Comment Re:Pop Corn (Score 2) 338
So instead of dropping bombs, the enemy will just drop disco balls. That ought to be fun.
"Ach! Meine Augen!"
So instead of dropping bombs, the enemy will just drop disco balls. That ought to be fun.
"Ach! Meine Augen!"
As a more libertarian society (yes, we are, like it or not) the government can't just tell us or any private entity what standards we will use, which was the barrier to entry it had the first time we tried to adopt it
This is specifically within the purview of the US Congress. Specifically, see Article 1, Section 8, fifth paragraph:
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
If you need to calibrate a thermometer you just made (and don't have a known good thermometer to do it against) freezing and boiling water is a lot easier than messing around with liquid nitrogen.
Ironically, this is one of the few areas in which Fahrenheit has a clear advantage. Human body temperature is roughly 96 degrees under the arm (if that's not precise enough, perhaps you should let someone else calibrate your thermometer?). An ice bath is 32 degrees. That's a difference of 64 degrees, and the point equidistant from the two marks you made is 64 degrees F. Divide by two until you get to degree markings.
Well, why water? Why not nitrogen?
How exactly would you measure its volume? How would you weigh it?
But try figuring out how big an acre is in any useful unit.
Seriously. Isn't it measured in rods, i.e. ANOTHER unit of length that nobody uses?
Fuck that noise. Fahrenheit (which roughly corresponds to human body temperature) is a more sensible unit.
Fahrenheit has its limit of 96 (not 100) set at body temperature (or what people believed it was before more accurate measurements), and 32 at the freezing point of water (i.e. an ice bath) for simple calibration of thermometers when they were being hand manufactured, since you can just split the difference between marks by eye in half to get to the single-degree markers.
Why on earth is this a system that you think makes more sense than Celcius? At best it makes as much sense (both being completely arbitrary).
Its odd, how in your gun toting utopia, the USA, which has regular gun massacres, I'm aware of very few - if *any* instances of one of the concealed carry heroes actually stopping a massacres by shooting the nutter.
The term you're looking for is observation bias. You don't read about the massacres that didn't happen because the bad guy got shot at.
Erm.... wouldn't we hear about potential massacres that were stopped? Seriously, I imagine the NRA (and probably Fox) would be letting us know.
http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2009/12/krugman-did-identify-the-housing-bubble-in-2005.html
This links to a Krugman article from 2005 (notably pre-Schiff) when he not only called out the housing bubble, but assumed that it had been known about for some time.
Sure, CERTAIN economists have been wrong about things, but no school has a monopoly on predicting the bubble.
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