Free 186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook:  
Get tool plans

User Tag List

Page 4 of 60 FirstFirst 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 54 ... LastLast
Results 31 to 40 of 596

Thread: Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

  1. #31
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,506
    Thanks
    362
    Thanked 6,533 Times in 2,149 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by FEM2008 View Post
    @Marv
    I learned doing sq.roots the old fashioned way and have since purged it out if my memory as well. However, my son showed me how to do it using Newton's method at age 12. So, they're not all getting dumber! But then, he's a lot smarter than I ever was; has won 35 awards and 2 international tournaments in robotics, 5 science olympiad awards, and was in Forbes magazine by age 13 !!
    Of course, there will always be exceptions, but mankind depends on the ability of the majority in order to move forward. When the majority can no longer understand the technology in which they live nor have the language and mathematics skills to modify it creatively, the downward slide will engulf the exceptions.

    We currently live in a society where the makers of automotive windshield sunshades find it necessary to apply a label that tells the driver to remove it before driving. It's not a slide; it's a lahar and it's overtaking us.

    186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Experience is always far worse than pessimism

  2. The Following User Says Thank You to mklotz For This Useful Post:

    Toolmaker51 (Aug 18, 2020)

  3. #32
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,506
    Thanks
    362
    Thanked 6,533 Times in 2,149 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by Elizabeth Greene View Post
    Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.
    They know that, if the USA actually started using the metric system, they would have TWO measurement systems they don't understand.

    2,000+ Tool Plans
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Experience is always far worse than pessimism

  4. #33
    Supporting Member Crusty's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2019
    Location
    Dry Gulch, Tx
    Posts
    749
    Thanks
    220
    Thanked 854 Times in 325 Posts

    Crusty's Tools
    They have to add those stupid labels so that they have a positive defense in any lawsuit from opportunists looking for a payout.

    Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart-dont-dumb.jpg
    If you can't make it precise make it adjustable.

  5. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Crusty For This Useful Post:

    toeless joe (Aug 22, 2020), Toolmaker51 (Aug 18, 2020)

  6. #34
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,506
    Thanks
    362
    Thanked 6,533 Times in 2,149 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
    They have to add those stupid labels so that they have a positive defense in any lawsuit from opportunists looking for a payout.
    The fact that the shade manufacturer can be sued for accidents caused by driving with the shade in place is a clear demonstration of the failed average intelligence. In an educated society, such crap wouldn't be considered; the case would be thrown out of court.
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Experience is always far worse than pessimism

  7. #35
    Supporting Member Crusty's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2019
    Location
    Dry Gulch, Tx
    Posts
    749
    Thanks
    220
    Thanked 854 Times in 325 Posts

    Crusty's Tools
    I don't place the blame for that on people in general, despite their apparent reptilian understanding, but rather on the legal system. The legal system, designed by and for lawyers, was created to entangle people so that they may be fleeced for the benefit of lawyers, and they've made incremental progress over the years using the government to force their system onto potentially everyone. It's all about taking universally understood concepts and spinning them into something which can be exploited for financial gain.

    Product liability laws come from this system, where the phrase "reasonable and prudent" is a big money maker. It's a grand scam in which justice is only an occasional by-product.


    E.G. "That depends on what your definition of "is" is. WJ Clinton
    If you can't make it precise make it adjustable.

  8. The Following User Says Thank You to Crusty For This Useful Post:

    Toolmaker51 (Aug 18, 2020)

  9. #36
    Supporting Member Frank S's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    Peacock TX
    Posts
    11,596
    Thanks
    2,161
    Thanked 9,083 Times in 4,344 Posts

    Frank S's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    The fact that the shade manufacturer can be sued for accidents caused by driving with the shade in place is a clear demonstration of the failed average intelligence. In an educated society, such crap wouldn't be considered; the case would be thrown out of court.
    Why do you think new cars have collision avoidance braking and lane wandering sensors, now days? and automatic parallel parking or controlled trailer backing. Heck people have to have an app on their phone to start their cars, tell them when they might be running low on gas and the phone has to interface with the vehicle at all times so it will know where to go to get a tire aired up or the car itself is a roving wifi connected to the web at all times
    Never try to tell me it can't be done
    When I have to paint I use KBS products

  10. The Following User Says Thank You to Frank S For This Useful Post:

    Toolmaker51 (Aug 18, 2020)

  11. #37
    Supporting Member hemmjo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Posts
    2,638
    Thanks
    248
    Thanked 1,507 Times in 851 Posts

    hemmjo's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
    I don't place the blame for that on people in general, despite their apparent reptilian understanding, but rather on the legal system. The legal system, designed by and for lawyers, was created to entangle people so that they may be fleeced for the benefit of lawyers, and they've made incremental progress over the years using the government to force their system onto potentially everyone. It's all about taking universally understood concepts and spinning them into something which can be exploited for financial gain.

    Product liability laws come from this system, where the phrase "reasonable and prudent" is a big money maker. It's a grand scam in which justice is only an occasional by-product.


    E.G. "That depends on what your definition of "is" is. WJ Clinton
    The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!

  12. #38
    Supporting Member Crusty's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2019
    Location
    Dry Gulch, Tx
    Posts
    749
    Thanks
    220
    Thanked 854 Times in 325 Posts

    Crusty's Tools
    That's why and how they were able force the legal system onto everyone. Like I said, it's a grand scam and it's been going on for many years.
    If you can't make it precise make it adjustable.

  13. #39
    Supporting Member Toolmaker51's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2016
    Location
    Midwest USA
    Posts
    5,334
    Thanks
    7,044
    Thanked 3,004 Times in 1,899 Posts

    Toolmaker51's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
    The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!
    Of course; they have gamed their own system [converting justice and civil law into legal manipulations], so politics is just another avenue straight to Agendaville.

    I've said this forever; most [maybe all] the inequities we suffer as citizens are traceable to lawyers, lobbyists and politicians. I don't single out the left broadly, yet far left certainly is the keystone. Added detail, lawyers have only studied the law, attorneys pass bar examinations.

    For example; they'll inform you otherwise about that hierarchy; I reply with one or another challenge but favorite is, "how many interpretations are there to Shall Not Be Infringed...". They'll argue meaning of militia, I remind them of Minute Man statue and his pose, in Concord, Mass., even name implies differently then standing army.
    Stops them every time.
    Sincerely,
    Toolmaker51
    ...we'll learn more by wandering than searching...

  14. #40
    12L14's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2017
    Posts
    120
    Thanks
    134
    Thanked 51 Times in 35 Posts

    12L14's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
    The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!
    And now imagine place where most of those officials are engineers(lets say F. W. Taylor type smart scumbags).

    Sounds like science fiction?

    Think again.

    Commie china, east Germany and(to some extension) soviet union are/were "good" examples of such places...

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •