Ah, yes.

It would be very beneficial for the US to switch from Fahrenheit to Centigrade.

So, instead of 0 being very cold and 100 being very hot, it would be 0 is kind of cold and 100 is death.

It is actually useful to see when something is 100F.

The only time when your average person measures 100C is when they're boiling water. Even then, they don't take the temperature of the water, but instead they look at the water to see if it's boiling.

The "one of three countries that doesn't use SI" argument doesn't make sense to me.

Especially given that, even with countries that have adopted SI measurements, that doesn't mean that the people actually use them. In the UK, people drive in miles per hour and weigh themselves in stone.

And that's the thing.

If units are switched over where it matters, what is the point of switching over where it doesn't?

Also, I love standard units for cooking, since, when I see recipes from abroad, there is a tendency to measure ingredients in terms of weight. For me, though it is MUCH easier to add one cup sugar and one cup flour to a recipe than to add 125g of flour and 225g of sugar.

Of course, a Scottish man I encountered when bringing this up in another forum argued that a cup isn't well defined. At least, up until I explained that a cup is half a pint.

Then he argued that instead of calling it a cup, why not just call it a half-pint?

It's actually not that unheard of for astronauts to play pranks in space. For example:

Having successfully completed the first ever two-space vehicle rendezvous in orbit with Frank Borman and James Lovell, Jr. in Gemini 7, Schirra and Stafford were understandably in high spirits before they began their atmospheric reentry maneuvers.

But, before beginning their journey home, NASA received a report from the pair saying they had spotted a UFO. According to Schirra's memoirs "Schirra's Space," Stafford contacted Mission Control and said: "We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit.... Looks like he might be going to re-enter soon.... You just might let me pick up that thing.... I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit."

Before Mission Control had time to digest the "UFO sighting," they heard an extraterrestrial rendition of "Jingle Bells" coming from Gemini 6. Schirra and Stafford had smuggled a harmonica and miniature sleigh bells onto the spacecraft especially for this moment.

http://news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-jingle-bells-first-space-music.html

I'm sure that it will work incredibly well for Lego for quite a while yet. They've found a way to increase sales.

The only question is as to whether Lego will go the way of the Beanie Babies.

Thankfully, for the rest of us, all we have to sit back and laugh until the bubble bursts, and we're able to buy mint sets cheaply in a few years time.

Virgin America flies to 22 airports, in 18 metro areas, or 15 US metro areas.

So, if you're traveling non-stop on one coast, or with one stop in Chicago between coasts, and you happen to be traveling between two of these fifteen locations, then Virgin is definitely an option.

So IR#1 = Steam, Railroads

IR#3 = Buying Railroad Tycoon on Steam.

How was the data inconclusive? It seems to me that the data is as conclusive as a single study can be.

It shows that there isn't a simple relationship where either one causes the other, or the other causes the one. In that respect, it may be similar to alcohol, where people tend to drink more when they're depressed, and alcohol is a depressant.

This video from Potholer54 on YouTube is pretty good at summarizing the story about scientists predicting an ice age in the 70's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU_AtHkB4Ms

Basically, Time and Newsweek published that there was an impending ice age, since a few scientists said that their data showed that the Earth was cool at that moment. One of the scientists even said that the period of cooling was about to end.

Of papers published in scientific journals between 1965 and 1979, there were zero that predicted an ice age, seven that predicted global cooling, and 44 that predicted global warming.

On top of that, even restricted to newspapers and magazines, the vast majority predicted global warming. That people only seem to mention the two magazines that say that there is going to be an ice age is a pretty obvious indication of cherry picking.

You don't even have to be in the driver's seat.

You can be in the back seat, with the keys on the front passenger seat, and still get arrested.

At the very least, these two aren't illegal in New York.

There was a story a while ago (sorry, I can't find a link) where a man was caught masturbating in the woods on state parkland. He was ruled innocent of indecent exposure, since he was under the reasonable expectation that it was private.

Also, women have had the right to be topless in public since 1992.

If I can be put on the sex offender list for pissing in public, I think that it's only fair that women get put on the sex offender list for breastfeeding in public.

Also, even with government issued guns, Switzerland has half the guns per capita of the US.

You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?

Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.

And since they can blame the Union for the company going under, they will do well on their next job interview as an executive somewhere else.