I've found there's two things people don't understand about computers, 0 and 1.
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I've found there's two things people don't understand about computers, 0 and 1.
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Just a video for your amusement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hid7EJkwDNk
PS: Shameless plug at the end, and -Yes, the guy is Irish.
Quote from an expat friend of mine:
-"Anger and resentment"? - MY thoughts on THAT?
-Well, I'm Irish. It's our bloody national sport!"
This argument will keep raging until the entire world kneel down before statues of Stalin and all sanity has been annihilated.
It does not matter what system you use as long as everybody doing something to work on a project ALL use the same standards. Growing up with Imperial, having the country change to metric at age 9 I had to go through school and sit all exams including Trade exams in both.
Some things are just quicker and faster using Imperial, other times metric is easier.
As there is a huge amount of old stuff in the world which occasionally has to be worked on is reason enough to be conversant in both. This Irish guy might be of the bog variety, certainly dumbed down by being raised with only metrickery.
Here is some good information that helps explain a few things that you will never be taught in school today: Weights, Measures and Volumes of the Ancient Mediterranean
I don't know this for a fact but in my musings on the origin of the phrase I've come to the opinion that the phrase "Hear, Hear!" likely is a misquote of the original phrase, "Hear here!" which means to me to call attention to something someone has said and it fits with its common usage in conversation.
And now back to your regularly scheduled program.
Nope, it's "Hear, hear"; location, as in 'here', has nothing to do with it.
https://whatis.techtarget.com/featur...e-or-hear-hear
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/here-here-vs-hear-hear/
FWIW: https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...=refridgerator
" A refrigerator keeps items in a state of frige, a word that has yet to be assigned a logical definition.
A refridgerator keeps items fridged and may continuously refridge this items, a well logical word."
How big is big enough? Ask Nancy P for guidance. She's an expert while remainder of us wonder what's up...https://tinyurl.com/y75dlsjw
Lets get real about units! How many Rhode Islands is it in area?
One Rhode Island is the size of the fires in California...
Now the California wildfires are as big as the Grand Canyon, however big that is...
So, intent was to say even tiny Rhode island, at 37 miles wide, most wouldn't want to walk that....but this is even better.
https://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=12
Heck man - Australia's biggest cattle station (ranch in your speak) is 5,850,000 acres.
How many Rhode Islands is that ??
Most of the Lower 48 (and almost all of Mexico) are closer to some part of Texas than the farthest points in Texas are from each other:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...itself/360433/ I can attest to this, driving across Texas in a U-Haul that's pretty much limited to 55 MPH is a "You have died of dysentery" 'Oregon Trail' kind of experience. :-)
(I'll add there were two cats in the cab along with me and my wife....two cats that were not happy with us all the way. And we were towing the car on a dolly so we couldn't back up. Every place we entered had to be reconnoitered on foot to ensure we could get out...)
Easy! Sort of...just substitute known square miles for percentage thereof at https://rigea.org/2013/05/11/how-many-rhode-islands/
No need to thank me, we all hand out rabbit holes like they do in Rhode Island...
Now the fires in California are the size of Delaware...
I like this one. Conceptually similar to the small/big refrigerator measurement, but not a meme, a real example. Original tweet from the San Miguel Sheriff twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/sheriffalert/sta...81862244749315
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...ll_boulder.jpg
Hybrid units (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric...s#Hybrid_units):
"Some measurements are reported in units derived from both customary and metric units.
For example:
Heat rate from a power plant: BTU/kWh.
Federal automobile exhaust emission standards: grams per mile.
Caffeine in beverages: milligrams per (fluid) ounce.
A standard method for sizing tires combines millimeters for overall width and inches for the rim diameter on which they fit.
In lighting, light bulbs use eighths of an inch for bulb diameter and full inches for fluorescent tube lengths,
while the socket is always in millimeters (for example, the standard "medium Edison screw" is E24).
On recently introduced Christmas lights, however, millimeters are often used with small globe-shaped bulbs (G30 and G40),
and with miniature LED sets, where the standard T1¾ (7⁄32-inch tube) ones are sometimes called M5 (5 mm miniature; not to be confused with M5 thread).
One among many examples is in Table 8, chapter 9, of the National Electrical Code Handbook (8th ed.),
where resistance of conductors per unit length is given in ohms per thousand feet.
Other units are based on customary units, but use power-of-ten factors and metric prefixes.
For example, distance to target for a U.S. submarine is expressed in kiloyards (kyd) rather than some combination of miles, yards, and feet.
Telephone transmission line length and loop distances are measured in kilofeet.
In some fields of civil engineering (especially structural engineering), and architecture, large loads and forces
(such as the weight of a building or the amount of load applied to a column) are measured in kips
(kilopounds or 1000 pounds-force - NOT kiloinches/ sec!)
instead of short tons-force (2000 pounds-force), which are used in virtually all other non-metric industries in the United States,
as well as in common usage among the public, when dealing with large values of force."
All I want to know is if it bigger than a bread box...
There are some die hards in the UK who will not relinquish the good old imperial measurements, a pint of milk, a pint of beer, spirits measured in 1/8 gill and a distance of miles at of speed at mph. But be warned don’t try selling a pound of bananas in Newcastle/Sunderland the local authorities will hound you to death
(Actual case) BBC NEWS | UK | England | Wear | Metric martyr market trader dies.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist - but he suddenly died ? - The lengths countries leaders will go to. You would think we lived in Russia, just saying - no racial implication intended.
What are you guys in the wild west going to do when kids are banned from having cap guns and computer games because they are linked to slavery and racial hatred. They are either shooting pimps and hookers, Germans, zombies, Red Indians and cow boys or calories in the case of candy crush. What is this world coming to? A mega don.
For F's sake stop this pointless debate keep the inch, stand up like a man and don’t let this Europhile cack eat America as well.
you know what happened in the 60s when a space craft crashed due to a mix up in measurements, everyone was fine using both until someone tried to convert everyone - Strange that very shortly after they put a man on the moon - again just saying (light the blue touch paper).
Just remember that the collection of European nations is the Euronation - I’m thinking they are taking the urine.
We have always been different from each other, if you used a measurement system to build house in the US compared to Africa the measurements would be miles apart literally. Spelt differently for a start - we have managed for millennia to build things in different scale and sell them to each other, what is this ambition of some in the US to go metric (Europhiles). A measurement that is no longer socially acceptable is the use of chains, don’t start that again. Or Bushels, **** the Me2 movement will think you are talking of under their dresses.
These are strange times my friends.
Thanks for clarifications, and also for the link on the "Metric Martyrs": Truly amazing reading IMHO.
Seems like the advocacy group dissolved 2017, after the Brexit Vote?
WayBack Machine with its Thorburn tributes:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071224...age.aspx?id=36
I don't consider myself being a conspiracy theorist either, but:
-Could we perhaps after the upcoming New Year assume yet another Iron Curtain being descended across the Continent,
but this time from Unst in the North Sea to Jersey in the English Channel, and around Gibraltar?
Test for UK citizens on what actions to take regarding the new rules: https://www.gov.uk/transition
It’s a LARGE boulder for a road, but a SMALL boulder for a mountain!
Classic Euro overreach. What stands out to me; regarding links offered by MeJasonT and DIYSwede, in posts 69 & 70, is the arrogant nature of government. Link states Mr. Thoburn had English and metric scales available, customers were charged accordingly [and equally] to their preference. That higher courts ruled appeals 'inadmissible', epitomizes gall and authoritarian mindset; "No, we'd thought this out with perfect clarity and forethought". Which apparently is quite not the case.
Somehow identical but opposite is constant re-interpretation we [US] see, regarding "Shall not be infringed". I'd say their, our framers, King's English is perfectly clear.
Ummm.... that was 1999.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...ml%3f_amp=true
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Not again, when will they ever learn.
I forgot about this one
Phil, is it big boulder in little creek without a paddle somewhere near little neck.
Oh i love the old tribal names up state.
There are those among us who like to hunt out American history and absorb it when we are traveling through reservations. Now there’s a case for BLM.
You can feel the real spirit of the land in the Catskills and even Mohonk has a real spiritual feel despite the capitalist environment playground for the rich.
My Aunt Audrey used to often get Bears wandering into her garden in Margaretville. Now Audrey was a character, she went over to the states during the Second World War. She worked for naval intelligence and even got to meet Hitler before the war when we were trying to talk him out of invading Poland. She was also involved in the Nuremburg trials after the war. She married a top New York Hairdresser (divorced) and later married a GI. A quintessential English aristocrat at heart, the lady was absolutely fascinating and so was Tony her 2nd husband. In the early days she lived in Flushing NY, that’s when my partner Debbie used to visit. She started going over around the time of the first attempt to bring down the Twin Towers, A guy had done a tight rope walk between them at some point as well. Debbie later sold garments in New York as a fashion designer. Happy days.
Give me one good reason to go back to NY and I’m on the first available flight. Any takers for an adult apprentice machinist.
Another appliance measurement, but this time not just one.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...g_machines.jpg
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/41actionnews/sta...71610876682240
Cleary was written by a male! Six or seven washing machines is about the size of the van next to sinkhole, but the sinkhole is actually the size of a small car 😉 😜
Wow, I didn't know there was a standard washing machine. How many scall bananas are they?
(also some wag has started making standardized scale bananas, https://hackaday.com/2014/11/17/sand...e-is-so-metal/ )
Nah,since when does a male know what a washing machine looks like����;)