives that long) will be having an election. In fact, that’s the very definition used by Julius Caesar when formulating the Julian Calendar, as the whole world has always revolved around the US.
That rule has always worked in your lifetime, but it only takes 1 “black swan” event to disprove the rule, and that will occur in 2100. See “Gregorian Calendar.”
Of course, if you’re Orthodox you’re still using the Julian calendar in which case have a good leap year in 2100.
Wow, this is an impressive amount of fail in one thread.
jzimbert: [correct statement regarding the Gregorian calendar]
2 other people: [stating they are too dumb to comprehend something people figured out in the 16th century]
Psykobabe: [inane refutation of jzimbert's statement, betraying complete lack of understanding of grade-school mathematics]
6 other people: [math-based refutation of Psyko's statement, still not touching the Gregorian calendar thing though]
3 other people: [have actual working brains]
Yikes! My brain froze on me for that one. You all are right…need to start a site…failmathing for those of us who major in social sciences for a reason — no math involved!
I stand humbled corrected and beg forgiveness for mathing while majoring in sociology or mathing after midterms
Now…how bout talking about the group dynamic of the responders or the population of the readers? THAT I know I can do *lol*
No, leap years happen every 4 years, UNLESS that year is divisible by 100 then it is not a leap year WITH THE EXCEPTION OF if the year is divisible by 400 (note 400 not 4) the it IS a leap year. so 2000 is a leap year, 2100, 2200, 2300 won’t be. but 2400 will be.
First you take your penance (spanking with a slide rule), then we can talk fake science
(j/k, I actually find sociology interesting, but I wouldn’t study it if my life depended on it)
woohoo spanking! and someone has to study sociology…otherwise I’d be studying chemistry or physics and blowing stuff up that isn’t supposed to be blown up…your choice
I can kinda see where he’s coming from. It makes more sense to call the years that skip Feb 29th “Leap years” because they “leap” from Feb 28th to Mar 1st.
However, we don’t do it that way… so he or she is dumb.
“Realized” is spelled with an “s” in Great Britain and its colonies/former colonies. Probably also in lands where British English is learned as a second language rather than American English.
Yes, that is what he or she thought was meant by “leap” year; however, the term is coined when fixed holidays such as Christmas and New Years, which would normally advance one week day every year (i.e., Wednesday to Thursday) “leaps” over a day (i.e., Wednesday to Friday).
Using this terminology, would it be correct to assume that a leap year would actually start on February 29th because no fixed holidays actually make that “leap” until after the 29th passes?
I often post in English, even though I’m Hungarian, simply because of the fact that I have several friends from other countries, so if I want to share something with them, I use English. Simple as that.
Yeh exactly its in dutch. and did it ever occur to you they took it off of their friends profile who is maybe english? And they are dutch so thats how it showed up in theirs?
The chile earthquake took 1.6 odd milliseconds off of each day, is anyone here smart enough to comprehend that abstraction? Or how about this one, how many years do we have to have before we have a leap year without the extra day cause the milliseconds cancel it out…
hmmm?
MICROseconds, not milliseconds. There are 1000 microseconds in a millisecond. And the correct figure is 1.26 microseconds per year. Meaning that it would add up to a full day in about 68.6 billion years. To put that into perspective, the dinosaurs died out less than 1/1000 that time ago.
First we have fails by Sony and HOM Furniture. Now we have this fool. Hah.
BTW, here’s the REAL rules of leap year, since a lot of you are getting it wrong.
If a year is divisible by 4, it’s a leap year.
Unless it’s divisible by 100, then it’s not.
Unless it’s divisible by 400, then it is.
Unless it’s divisible by 4000, then it’s not.
Yeah, I know. Dumb rules. Blame Earth for having that stupid partial day rotation. And it just got shorter, thanks to that quake in Chile.
Sorry, man, I actually cannot will myself to argue with this guy. Leaping OVER a day would grammatically make more sense; ergo, it’s not in practice. The guy (that is pointing this out) is also obviously an idiot, so it digs the knife point even deeper, actually.
grats on finally being the smart one. 2100 hasnt happened yet so noone will believe that. but 1900 is finished so people have to believe it. and what, 75% of the people on here are idiots right? me didnt see the PICTURE, not the funny part.
@pete we are screwed anyway
@danna im pretty sure americans are the reason people hate our country. the world would be so much better without them/us. even more so without humans in general. if you can read this, stop fscking up the earth.
Am I the only one not seeing anything?
Yes. You are.
-.-’
Maybe they work for Sony?
Win!
fail on a failbook!
Capitalize fail…
Do you not see anything wrong, or do you not see anything at all as if it isn’t loading for you?
I didn’t see anything at all when I posted the comment, but it eventually loaded for me
You must have been the one who posted this status. Dumbass.
Post does not load in google chrome. Use another browser to see image.
im on google chrome and it loads
yay! you’re stupid!
i cant c the lower lines
FIRST
There is no limit to being an idiot.
Owned
Few seconds off. I give it an F for eFfort
Why do people do this? Most of the time, you only think you’re the first to post, but you aren’t. And even if you actually are the first to comment, I think people could figure that out with out you saying FIRST. Furthermore, no one gives a shit if you are the first to comment.
Second!
Agreed. Its time that retarded habit is broken.
for minimal effort you push random strangers on the internet closer to stroke or heart attack, either stop caring or die faster
wow!!
fuckin idiot
Wow… what do they teach in school now-a-days?!
THE TEST! ALL HAIL F-CAT!
omg, YES! “Explain your answer” is pounded into kids’ heads and eventually you get this. People defending answers that are clearly wrong with info that’s even more wrong.
have you read “Non Campus Mentis? it’s history rewritten by college students (excerpts from midterm and final essays) it’s really great.
Most people cannot admit that they are wrong when they are, so they deny ever being wrong or slam the person that owned them with hate and prejudice. This is a classic example of that.
They also like to resort to ad-hominem attacks and faulty logic as well. Can anyone say environmentalists or conservative Christians?
What do you have against conservative christians?!
We’re only loving our belief.
that was maybe the most hypocritical statement ive ever heard
That was possibly the most hypocritical statement I’ve ever read
The thing with true conservative Christians is they know they are faulty. Faith isn’t always logical, that’s why it’s faith. They don’t make claims to perfection (I’m talking about REAL Christians here, not the holier-than-thou crowd), and ad-hominem just doesn’t work with Christianity. The person that is making the claim is not perfect. However, that does not make the claim false.
For the record, I am a christian and I don’t use bully-tactics when I talk about my beliefs. We are all entitled to our own opinion. If I have to listen to yours, it’s simple courtesy to listen to mine.
Or….they’re just a complete idiot.
You mean like the global warming freaks who use an archaic 120 year old weather monitoring system as their basis behind the theory?
Seriously? Do you just like to go around looking for excuses to say that? WTF does that have to do with anything?
No, I clicked the wrong reply button. It was actually supposed to be to Thomas’ comment about environmentalists above.
It amazing how many internet arguments you can starts with just a simple remark.
Goddamn, what a moron! I can’t believe how stupid some people can be, this guy needs to go back to kindergarten.
what a douchebag
XD made me laugh out loud
ME.. do you really not see anything..?? Go look up a leap year.. and how it works.. and then re-read the post!
lol
Good God, I hope this person does not breed.
Kevin = Firstfail
I hope this person doesn’t breed.
‘ME’..you too
i want these 2 minutes of my life back. this shit ain’t funny.
It took you two minutes to read that? Really? That’s just sad….
Actually, this is one of the few that actually produced an audible laugh from me.
Must be suffering from the same bug as the PS3
Not all years divisible by 4 are leap years. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. Divisible is a tough word to type repeatedly.
haha its also a tough word to read repeatedly!
WTF?
…..? i just forgot what i was gonna put this damned thing messed me up
Not all years divisible by 100 are divisible by 4 — 2100 is divisible by 100, but not divisible by 4, therefore NOT a leap year. All years divisible by 4 ARE leap years, go look up the definition of leap year.
Please tell me you’re joking. 100 is divisible by 4. Therefore all years that are divisible by 100 are also divisible by 4, eg 2100/4=525.
jzimbert is correct on all points, especially the part about writing ‘divisible’ repeatedly.
*facepalm* Everything divisible by 100 is also divisible by 4 because 100 is divisible by 4.
And now we have two, TWO, clueless idiots that can’t count! Ah! Ah! Ahhhhhh!
100 is divisible by 4. Therefore ANYTHING divisible by 100 is also divisible by 4. That includes the year 2100.
2100/4=525. You fail at math. Go look up the definition of “[evenly] divisible by”.
Fail!
100 is divisible by 4, 4 times 25 is 100. So every year that’s divisible by 100 is therefore automatically divisible by 4.
What jzimbert says is true. Years divisible by 100 aren’t leap years unless they’re also divisible by 400.
ps. 4*525=2100
Um, 2100 is divisible by 4. Since 4 is a divisible factor of 100, it is also a divisible factor of 2100.
Try again Psykobabe. 2100/4 = 525, hence 2100 is (evenly) divisible by 4. So it would be a leap year, except that it is divisible by 100 (but not also divisible by 400) so it is not a leap year. So you’re right that 2100 is not a leap year, but wrong that all years divisible by 4 are leap years.
… 2100/4 = 525
I teach math. Psykobabe’s comment made me want to cry. But the flood of replies by people who realize that divisibility is transitive made me feel much better. Thank you.
…2100 *is* a leap year.
You may be thinking every ten years, rather than hundred, in which case you’d be right; 10, 30, 50, 70, and 90 aren’t evenly divisible by 4, so years ending in those numbers are not leap years. The important bit with 2100 is the ’00′.
If the US is having a presidential election, it’s a leap year. If there are Summer Olympics, it’s a leap year.
NOOOOOO Jill, 2100 is NOT a leap year, even though the US (if it survives that long) will be having an election. In fact, that’s the very definition used by Julius Caesar when formulating the Julian Calendar, as the whole world has always revolved around the US.
That rule has always worked in your lifetime, but it only takes 1 “black swan” event to disprove the rule, and that will occur in 2100. See “Gregorian Calendar.”
Of course, if you’re Orthodox you’re still using the Julian calendar in which case have a good leap year in 2100.
Wow, this is an impressive amount of fail in one thread.
jzimbert: [correct statement regarding the Gregorian calendar]
2 other people: [stating they are too dumb to comprehend something people figured out in the 16th century]
Psykobabe: [inane refutation of jzimbert's statement, betraying complete lack of understanding of grade-school mathematics]
6 other people: [math-based refutation of Psyko's statement, still not touching the Gregorian calendar thing though]
3 other people: [have actual working brains]
Yikes! My brain froze on me for that one. You all are right…need to start a site…failmathing for those of us who major in social sciences for a reason — no math involved!
I stand humbled corrected and beg forgiveness for mathing while majoring in sociology or mathing after midterms
Now…how bout talking about the group dynamic of the responders or the population of the readers? THAT I know I can do *lol*
No, leap years happen every 4 years, UNLESS that year is divisible by 100 then it is not a leap year WITH THE EXCEPTION OF if the year is divisible by 400 (note 400 not 4) the it IS a leap year. so 2000 is a leap year, 2100, 2200, 2300 won’t be. but 2400 will be.
this is because a year is 365.24 days long.
uhm no, one year is 365,2425 days long. Wich is why every year divisible by 100 is not a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Simple maths:
365 + 1/4 – 1/100 + 1/400
First you take your penance (spanking with a slide rule), then we can talk fake science
(j/k, I actually find sociology interesting, but I wouldn’t study it if my life depended on it)
woohoo spanking! and someone has to study sociology…otherwise I’d be studying chemistry or physics and blowing stuff up that isn’t supposed to be blown up…your choice
fail big time
I can kinda see where he’s coming from. It makes more sense to call the years that skip Feb 29th “Leap years” because they “leap” from Feb 28th to Mar 1st.
However, we don’t do it that way… so he or she is dumb.
I loved that he spelled “realized” incorrectly. All around genius.
I loved that you’re so ignorant that you don’t realize that that is how they spell it in other parts of the world… especially Europe
“Realised” is the correct spelling in British English. This may come as a shock, but there’s more to the world than the United States.
“Realized” is spelled with an “s” in Great Britain and its colonies/former colonies. Probably also in lands where British English is learned as a second language rather than American English.
you fail.
How do you not realize that what Americans do isn’t always what everyone else does?
it can be both, so it’s not a fail.
Kristen? People like you are the reason the world hates our country.
Good job. You’ve made us all proud.
“Gona be March in -6 minutes”.
So it was 12:06 March 1st when he posted this? That’s a complicated way of saying it.
No, it was 11:54 February 28th when he posted this. Thus “gona be March in -6 minutes.”
The last comment was posted when the post was 10 minutes old making it 12:04 March 1st.
I see what you are getting at now “-6″ negative six minutes. Ignore me. *facepalm*
Fail, fail, and more fail. This is hilarious.
And I fail at spelling, so sue me
Maybe they meant leap year, as in “leap over Febuary 29th”?
Yes, that is what he or she thought was meant by “leap” year; however, the term is coined when fixed holidays such as Christmas and New Years, which would normally advance one week day every year (i.e., Wednesday to Thursday) “leaps” over a day (i.e., Wednesday to Friday).
Using this terminology, would it be correct to assume that a leap year would actually start on February 29th because no fixed holidays actually make that “leap” until after the 29th passes?
Am the only one who is enjoying the fact this person’s facebook is in German but the posts are English?
it’s dutch, and people nowadays are capable of speaking more than one language..
Probably, considering it’s Dutch, not German.
I often post in English, even though I’m Hungarian, simply because of the fact that I have several friends from other countries, so if I want to share something with them, I use English. Simple as that.
Just sayin…this is Dutch,not German
Yeh exactly its in dutch. and did it ever occur to you they took it off of their friends profile who is maybe english? And they are dutch so thats how it showed up in theirs?
My facebook settings are Dutch because I am Dutch, yet most of my statuses are in English because there are some non-Dutch people in my friends list.
That’s just depressing…
The chile earthquake took 1.6 odd milliseconds off of each day, is anyone here smart enough to comprehend that abstraction? Or how about this one, how many years do we have to have before we have a leap year without the extra day cause the milliseconds cancel it out…
hmmm?
About 19.72 billion years. The math is pretty straight forward.
MICROseconds, not milliseconds. There are 1000 microseconds in a millisecond. And the correct figure is 1.26 microseconds per year. Meaning that it would add up to a full day in about 68.6 billion years. To put that into perspective, the dinosaurs died out less than 1/1000 that time ago.
sorry thats 1.6 odd milliseconds off of each YEAR!
Damn Smarch weather!!!!
First we have fails by Sony and HOM Furniture. Now we have this fool. Hah.
BTW, here’s the REAL rules of leap year, since a lot of you are getting it wrong.
If a year is divisible by 4, it’s a leap year.
Unless it’s divisible by 100, then it’s not.
Unless it’s divisible by 400, then it is.
Unless it’s divisible by 4000, then it’s not.
Yeah, I know. Dumb rules. Blame Earth for having that stupid partial day rotation. And it just got shorter, thanks to that quake in Chile.
actually leap years are not every year divisible by 4.
they are every year divisible by 4 except for years that are divisble by 100 unless they are also divisible by 400.
for example, 2100 will not be a leap year because it is divisible by 100.
2000 was a leap year because although it is divisible by 100, it is also divisible by 400
Sorry, man, I actually cannot will myself to argue with this guy. Leaping OVER a day would grammatically make more sense; ergo, it’s not in practice. The guy (that is pointing this out) is also obviously an idiot, so it digs the knife point even deeper, actually.
the human was confused because on a non-leap year you are skipping a day AKA leaping so that sorta does make sence
i love this comment because it captures the crux of what I was gonna say, but in a completely random way
if these ppl are the future of world leaders then we’re really screwed!!
They said it will be March in minus 6 minutes… isn’t that going back in time?
He does have some logic. lol. It “leaps” over the 29th!
i dont know is this is a case of idiocy or just trying to be a troll >.<
Actually, the guy who responded ‘It’s in all years divisible by four’ is also a fail. 1900 is divisible by 4, but it was not a leap year.
grats on finally being the smart one. 2100 hasnt happened yet so noone will believe that. but 1900 is finished so people have to believe it. and what, 75% of the people on here are idiots right? me didnt see the PICTURE, not the funny part.
@pete we are screwed anyway
@danna im pretty sure americans are the reason people hate our country. the world would be so much better without them/us. even more so without humans in general. if you can read this, stop fscking up the earth.
hahahaha he’s got a point!