OK? The point is that it's not standard. Macro names must follow the same rules as variable names, ie, letters, numbers, and underscores only; and can only start with underscore or letter.

I'm not sure why you're want a macro named '@' anyway. C++ already has punctuation strewn everywhere. The last thing we need is more funny characters. :-b

Bzzt. Dollar sign is a gcc extension.

Well, for starters '@' isn't a valid character in a token. Are you sure you worked on a compiler?

Yeah, don't buy arguably the best SSDs on the market because your OS can't be bothered to work around their foibles.

No, she didn't. The people that were working while she was receiving it paid for it.

So who's really being intolerant?

Easy: The guy who won't make the cake. If you can't find a way to separate your religion from your business you probably shouldn't be in business.

My neighborhood was built in 1986. Still have an HOA.

Yeah, but they sell milk in bags, so their opinion can be safely ignored.

Metric isn't arbitrary. All the units are based on some more or less useful physical measurement.

Yes, it is, and no, they aren't The meter was originally 1 ten-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator (which wasn't terribly useful). Now it's defined in terms of the second and the speed of light (which still isn't terribly useful). And the kilogram is still defined by the mass of a metal cylinder in Paris.

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram

Except this isn't true, strictly speaking.

Whereas in the American system, the answer to 'How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?' is 'Go fuck yourself,'

The answer is: who cares? I just put the pot on the stove until it boils.

Everyone knows what a 2-liter soda is, why can't they figure out what a 2-liter bottle of milk is?

Because with soda they just started selling 2L bottles but with milk they kept on selling it in half-gallons and unhelpfully labeled it as: 1/2 gal (1.89 L).

You want people to use metric? You have an uphill battle. But one thing that would help (as shown by the soda bottles) is to make the metric units the nice round numbers and make the imperial units the weird ones. Sell milk in 4L containers and note that it's 1.06 gal on the label. Instead of putting up a sign saying that it's 50 miles (80.5 km) to Townville, make it 80 km (49.7 miles). Et cetera.

Years 0-25: All signs replaced must print both measurements

We tried that once in the 70s. In some places people shot the signs down. Literally. With guns.

That's fine, unless you don't want to live out in the country somewhere. Then you're out of luck.

Basically, you can set up your yard to be a "food forest" that naturally produces food, year round, at no cost and with very little maintenance.

OK, now try to sell this to your HOA.

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