Comment Re:As always, xkcd explains (Score 1) 240
The great thing about standards are that there are so many to choose from!
The great thing about standards are that there are so many to choose from!
But... but... it's easier to remember when I get lumber that I need 2x4 boards than to remember to ask for 50.8x101.6
Or a gallon of milk instead of 3.78541 liters....
Sheesh, I just don't understand how people can stand to use metric measurements for everything...
The metric system is a crutch for people who can't do any math except moving decimal points...
1) Those that use the Metric System; and
2) Those that have landed a man on the Moon.
Well, dammit!
Drawing conclusions from raw data is hard work. Whaddya think we have politicians for?
I just wanna watch TV and play video games, and read Slashdot...
> Maybe scientists would be friendlier if the 'average American' wasn't a proctologic habersashery.
Maybe the average American would be more trusting of scientists if scientists didn't think of the average American in this way.
> If they don't believe the science, then by the very definition they are not scientifically literate.
I see. Science is a faith-based system that you either believe or don't.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
> probably consumer protection in some way.
You mean estabished dealer protection.
de facto controller of all government land that isn't under direct and immediate control of another agency
I thought that was the BLM.
... the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
Not if the slope actually is slippery, but the slipperiness of the slope needs to be shown, not just asserted.
Humor:
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
--Thomas De Quincey, "Second Paper on Murder"
... has to know that the whole concept is unconstitutional
Federal beureaucrats don't care about such things. They have no disincentive to cause them to care. They'll propose it anyway. Maybe it'll actually get through. But if not, oh well. Maybe next time. There are no penalties to them for proposing something unconstitutional.
... and will not survive a day in court.
You must be new to America, yeah?
... or throw it out into the street.
.... a kW/day?
Sometimes 3.14 is just the number 3.14, and not a reference to the ratio of a circle's curcumference to diameter...
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
