the common term is "US customary units". Also, many countries that use metric for many measurements also still use imperial or other units for some measurements. For example, Canada uses the imperial gallon in many situations, which is ~20% bigger than the US gallon.

Units are complicated and many people overstate the benefits of having uniform worldwide units. If I'm choosing a unit for how I sell my goods, what's more important, that the person down the street is familiar with the unit, or somebody from Ghana will be familiar if he travels to my store.

Besides, the insistence on worldwide conformity has hints of some sort of New World Order conspiracy.

I think this is supposed to be spelled, "your an idiot!!"

tangential thread - how many emails do you get in a day and how long do you keep them?

I usually get about 50 emails, half of which I need to engage on, and half of which are just FYIs. I usually delete emails on my first pass if I know I'll never need them. But once the emails get "below the fold" they're not going to be deleted. I have email history going back 6+ years.

it's all keyword searchable, of course. I like it that way.

to be fair, if you're dressed as a clown, you're not impersonating a clown per se, you're actually being a clown, albeit an amateur clown. if you dress as a storm trooper, you don't magically turn into an actual stormtrooper, you're just some fucker who needs to leave his childhood behind and finally embrace adulthood.

It's basically impossible to avoidplayingtheirmusic, unless you go completely mute. See my comment later in this thread.

My beef is with their M.O. They are likeIP trolls, bullying companies into preemptively licensing their material because they'll sue you maybe if you don't. but it's worse than that, because BMI preys on non-savvy small businesses that don't have copywrite experience, can't affordtohave a lawyer on retainer, and definitely can't afford the cost of a lawsuit, even if they win. It's like the people who prey on the elderly because they are easy targets. Scum. ASCAP is basically the same.

BMI pays the songwriters. They're basically authors, not entertainers.

Former Restautantosaur here. These BMI/ASCAP people are thugs. They cold call random businesses, threatening potential legal penalties if you don't buy a blanket license. They basically say, 'if you don't buy a license now, one of our inspectors might come out to your shop, and if we hear any of our music playing we're gonna sue your ass.' Then they go after random people like the guy in the article 'to set an example.' Thugs, it's all extortion.

I was just reading about Jurassic world, so when I looked at the headline I thought it said Restautantosaur. How cool would that be?

Frown boner! The linked article is factual and neutral analysis. It's posted on WaPo, not breitbart! You should read it, you may find it interesting.

speaking of bombs, imma drop some knowledge bombs on you.

Still no legal authorization for the war against ISIS.

teal deer, Obama keeps ramping up troops and operations but still hasn't locked in an authorization, and he is paying the price politically. It's like moving into a place before signing the lease.

i dunno, it sounds kinda tongue in cheek. like a Burglary for Dummies book.

he should have taken uber...

i've seen videos online that are made using GTA clips. I suppose that rockstar could provide access to the entire world in these clips to turn them into VR clips.

-1 offtopic

OK, I looked it up... it's like a dry barren area. if CA were a barren area, how could it be the breadbasket of the world and be feeding the entire nation????????