You don't change the serving to match the measurement, luddite. Wine is still served by the glass and whisky by the measure, and it hasn't adversely affected pubs other than having to put up signs saying exactly how many mls are in a "glass". All they'd need to do is tack up and extra bit saying that a "pint" was in fact declared by the 2003 Foobar Act to be x millilitres.
(I should note that the whisky thing has in fact caused outrage, but we all need exceptions.:) )
Chalk up one surprised Brit. Seriously, there should be a quick-and-easy "Read and understand this before you go telling Americans they don't know anything about history" guide up there somewhere.
I'd wager that most everyone thinks of distance in miles, unless you're from a part of the country which has started painting kilometres onto roadsigns.
Eventually they're going to have to start doing that. And we're halfway there with the pub thing, although you still order a pint at the bar volume is measured in ml on the sides of bottles and cans so you can take measurement from that (and I've seen people arguing at a bar to get Reef instead of Smirnoff Ice because you get more mls per bottle).
That's beside the point. If you assume the foot to be a standard measurement (it's not as if the metre is any less arbitrary in principle), then if you take other measurements in bases of ten around your standard then you are indeed "metric in everything but name".
Further to that, everyone else spells it "metre". Some people just have to be different.:)
I still measure heights in Imperial. I find it easier on the brain (especially when drunk) to take everything as a deviation from six feet than to try and remember a generic height in Metric and compare that way.
"Jealous"? Grow up. Nobody envies schoolyard bullies. And goddamnit I hate making US == bullies comparisons, but it's nowhere near as infantile as the typical defensive scrawl that normally forces it out of me.
It has been quite a while since I've heard any Frenchman use "my country could kick your country's ass" as a debating point. Whether meant as a self-deprecating jibe at one's own nationalistic arrogance or actually meant in all seriousness, almost every international policy argument one has with a bative of the United States manages to drag that one out eventually. It's almost getting to the point of needing an extension to Godwin's Law.
Wrong. Drivers are accountable and have a fairly high barrier to entry (they need at least a car, and unlike gutless Interweb worms will usually also have insurance and a license). Hardly an appropriate comparison.
As for preventing such devices for safety reasons - hardly likely when you look at the ever-increasing number of distracting gadgets that you can use in the car these days. The best that can be hoped is that such devices are prohibitively expensive given windshield regulations and the like, and that we're all being driven around by robots by the time they get cheap enough to come as standard on non-BMWs.
Quite. And then there's the usual argument that in actual fact eh didn't steal your toaster ove, he went into your toaster oven shop and replicated a toaster oven so he wouldn't have to pay for it. Yadda yadda.
Never mind that shooting people is fucking gay anyway, obviously. *has noticed his karma is a bit too high to get many mod points these days*
You can distribute source which only compiles on Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler, even though it isn't possible to recreate the binary without using proprietary pieces of software. You can redistribute the source to Quake, even though you can't actually get Quake out of it unless you already have the proprietary map and texture files.
The point is that the eventual outcome is the same: without additional proprietary data, it will eventually be unable to recreate a given binary from the given source. However the precedents all point to this being acceptable under the conditions being presented.
I think you meant not just because it loads fast on a 56K. The mere thought of using another search engine while on dial-up chills my blood. I'd wager that a fair few Googlers out there use it primarily because it takes zero seconds to finish loading.
if we kill a ton of inocent people, even if we find the weapons, we will be on the worlds shit list
if there are no weapons and the Iraqis are pissed at us for some other reason or we lose the peace, we will be on the worlds shit list...
You're already on the world's shitlist. As was so eloquently put by your sovereign leader, everyone's either with you or against you. Unless you find ten ICBMs marked "to Europe" made entirely out of baby heads, you're going to remain on the shitlists of all those who aren't already waving your flags. The only jingoists who are likely to swing the other way are those who come back from the Gulf missing limbs.
How does this make anything better? Note that the pathetic vageness of my whining has been carefully tuned to match that of your Spielberg-esque case for war.
I do, because he promised to do so. When he invaded Kuwait, and on UN charter America stepped in and stopped Iraq. He promised to disarm, and he failed.
Make good on your word or be punished; now he is being punished.
That's essentially Blair's entire argument too. This is all very well if you are a schoolmaster drumming obedience into a naughty child. It is less than adequate as an excuse to raze Baghdad.
However, now that we're at war, I support our folks over there fighting.
Would it just be too much to not support them and wish they get the fuck out before they kill people? Joe Infantry is not going to take Saddam out in a knife fight. The best he will do is engage in a pitched battle with a handful of terrified militia. Way to go Justice.
If you think racial oversensitivity in the US is a problem, try talking to any white South African about it. Not that you've met any of course. And by the way, no black person I know uses that kind of racial stereotype, possibly because they're students and not rappers. You might want to get out more.
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You don't change the serving to match the measurement, luddite. Wine is still served by the glass and whisky by the measure, and it hasn't adversely affected pubs other than having to put up signs saying exactly how many mls are in a "glass". All they'd need to do is tack up and extra bit saying that a "pint" was in fact declared by the 2003 Foobar Act to be x millilitres.
:) )
(I should note that the whisky thing has in fact caused outrage, but we all need exceptions.
- Chris
You mean half-litres, surely?
- Chris
Chalk up one surprised Brit. Seriously, there should be a quick-and-easy "Read and understand this before you go telling Americans they don't know anything about history" guide up there somewhere.
- Chris
I'd wager that most everyone thinks of distance in miles, unless you're from a part of the country which has started painting kilometres onto roadsigns.
Eventually they're going to have to start doing that. And we're halfway there with the pub thing, although you still order a pint at the bar volume is measured in ml on the sides of bottles and cans so you can take measurement from that (and I've seen people arguing at a bar to get Reef instead of Smirnoff Ice because you get more mls per bottle).
- Chris
That's beside the point. If you assume the foot to be a standard measurement (it's not as if the metre is any less arbitrary in principle), then if you take other measurements in bases of ten around your standard then you are indeed "metric in everything but name".
- Chris
Rather than the Metric measurement of hamburger weights... The Royale.
- Chris
Further to that, everyone else spells it "metre". Some people just have to be different. :)
I still measure heights in Imperial. I find it easier on the brain (especially when drunk) to take everything as a deviation from six feet than to try and remember a generic height in Metric and compare that way.
- Chris
"Jealous"? Grow up. Nobody envies schoolyard bullies. And goddamnit I hate making US == bullies comparisons, but it's nowhere near as infantile as the typical defensive scrawl that normally forces it out of me.
- Chris
It has been quite a while since I've heard any Frenchman use "my country could kick your country's ass" as a debating point. Whether meant as a self-deprecating jibe at one's own nationalistic arrogance or actually meant in all seriousness, almost every international policy argument one has with a bative of the United States manages to drag that one out eventually. It's almost getting to the point of needing an extension to Godwin's Law.
- Chris
PS hi moderators. Don't bother.
Wrong. Drivers are accountable and have a fairly high barrier to entry (they need at least a car, and unlike gutless Interweb worms will usually also have insurance and a license). Hardly an appropriate comparison.
As for preventing such devices for safety reasons - hardly likely when you look at the ever-increasing number of distracting gadgets that you can use in the car these days. The best that can be hoped is that such devices are prohibitively expensive given windshield regulations and the like, and that we're all being driven around by robots by the time they get cheap enough to come as standard on non-BMWs.
- Chris
Capitalised in English.
The spelling you're using comes from an unsupported and generally unscrupulous fork in the language. I suggest you stick with official releases.
- Chris
In recent years. Back when my Colecovision was wowing my Atari 2600-owning mates, 'twas not the case.
And obligatory anti-Xbox jibe: whaddya mean semi-large? It is teh chunky!
- Chris
Quite. And then there's the usual argument that in actual fact eh didn't steal your toaster ove, he went into your toaster oven shop and replicated a toaster oven so he wouldn't have to pay for it. Yadda yadda.
Never mind that shooting people is fucking gay anyway, obviously. *has noticed his karma is a bit too high to get many mod points these days*
- Chris
You can distribute source which only compiles on Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler, even though it isn't possible to recreate the binary without using proprietary pieces of software. You can redistribute the source to Quake, even though you can't actually get Quake out of it unless you already have the proprietary map and texture files.
The point is that the eventual outcome is the same: without additional proprietary data, it will eventually be unable to recreate a given binary from the given source. However the precedents all point to this being acceptable under the conditions being presented.
- Chris
I think you meant not just because it loads fast on a 56K. The mere thought of using another search engine while on dial-up chills my blood. I'd wager that a fair few Googlers out there use it primarily because it takes zero seconds to finish loading.
- Chris
Suicide bombers in Israel? Yeah, he directly supported all those Iraqi plane hijackers too.
- Chris
You're already on the world's shitlist. As was so eloquently put by your sovereign leader, everyone's either with you or against you. Unless you find ten ICBMs marked "to Europe" made entirely out of baby heads, you're going to remain on the shitlists of all those who aren't already waving your flags. The only jingoists who are likely to swing the other way are those who come back from the Gulf missing limbs.
- Chris
Not half as likely as the US is. Boom boom.
- Chris
How does this make anything better? Note that the pathetic vageness of my whining has been carefully tuned to match that of your Spielberg-esque case for war.
- Chris
That's essentially Blair's entire argument too. This is all very well if you are a schoolmaster drumming obedience into a naughty child. It is less than adequate as an excuse to raze Baghdad.
- Chris
New Yorkers have donated considerably more arms to the IRA than Hussein has ever given to Al Queda. Welcome to the real world, Truman.
- Chris
That's not how you spell Britain. Given that you can't even spell your allies, I'd doubt that you'd be very good at counting them either.
- Chris
Would it just be too much to not support them and wish they get the fuck out before they kill people? Joe Infantry is not going to take Saddam out in a knife fight. The best he will do is engage in a pitched battle with a handful of terrified militia. Way to go Justice.
- Chris
parent post up please. And don't waste your valuable points modding this down, there are far more appropriate posts on this thread.
- Chris
If you think racial oversensitivity in the US is a problem, try talking to any white South African about it. Not that you've met any of course. And by the way, no black person I know uses that kind of racial stereotype, possibly because they're students and not rappers. You might want to get out more.
- Chris