Yeah, and I'm 788,400,000 seconds old, give or take.

I swear, sometimes metric people are purposely trying to make things impossible for me to visualize intuitively.

Too :)

Who came up with these numbers? Ew. They don't work out nicely in either scale.

And why is it a "pitch"? It takes place outside, on grass. I would think "field" would make more sense than a word that refers to a kind of tar.

To paraphrase Serenity (a quote for every occasion!), "Well, what [the law says] and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."

We got into a drag-out fight last time, so I'll just leave it at that.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that AFAIK in most U.S. cars, the MPH scale numbers are usually bigger and on the extreme top edge of the dial. I'm sure I would be constantly catching myself having to squint down at the smaller KPH scale squished underneath, which would take longer and by definition be more dangerous.

I'm waiting to hear why anybody thought using such a wacky form of measurement was a good idea. "X over 1Y" (miles per 1 gallon, or gallons per 1 mile would work too, technically) is as simple to use for converting as possible because you don't have to muck around with an arbitrary scalar.

Only one man would dare to give me the raspberry jam.

*canon

Although technically Tetris doesn't have cannons, either.

Because generally when someone is boring up on your tailpipe, it doesn't help to slow down.

I go 60 on a 50-55 commuter highway when I can and there are still a fair number of people that rip past me going 10 faster still. But yeah, obviously *I'm* the problem.

Were you the guy awhile back who said there was no reason to ever violate the speed limit ever?

Practically speaking, yes. My point was that you might want to stop and reexamine *why* you keep getting modded down instead of trying to drown them out.

Probably because the guys at the top making all the money will decide which categories "we" "want" and there is zero chance of us actually coming out ahead. It's most expensive for them to transmit video? Bzzt. No more video. Now what's the next-most expensive thing? VOIP? Bzzt. No more VOIP.

It's like SecureBoot. There's nothing wrong with the concept *in theory;* the entire problem is who is in charge of the system.

Okay, now imagine that you pay for overnight shipping on all packages you send, and only once every blue moon do you actually get the speed you paid for. We *already* have this with their "up to" bullshit. They just want to tighten the valve even tighter and charge us even more.

Or how about why all kinds of phone companies offer "unlimited data" but it's a fucking lie EVERY SINGLE TIME?

Find and replace "net neutrality" with "stop fucking around and provide exactly what you agreed to--no more, no less."

"Well, you're in the future now, so you'll finally be treated with dignity. Now strip down and get on The Probulator, Fry."

Guess I'm glad that I signed up for facebook and Gmail before they required a phone number, then. They can continue biting my shiny metal ass as long as they want. Fuck no I'm not going to give them a RL phone number to track and market.

I think you're supposed to argue that it wasn't abuse, not that the abuse was okay.