Oy, this is what I get for arguing with extremists. My head hurts trying to parse this post.

Your entire thing seems to be that you can't easily convert between units. Speaking as an American who has lived in metric countries for the last decade, that's bullshit. Nobody ever needs to know how much a liter of water weighs. Nobody ever converts dekameters to hectometers. You just stick with one unit, the one that's suitable for whatever you're measuring.

"When you say "pound" do you mean force or mass?"
Fucking hell, when is the last time anyone needed to actually use this? "In the lab the other day" yeah right we're not talking about edge cases.

Moreover, if you're a drinking man like me, the metric system is a ripoff. A bottle is 12 fluid ounces and that's all there is to it. 355ml. With the metric system, at best you get 350ml, and it's really easy to slide down to 325ml, 275ml, and so on.

Please stop perpetrating the false "nerds/jocks" dichotomy. It's bullshit. Just because people like me don't want to be videoed all through my day by some gadget-obsessed moron who desperately, desperately wants to call himself a "cyborg" doesn't mean we were athletes in high school. Fuck off and stop saying this.

That's no problem - just wait another eight hours or so, the story will appear again on the front page. Probably with the duplicate sentence eliminated. Maybe.

Stop being an idiot. Communism is opposed due to what it is, a horrid system that killed tens of millions of humans in pursuit of a perfect society. They tried your idea where nobody wants to make a profit and it failed. Making a ridiculous extremist straw man post doesn't help things.

This is for backbone, not home use. Jeez. Even if you went to the internet company's office and tapped directly into their 10Gb connection, you won't get anywhere near that speed because the other side of the link isn't nearly that fast.

If they showed any tolerance, it wouldn't be a zero-tolerance policy.

You asswipes demanded this, now you got it. Deal.

It's called "Bush Derangement Syndrome". Look it up. It's a mental illness that causes people to start ranting apropos of nothing.

Bill of Rights? Eroding the Bill of Rights is a good thing, the Constitution is outdated. It needs to die, the sooner the better.

Hmm, that's odd, according to liberals the entire "Chinese are attacking us" meme is a total myth. It's not happening. It is a convenient boogeyman meant to drive government spending towards the military-industrial complex. So, which one is right?

Ah, yes, does the "USA SUX0Rz!" flame ever get old on Slashdot? It truly is evergreen. Next time try spelling it "AmeriKKKa" for that extra authenticity.

You'd be shocked at how many people get really offended if you tell them to stop using Gmail. It's like telling someone who likes to bitch about how crap TV is to stop watching - it's just utterly out of the question. You'd think it would be easy to search for "free email provider", go to page 17 of results, and pick some random one. You would also be dead wrong.

You're talking about *being* in China. It is entirely different when Chinese people visit your home country on business. They will deal with your country's Chinese population (the only part of your people that matter). Foreigners that speak Chinese? That is a wonderful diversion, to be sure. It's like a performing seal being brought to the meeting. But for serious business, get the barbarian out of here and let's talk amongst civilized people.

I know nothing of tumblr. How would I go about inspecting this cornucopia of pron? Specifically JAV?

Our fucked-up civilization is why diabetes is so prevalent in the first place. If we all went back to a natural diet diabetes would be greatly decreased. You know the movie "Idiocracy"? That's what happens to a society that abandons natural selection and lets low IQs breed out of control.