In real units, folks:
10 1/2 oz. pureed honey mango
3 1/4 oz. sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 cup cream, whipped almost stiff
3/4 cup whole milk
1 egg yolk
By Krowne's logic, Macdonald's[sic] is the best restaurant in the world.
Much as I hate McDonald's (I've not eaten dinner or lunch there in almost a decade), I must admit that it meets most folks' expectations of decent food at a decent price. It is the best restaurant in the world, by that criterion. By my own, of course, it's not--but then, there's no restaurant in town at which I could realistically manage a meal for more than two day's wages, so what do I know?
Wow. And to think that I used to regularly go 50-55 mph over...
It's not as bad as it sounds. There was this stretch of highway between home and church which was marked at 45 mph for construction--but of course there was no construction on Sundays. The normal speed on Colorado highways is 85 mph. Well, it's just another 5 to be at 90--and that's twice the speed limit! Another five, and one is at fifty over; another five and one is doing fifty-five over the nominal limit.
And I never got a ticket, even going past cops--Colorado roads really need to be at a high speed 'cause this ain't Europe, after all...
Oh, the best were the first two Rhincewind ones, back before he got all preachy and was fun to read. They declined in quality to the point that I've stopped reading them, which is sad since the first few showed such great promise.
The point is that with units and number system of the same base, conversion is so trivial you don't need paper.
My point is that actual use of units doesn't involve paper--and it doesn't involve unit conversion. If it did, units better amenable to conversion would have been derived a lot earlier. Most use of units involves simple measuring against a graduated device of one sort or another--both systems are equally good at this. The original (I write original, for it was shared across civilisation at one point--save that the same unit had different values from area to area) system is better at conversion of concrete amounts; the French system is better at conversion of abstract amounts. In real life, of course, concrete conversions predominate. It's just another Enlightenment flim-flam.
Taking a deciliter from a liter is no harder than taking 2.5 deciliters from a liter.
I hate to be rude, but bullshit. To get 1/4 litre from a litre (or a cup from a quart): divide in half, then in half again. To get 1/10 litre from a litre: divide in half, then eyeball in fifths--not. It's impossible to accurately eyeball a fifth of a unit (without aids).
Hey--try dividing a length into halves, and then try doing the same with tenths.
I do agree with your note about a positional number system. Which is why I advocate use of a duodecimal (or dozenal) system: all the advantage of superior ratios, and it works nicely with real measures. Of course French units would be screwed, but that's life.
Metric units are the real units, in science, international standards, and so on.
They're more commonly used, no doubt. But that means nothing: until the mid-nineteenth century the germ theory of disease was considered superstition. The major reasons for adoption of French units have nothing to do with utility and everything to do with novelty.
Obviously, decimal units make more sense than random ratios.
You need to examine your assumptions. Decimals are much more easily converted on paper. But is that the primary operation performed with units? Hardly: the primary operation is actual measuring, and in the course of that measuring dividing and multiplying. It's simplicity itself to cut a quart into cups; it's a pain to divide a litre into a decilitre (in fact, I deny that it's possible by hand without a graduated measure).
Regarding old British money: it actually made a reasonable amount of sense when the pound was an accounting unit and the shilling was a day's wages (then, there were just farthing, ha'penny, penny and shilling as actual coins, with well-defined conversions). It made no sense at all when everyone had a pocket full of pounds.
Our units are now defined using the French ones, but that's not necessary: they pre-date them, after all.
In real units, that's a sea 500-560 miles across (assuming that by 'size' they meant diameter; if they meant area, then 300-350 sq. miles) and 24 fathoms deep.
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Well, I looked at it like this: there are X movies I'd like to see, and I can get them from Hollywood Video for $Y or from Blockbuster for $Z (where Z > Y)--or I can get them from Netflix for $A (where A Also, I don't have cable, so $30/mo. for entertainment ain't too bad.
That doesn't make sense. War is imposiing one's will on another by force (so too is law, but that's another matter for another day). Yes, we'll use more and more mechanical devices, but they will be used to kill the enemy until he submits. Eventually he'll have robots defending him, so our bots will need to kill his bots so they can get to him--but in the end it all boils down to applying sufficient force to one's enemy to cause him to submit.
...here's a bit from a speech given by Michael Crichton...
Sh! Don't you know that celebrities' opinions only matter when they are left-leaning? That Crichton has quite a bit of scientific knowledge is irrelevant: no-one on the right can possibly be correct! Didn't you get the memo?
The thing is, without credit checking companies lenders would need to charge much higher rates. It was not that long ago (only a few centuries) that rates were 20-40%; there was a time when mortgages lasted until death (hence the name). By giving lenders more information, rates can be lower; with competition, rates are lower.
$100 is pennies in the grand scheme of things, and nothing compared to an extra percentage point of interest.
It's an obvious troll, but I still feel the need to respond (more fool me, I suppose).
First off, mankind spent millennia developing the ability to read, write and speak: why limit oneself to grunting and pointing at pictures when one can express oneself in words? The command line is useful.
Secondly, it's not that we like complex things: it's just that we realise that many tasks are inherently complex, or that the payoff is worth it. As an example, I can play my music, read my email, read Usenet, browse the web, chat with my friends on IRC, AIM, MSN & Jabber and edit my documents all within the same program: emacs. Yes, it's complex, but it's worth it.
That was before genomics, I still assume we'd find the results of a modern genomic comparisson embarrassing to our human ego's[sic].
I don't know: show me the ape which has conquered the planet, which has tamed the forces of nature, which thinks, and maybe I'll consider him my equal...
Once again, since like most leftists you seem to be illiterate: Gonzales never advocated torture; he just noted that certain practises do not seem to be legally considered torture. He never said that those practises should be utilised: he just noted (correctly) that they are not legally considered torture.
Your state is just a logical partition of the federal government.
No, my state is a state, just like the UK or France. It happens to have joined into a federation (like the EU) known as the United States, and has given up certain rights (such as negotiating with foreign powers and taxing commerce with others of the United States) but has retained all others.
Among those rights is that of regulating driving on public roads (see anything in the Constitution about them?).
It is also very reasonable. "Do as we ask and you will receive a reward, do not do it and do not receive a reward - your choice."
Except of course that the money has already been taken out of the state via federal income taxes. So it's more like taking a man's wallet, then saying 'if you do what I like, then you get half of your money back; don't and I keep it all--your choice.'
The concept of an identification card is un-American, the concept of a national ID card doubly so.
There shouldn't be identification. Liquor laws are wrong, and so should not be enforced. Banks can identify customers just like companies verify employees: with badges.
Since his pick for Attorney General is a man who advocates the use of torture in certain instances...
Bullshit. Gonzales noted that certain practises are not legally termed torture. That's all: whether or not to utilise them is a different thing entirely, and he did not touch that.
He issued an opinion on the law it stands. Don't like the law--then change it.
That said, just about everyone would advocate the use of torture under certain circumstances. If cutting the finger off of one known-guilty man would get one full details about a plan to set off nukes in London, New York, Washington, Stockholm, Paris and Moscow, I believe that most of us would reach for the pruning shears and feel bad about it later.
First of all, why don't they accept state abbreviations other than the two-letter codes? It's pretty obvious that 'Colo.' means 'Colorado,' and there are still a good number of us who prefer not to use the idiot official codes.
Secondly, it would be really cool if they had cycling directions. Bicycles generally cannot travel on interstates, but often can go where cars cannot; it would be a great thing if a map engine offered cycling routes. To my knowledge no-one does this yet: it could become a killer feature.
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Well, actually you do...
My big problem with KDE (now that the qt licensing issues have been resolved) is that it uses C++ rather than C.
In real units, folks: 10 1/2 oz. pureed honey mango
3 1/4 oz. sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 cup cream, whipped almost stiff
3/4 cup whole milk
1 egg yolk
Much as I hate McDonald's (I've not eaten dinner or lunch there in almost a decade), I must admit that it meets most folks' expectations of decent food at a decent price. It is the best restaurant in the world, by that criterion. By my own, of course, it's not--but then, there's no restaurant in town at which I could realistically manage a meal for more than two day's wages, so what do I know?
It's not as bad as it sounds. There was this stretch of highway between home and church which was marked at 45 mph for construction--but of course there was no construction on Sundays. The normal speed on Colorado highways is 85 mph. Well, it's just another 5 to be at 90--and that's twice the speed limit! Another five, and one is at fifty over; another five and one is doing fifty-five over the nominal limit.
And I never got a ticket, even going past cops--Colorado roads really need to be at a high speed 'cause this ain't Europe, after all...
Oh, the best were the first two Rhincewind ones, back before he got all preachy and was fun to read. They declined in quality to the point that I've stopped reading them, which is sad since the first few showed such great promise.
My point is that actual use of units doesn't involve paper--and it doesn't involve unit conversion. If it did, units better amenable to conversion would have been derived a lot earlier. Most use of units involves simple measuring against a graduated device of one sort or another--both systems are equally good at this. The original (I write original, for it was shared across civilisation at one point--save that the same unit had different values from area to area) system is better at conversion of concrete amounts; the French system is better at conversion of abstract amounts. In real life, of course, concrete conversions predominate. It's just another Enlightenment flim-flam. Taking a deciliter from a liter is no harder than taking 2.5 deciliters from a liter.
I hate to be rude, but bullshit. To get 1/4 litre from a litre (or a cup from a quart): divide in half, then in half again. To get 1/10 litre from a litre: divide in half, then eyeball in fifths--not. It's impossible to accurately eyeball a fifth of a unit (without aids).
I do agree with your note about a positional number system. Which is why I advocate use of a duodecimal (or dozenal) system: all the advantage of superior ratios, and it works nicely with real measures. Of course French units would be screwed, but that's life.
They're more commonly used, no doubt. But that means nothing: until the mid-nineteenth century the germ theory of disease was considered superstition. The major reasons for adoption of French units have nothing to do with utility and everything to do with novelty.
Obviously, decimal units make more sense than random ratios.
You need to examine your assumptions. Decimals are much more easily converted on paper. But is that the primary operation performed with units? Hardly: the primary operation is actual measuring, and in the course of that measuring dividing and multiplying. It's simplicity itself to cut a quart into cups; it's a pain to divide a litre into a decilitre (in fact, I deny that it's possible by hand without a graduated measure).
Regarding old British money: it actually made a reasonable amount of sense when the pound was an accounting unit and the shilling was a day's wages (then, there were just farthing, ha'penny, penny and shilling as actual coins, with well-defined conversions). It made no sense at all when everyone had a pocket full of pounds.
Our units are now defined using the French ones, but that's not necessary: they pre-date them, after all.
This service has been brought to you by GNU units.
Well, I looked at it like this: there are X movies I'd like to see, and I can get them from Hollywood Video for $Y or from Blockbuster for $Z (where Z > Y)--or I can get them from Netflix for $A (where A Also, I don't have cable, so $30/mo. for entertainment ain't too bad.
That doesn't make sense. War is imposiing one's will on another by force (so too is law, but that's another matter for another day). Yes, we'll use more and more mechanical devices, but they will be used to kill the enemy until he submits. Eventually he'll have robots defending him, so our bots will need to kill his bots so they can get to him--but in the end it all boils down to applying sufficient force to one's enemy to cause him to submit.
As a frequent user of lynx, links and friends, I appreciate that consideration. With CSS the menu can be put anywhere for users of graphical browsers.
Sh! Don't you know that celebrities' opinions only matter when they are left-leaning? That Crichton has quite a bit of scientific knowledge is irrelevant: no-one on the right can possibly be correct! Didn't you get the memo?
$100 is pennies in the grand scheme of things, and nothing compared to an extra percentage point of interest.
First off, mankind spent millennia developing the ability to read, write and speak: why limit oneself to grunting and pointing at pictures when one can express oneself in words? The command line is useful.
Secondly, it's not that we like complex things: it's just that we realise that many tasks are inherently complex, or that the payoff is worth it. As an example, I can play my music, read my email, read Usenet, browse the web, chat with my friends on IRC, AIM, MSN & Jabber and edit my documents all within the same program: emacs. Yes, it's complex, but it's worth it.
I don't doubt that you're correct, but ISTR that games grossed more revenue than movies last year--they're obviously a major market.
I don't know: show me the ape which has conquered the planet, which has tamed the forces of nature, which thinks, and maybe I'll consider him my equal...
Once again, since like most leftists you seem to be illiterate: Gonzales never advocated torture; he just noted that certain practises do not seem to be legally considered torture. He never said that those practises should be utilised: he just noted (correctly) that they are not legally considered torture.
Does it really? And yet it fought to subjugate those who did actually secede. Now that's the height of hypocrisy...
No, my state is a state, just like the UK or France. It happens to have joined into a federation (like the EU) known as the United States, and has given up certain rights (such as negotiating with foreign powers and taxing commerce with others of the United States) but has retained all others.
Among those rights is that of regulating driving on public roads (see anything in the Constitution about them?).
Illegal != unsafe. In most instances, traffic laws are absurdities passed more as sops to bluestockings than as actualy safety measures.
Except of course that the money has already been taken out of the state via federal income taxes. So it's more like taking a man's wallet, then saying 'if you do what I like, then you get half of your money back; don't and I keep it all--your choice.'
The concept of an identification card is un-American, the concept of a national ID card doubly so.
There shouldn't be identification. Liquor laws are wrong, and so should not be enforced. Banks can identify customers just like companies verify employees: with badges.
Bullshit. Gonzales noted that certain practises are not legally termed torture. That's all: whether or not to utilise them is a different thing entirely, and he did not touch that.
He issued an opinion on the law it stands. Don't like the law--then change it.
That said, just about everyone would advocate the use of torture under certain circumstances. If cutting the finger off of one known-guilty man would get one full details about a plan to set off nukes in London, New York, Washington, Stockholm, Paris and Moscow, I believe that most of us would reach for the pruning shears and feel bad about it later.
Well, the French would invade, but their army's visiting his aunt this weekend.
Secondly, it would be really cool if they had cycling directions. Bicycles generally cannot travel on interstates, but often can go where cars cannot; it would be a great thing if a map engine offered cycling routes. To my knowledge no-one does this yet: it could become a killer feature.