That small text is crazy for a professional site. I had to CTRL + Scroll to even see what it said. I thought maybe it was a joke about CSS being so crappy.
McDonalds isn't lobbying governments to make all non-Big Macs illegal to obtain or possess. Sharing Whoppers with your friends gets a big lawsuit filed against you. Big Macs bought at McDonalds only are edible inside the original car you bought them from, or the restaurant. If you leave the car or restaruant with their food, you'll barf unless you've paid for a second Big Mac. You can purchase a special Big Mac holder, but it's not compatible with other hamburgers.
"we're doing just fine with imperial measurements, even if they aren't as "neat" as metric, so what makes you think there's a problem?"
The point is you're not doing just fine. International trade is effected by the problem of Americans insisting on using outdated measuring systems, so labelling and package sizes need to work in both trading locations. Vehicle dashboards are even different. Darn nuts and bolts aren't the same sizes.
Some xenophobic Americans would prefer if everyone learn english when they become Americans. The poor immigrant also has to learn about fluid ounces?
America is in the unfortunate situation of being behind the rest of the world, not something that typically happens. The proper response when everyone else is more numerous, and they've created an easy, friendly system along with several Americans in favour of it to, is to say, "Hey, that's a good idea World. Instead of languishing here with outdated measurements, we'll standardize with you, just like our time system is, and trade and communication will improve."
Your concern is noted. The results I posted elsewhere in another comment [modded Redundant, go figure] and instead of posting them again here, gave the link to the site people could easily figure out the other stats from if they were willing to dig through the volumes of rules.
LG fridges have had a nasty habit of going up in flames in Canada. It took many months for them to issue a recall, the first of which didn't mention the word FIRE. They issued another later stating they cause fires from being plugged in.
It doesn't take much effort to switch. 100km/ hour, so 50km = half an hour. You might have the convenience of flying along at a "mile a minute", or using an ounce of prevention, but most other humans shake our heads in frustration at the American refusal to update and simplify communication of measurements between cultures. Americans would no longer think the air freezes at the Canadian border since Windsor is +8 while Detroit is +42.
I can drink a litre of water in a sitting, but not a gallon. It's easier to walk a kilometer too;-) It is harder to lose a kilogram or gain a Celcius degree, I'll grant you that.
And dividing by 10 is awesome. Remembering WHAT to divide by in the US is a pain. 1/8 of an inch, WTH? That's sure intuitive.
And what's harder to remember: water freezes at +32F (and +18F, +11F and points below), or in metric Celcius it freezes if it's 0 or a negative number? Then it boils at 100C.
It would only take bottlers to always put liters/grams/whatever on their containers for a few years, and wean people off fluid ounces. Then start putting Celcius on the weather broadcasts right after the Fahrenheit temperature, for a few years. Then the next generation will have moved over to understanding the comparison, just like in Canada. It's not very difficult, and if done slowly costs next to no money to implement.
You'd be mistaken, about the geography of Sask. that is. Eastern Montana is actually a pretty close representation. There's even badlands like in the Dakotas, and the north half of the province is trees and rocks and lakes and rivers. There are plains too, but they make up less than 1/3 of the province, although about half of the most populated regions. There are two seperate regions inthe south with hills in the 2000' elevation range.
Supermilage cars would work on the TransCanada pretty well, except for all the traffic wanting to run them over.
Yep, several times, it was in the same school division, about 100km away, or less by grid roads.
If I'd had this 3000MPG vehicle to get there, assuming it works on gravel and hills, I could have gone there and back every time I ever have, on just 1 litre of gasoline.
"All vehicles must use the same base engine supplied to each entrant by Briggs & Stratton Corporation (Model 091202 Type1016E1A1001). The engine is air cooled, four cycle, with a 2.61 kw (3.5 horsepower) rating at 3600 rpm."
"The performance run will consist of each vehicle running six laps around a 2.6 km (1.6 mile) oval test track. The vehicle must achieve a minimum six lap average speed of 24 km/hr (15 mph). This means that each vehicle will be required to travel a total distance of 15.5 km (9.6 miles) in a maximum of 38.4 minutes. The vehicle must not exceed a single lap average speed of 25mph (40.23km). This means a vehicle must take longer than 3 minutes 50 seconds to complete each lap. Vehicles must be capable of ascending a 1 percent grade and descending a 7 percent grade."
One can only guess that the $5 quoted is metric, or Canadian $5.
Yes, I'm kidding. Why not throw in a USD or CDN after the $5 to let us know? Still with the Canadian Dollar at about $.90US, I think most people could afford the gas either way.
The obvious solution to blocking white light is to apply a white light filter. Otherwise known as sunglasses. Or black construction paper. Image quality might suffer.
I think Men In Black came to mind when I heard about this camera jamming device. Any idea if the sales men were really tiny and spoke with fake sounding Mexican accents like the coffee drinking aliens in the movie?
As if getting crushed by atmospheric pressure wasn't bad enough on the Jovian aliens, now they are getting pelted with hard glass when they venture into th Giant Red Spot storm too?
I guess Go Daddy is aiming to spend Father's Day in jail.
"Hi kids, thanks for visiting me here in prison. I tried to make spammers give me some of their drug money, but ended up asking innocent people for drug money too. Oops. Maybe next year we can go have that picnic in the park."
Stupid Captain Copyright would probably make some stupid about his nemesis the EFF.
Captain Copyright: Ma'am, you can't buy that used CD, the artist doesn't get royalties from it! EFF: Don't worry Ma'am, buy the CD, I'll PROTECT YOU! Captain Copyright: Oh you're mean EFF! Meanie! Don't make me throw lawyers at you and this woman!
"so if their laptop gets run over by a bus, issuing them a new one is trivial and takes no time at all."
You're assuming that the laptop }user{ didn't also get run over by that bus. That makes it harder to issue them a replacement laptop - if they don't have a working lap anymore.
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That small text is crazy for a professional site. I had to CTRL + Scroll to even see what it said. I thought maybe it was a joke about CSS being so crappy.
"I take my business elsewhere."
McDonalds isn't lobbying governments to make all non-Big Macs illegal to obtain or possess. Sharing Whoppers with your friends gets a big lawsuit filed against you. Big Macs bought at McDonalds only are edible inside the original car you bought them from, or the restaurant. If you leave the car or restaruant with their food, you'll barf unless you've paid for a second Big Mac. You can purchase a special Big Mac holder, but it's not compatible with other hamburgers.
I'm one of those Hotmail users that's filtered his own email address, filtering it into my Suspicious emails folder.
"we're doing just fine with imperial measurements, even if they aren't as "neat" as metric, so what makes you think there's a problem?"
The point is you're not doing just fine. International trade is effected by the problem of Americans insisting on using outdated measuring systems, so labelling and package sizes need to work in both trading locations. Vehicle dashboards are even different. Darn nuts and bolts aren't the same sizes.
Some xenophobic Americans would prefer if everyone learn english when they become Americans. The poor immigrant also has to learn about fluid ounces?
America is in the unfortunate situation of being behind the rest of the world, not something that typically happens. The proper response when everyone else is more numerous, and they've created an easy, friendly system along with several Americans in favour of it to, is to say, "Hey, that's a good idea World. Instead of languishing here with outdated measurements, we'll standardize with you, just like our time system is, and trade and communication will improve."
Your concern is noted. The results I posted elsewhere in another comment [modded Redundant, go figure] and instead of posting them again here, gave the link to the site people could easily figure out the other stats from if they were willing to dig through the volumes of rules.
"I don't know why you Americans, when referring to Canadian provinces"
You mean Canadian provinces like say, I don't know, Saskatchewan?
-says SASKboy
I threw province in there so people would know I didn't mean the city. I was too lazy to type it in a gramatically correct other order.
LG fridges have had a nasty habit of going up in flames in Canada. It took many months for them to issue a recall, the first of which didn't mention the word FIRE. They issued another later stating they cause fires from being plugged in.
It doesn't take much effort to switch. 100km/ hour, so 50km = half an hour. You might have the convenience of flying along at a "mile a minute", or using an ounce of prevention, but most other humans shake our heads in frustration at the American refusal to update and simplify communication of measurements between cultures. Americans would no longer think the air freezes at the Canadian border since Windsor is +8 while Detroit is +42.
;-)
I can drink a litre of water in a sitting, but not a gallon.
It's easier to walk a kilometer too
It is harder to lose a kilogram or gain a Celcius degree, I'll grant you that.
And dividing by 10 is awesome. Remembering WHAT to divide by in the US is a pain. 1/8 of an inch, WTH? That's sure intuitive.
And what's harder to remember: water freezes at +32F (and +18F, +11F and points below), or in metric Celcius it freezes if it's 0 or a negative number? Then it boils at 100C.
It would only take bottlers to always put liters/grams/whatever on their containers for a few years, and wean people off fluid ounces. Then start putting Celcius on the weather broadcasts right after the Fahrenheit temperature, for a few years. Then the next generation will have moved over to understanding the comparison, just like in Canada. It's not very difficult, and if done slowly costs next to no money to implement.
You'd be mistaken, about the geography of Sask. that is. Eastern Montana is actually a pretty close representation. There's even badlands like in the Dakotas, and the north half of the province is trees and rocks and lakes and rivers. There are plains too, but they make up less than 1/3 of the province, although about half of the most populated regions. There are two seperate regions inthe south with hills in the 2000' elevation range.
Supermilage cars would work on the TransCanada pretty well, except for all the traffic wanting to run them over.
And it didn't say if it was British or American Gallons too, right?
Gosh I can't wait until this measuring mixmash is over with and metric starts gaining by more than just inches on Imperial in the States.
Metric time however... the car could have gone from Victoria to Halifax in possibly 1.5 metric months.
Yep, several times, it was in the same school division, about 100km away, or less by grid roads.
If I'd had this 3000MPG vehicle to get there, assuming it works on gravel and hills, I could have gone there and back every time I ever have, on just 1 litre of gasoline.
"All vehicles must use the same base engine supplied to each entrant by Briggs & Stratton Corporation (Model 091202 Type1016E1A1001). The engine is air cooled, four cycle, with a 2.61 kw (3.5 horsepower) rating at 3600 rpm."
"The performance run will consist of each vehicle running six laps around a 2.6 km (1.6 mile) oval test track. The vehicle must achieve a minimum six lap average speed of 24 km/hr (15 mph). This means that each vehicle will be required to travel a total distance of 15.5 km (9.6 miles) in a maximum of 38.4 minutes. The vehicle must not exceed a single lap average speed of 25mph (40.23km). This means a vehicle must take longer than 3 minutes 50 seconds to complete each lap. Vehicles must be capable of ascending a 1 percent grade and descending a 7 percent grade."
http://www.sae.org/students/ copypaste remove this part inserted to avoid slashdotting superrules.pdf
Competition results, warning PDF http://www.sae.org/students/sm2006results.pdf
Indiana and a HS there too came in with high MPG, as did Laval in Quebec province.
One can only guess that the $5 quoted is metric, or Canadian $5.
Yes, I'm kidding. Why not throw in a USD or CDN after the $5 to let us know? Still with the Canadian Dollar at about $.90US, I think most people could afford the gas either way.
Haven't you heard of the Onion Layer in network security?
It's security that makes people cry, especially when a part is cut out of it with a knife.
She should in this order sue:
Assaulter.
Parents who let her go.
Myspace? Not ever. But in a crazy legal environment it might work.
I like that aMSN has video that works from Windows to Linux. Once google Talk has voice in Linux, I think I'll have no excuses to run Windows.
The obvious solution to blocking white light is to apply a white light filter. Otherwise known as sunglasses. Or black construction paper. Image quality might suffer.
I think Men In Black came to mind when I heard about this camera jamming device. Any idea if the sales men were really tiny and spoke with fake sounding Mexican accents like the coffee drinking aliens in the movie?
As if getting crushed by atmospheric pressure wasn't bad enough on the Jovian aliens, now they are getting pelted with hard glass when they venture into th Giant Red Spot storm too?
I guess Go Daddy is aiming to spend Father's Day in jail.
"Hi kids, thanks for visiting me here in prison. I tried to make spammers give me some of their drug money, but ended up asking innocent people for drug money too. Oops. Maybe next year we can go have that picnic in the park."
Help make The Corruptibles a big story on Digg as well.
Stupid Captain Copyright would probably make some stupid about his nemesis the EFF.
Captain Copyright: Ma'am, you can't buy that used CD, the artist doesn't get royalties from it!
EFF: Don't worry Ma'am, buy the CD, I'll PROTECT YOU!
Captain Copyright: Oh you're mean EFF! Meanie! Don't make me throw lawyers at you and this woman!
B3v and Charlie, who are you, who do you think I am, and what's an FTA board?
"so if their laptop gets run over by a bus, issuing them a new one is trivial and takes no time at all."
o df-notes.html
You're assuming that the laptop }user{ didn't also get run over by that bus. That makes it harder to issue them a replacement laptop - if they don't have a working lap anymore.
I saw this ODF inclusion story right on the Openoffice.org site this morning, but with a different news provider.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/051606-ibm-