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Instead it’s to get you thinking of the long term future.
The Wikipedia article does say that is the goal of the Long Now Foundation, but not how the leading 0 is related.
Charlemagne was crowned in 800 AD, not in 0800 or 00800.
Pompeii was destroyed by the Vesuvius in 79 AD, not 079 or 0079 or 00079.
The battle of the Teutoburg Forest was in 9 AD, not 09, 009, 0009 or 00009.
Also why stop at 5 digits while you're being ridiculous?
Church of the Long Now wins again.
I'm happy to expand for others; regardless of my feelings on the matter the Long Now use of a leading zero creates questions and engagement, thus spreading their message under the mantra of "there's no such thing as bad press" | "get the public talking".
It's an Advertising 101 strategy and not at all idiotic save perhaps at the surface of first exposure.
and some of us say things like 'thats idiotic because thats 7000 years away'
these are two different kinds of discourse, and this website is only for one of them
The evidence for your behavior being distracting/provocative is right here in this thread.
to you too i ask: which of these two kinds of discourse are you engaging in right now?
if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that
your comment purports to be concerned with the objective qualities of mine: 'pointless', 'distracting', 'provocative'. but actually all of these terms are attempts to recast your subjective preferences as objective realities; all you're really writing about is how you feel when you read my comments. the implicit premise here is that other people ought to be writing their comments in order to satisfy your preferences
why? what makes you so admirable? what reason does anyone in the world have to value your opinion or consider your preferences important? if you want comments written to satisfy your preferences, write them yourself
as far as i can tell, like 38, gruturo, and spencerflem, you're just a person who harasses strangers on internet fora if you think they talk funny, then blames your own behavior on them
you want to know what i feel?
because it sure isn't admiration and eagerness to satisfy you
it's contempt
When are leading zeros in front of numbers particularly useful? Even in fixed column formats they're almost always left blank.
if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that
dude
But I also know that it is kragen commenting without looking at the header :)
I suppose everyone has their own quirks.