I come from New Zealand, which is a British Commonwealth country. We drive on the left side of the road. (it dates back to the days (and knights) of old, when a rider would want to meet an approaching rider on his right side where he could use his sword (or lance) if necessary.
And when I learned to drive, it was at a quarter to 3, and the left foot was for the clutch.
FWIW I owned amiga computehttp://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/03/22/1241200/amiga-returns-with-lackluster-linux-powered-mini-pc#r(s) from July 86 until July 02 (At which point I moved to the US, so sold them or gave them away.
You left out New Zealand. When the US antartic program was run by the Navy, the support was based in Christchurch. (and McMurdo is close to Scott base, in the part of the continent that is claimed by NZ - known as The Ross Dependency
Thats Sir Edmund Hilary (and Tenzing Norgay) who climbed Everest first
And as far as surviving such a jump, I think he wants to be in good health afterwards - since theres a good chance that he could be alive, but paralzed due to the injuries suffered.which would not be much fun.
Of course if he doesn't make it he is guarranteed the Darwin award anyway
Back in the days of Ben Franklin DST may have saved some candles, oil (for lamps) or gas. In the early 20th century including both wars It saved electricity. In the 21st century however its just stupid.
These days the majority of electricity is used for many other purposes besides lighting. The change to non-incandescent bulbs makes a significant power saving however.
Its no longer a 9-5 world. Many facilities have to operate 24 hours a day.
I work night shift (you insensitive clods)
In fall I end up having to work a 9 hr shift. Last night I had a 7 hr shift
The only good thing was it meant that I could eat breakfast since I got home before sunrise. March 2-20th is the Month of the Fast in the religion I follow.
The average person probably wastes more than an hour in changing the clocks. Automatic setting of clocks (apart from computers and other connected devices that can have the software upgraded) didn't work because the govt changed the date DST starts and ends
Since it is election year, which candidates at a State or National level are in favor of repealing DST ?
"The chief problem with the plate-tectonics analogy is that privacy isn't a matter of "incidents", but a cultural issue that evolves over a long time."
Sorry to disillusion you, but plate tectonics is also over a very long time - hundreds of millions of years - which is why some of the "Creationists" don't believe in it.
"Generally speaking, an earthquake just happens -- there's an enormous rumble, things fall over, and then it's all over."
In a major eathquake there are often aftershocks - sometimes only1 magnitude less than the original event - which can topple the already damaged buildings.
Anyway I heard that the scale they use for earthquakes is no longer the Richter scale, (but something similar in magnitude for all but the largest quakes. And how many people are familiar with the magnitude of earthquakes anyway. (unless you live in CA (or some other place that does have tremors - I was born and raised in NZ and have felt magnitude 5 and 6 quakes.
"The longest trip one can make in Norway looks to be not much more than 900 miles. Norway is also a narrow country hugging a coastline"
However Norway does have some terrain features called 'hills' that are not found in the USA. Thus roads and rail can't go in straight lines.
(I am not from Norway but the country I come from also has hills, valleys and fiords (but they are called Sounds, and don't have blue parrots pining for them.
Mass transit is better suited to the higher population densities of European cities, much of the USA is too spread out.
Cycling doesn't work in some parts of USA due to weather extremes. You can't bike when its 40 below zero wind chill, or on snow and ice. (and parts of the south are too hot.)
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Wouldn't Godwins Law cover that?
that nano means 10^-9
and this new standard is not 1 billionth of the size of the original SIM
I come from New Zealand, which is a British Commonwealth country. We drive on the left side of the road.
(it dates back to the days (and knights) of old, when a rider would want to meet an approaching rider on his right side where he could use his sword (or lance) if necessary.
And when I learned to drive, it was at a quarter to 3, and the left foot was for the clutch.
You Insensitive clod
So what makes this machine an Amiga?
FWIW I owned amiga computehttp://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/03/22/1241200/amiga-returns-with-lackluster-linux-powered-mini-pc#r(s) from July 86 until July 02 (At which point I moved to the US, so sold them or gave them away.
And even if you had a total bionic skeleton, you couldn't lift a truck up with on had without falling over. (Unless you weigh a few tons)
You left out New Zealand. When the US antartic program was run by the Navy, the support was based in Christchurch.
(and McMurdo is close to Scott base, in the part of the continent that is claimed by NZ - known as The Ross Dependency
Thats Sir Edmund Hilary (and Tenzing Norgay) who climbed Everest first
And as far as surviving such a jump, I think he wants to be in good health afterwards - since theres a good chance that he could be alive, but paralzed due to the injuries suffered.which would not be much fun.
Of course if he doesn't make it he is guarranteed the Darwin award anyway
I don't care if they pronounce it wrong, as long as its spelt Aluminium
Anyway how can you make transparent Aluminium out of Carbon ?
Building a General Products #2 hull on atom at a time is going to take a while.
I upgraded my MP3s to AFLAC - not only do I get a better sound, but if I am off work for injury, I get paid cash to buy groceries
If the accuracy is defined as fractions of a second over billion years - how do they know its going to last a billion years
I think that a laser guided bullet would be more likely to work given that GPS targeting is not so good at hitting moving targets.
Yeah, sounds like a Tau of Babel to me
Some of us have to work on (some) Sundays anyway, so that wouldn't make much difference.
I'd like to propose a new time unit called the Fortnight , being 2 weeks, and you could have a 14 day work schedule.
(and get paid once every fortnight too.)
(America should love his concept since its not metric and wasn't invented by the French)
Back in the days of Ben Franklin DST may have saved some candles, oil (for lamps) or gas.
In the early 20th century including both wars It saved electricity.
In the 21st century however its just stupid.
These days the majority of electricity is used for many other purposes besides lighting. The change to non-incandescent bulbs makes a significant power saving however.
Its no longer a 9-5 world. Many facilities have to operate 24 hours a day.
I work night shift (you insensitive clods)
In fall I end up having to work a 9 hr shift.
Last night I had a 7 hr shift
The only good thing was it meant that I could eat breakfast since I got home before sunrise. March 2-20th is the Month of the Fast in the religion I follow.
The average person probably wastes more than an hour in changing the clocks. Automatic setting of clocks (apart from computers and other connected devices that can have the software upgraded) didn't work because the govt changed the date DST starts and ends
Since it is election year, which candidates at a State or National level are in favor of repealing DST ?
"The chief problem with the plate-tectonics analogy is that privacy isn't a matter of "incidents", but a cultural issue that evolves over a long time."
Sorry to disillusion you, but plate tectonics is also over a very long time - hundreds of millions of years - which is why some of the "Creationists" don't believe in it.
"Generally speaking, an earthquake just happens -- there's an enormous rumble, things fall over, and then it's all over."
In a major eathquake there are often aftershocks - sometimes only1 magnitude less than the original event - which can topple the already damaged buildings.
"Hijacking a well known metric"
This is America - we don't use metrics.
Anyway I heard that the scale they use for earthquakes is no longer the Richter scale, (but something similar in magnitude for all but the largest quakes. And how many people are familiar with the magnitude of earthquakes anyway. (unless you live in CA (or some other place that does have tremors - I was born and raised in NZ and have felt magnitude 5 and 6 quakes.
By 1983 I had 2 computers, but they each had cost about 20% of my annual gross income
"The longest trip one can make in Norway looks to be not much more than 900 miles. Norway is also a narrow country hugging a coastline"
However Norway does have some terrain features called 'hills' that are not found in the USA. Thus roads and rail can't go in straight lines.
(I am not from Norway but the country I come from also has hills, valleys and fiords (but they are called Sounds, and don't have blue parrots pining for them.
Mass transit is better suited to the higher population densities of European cities, much of the USA is too spread out.
Cycling doesn't work in some parts of USA due to weather extremes. You can't bike when its 40 below zero wind chill, or on snow and ice.
(and parts of the south are too hot.)
Will it also save you 15% on your car insurance?
pining for the fiords
"Hate to tell you, but that rocket scientist job with NASA requires a bit more."
I think the rocket scientists will have to move to China if they want to keep doibng rocket science. NASA won't exist much longer.
The Doctor will find a cure
Matt Smith that is. I'd guess that being from Galifrey he is probably immune.
Riding a motorbike downhill, in gear and then let the clutch out...
Of course these days most come with electric start...