Yes it is. There's a difference between smoke and the smell of smoking. Some stuff I pick up during my work (mail service driver) smells like all kinds of nasty, and there's no law against that. If he wants to smoke in his personal truck (if it is his employers truck and the employer prohibits it, its a different story), while he is driving it alone, that is his good right.

It's not like all the other exhaust gases are healthy.

Gender is weird, I agree. Although I don't get them wrong in my native tongue (Dutch), I couldn't explain the rules regarding it or even why a specific gender is the correct one. I just know. And I know that that must be very hard to learn if you don't just know. I had a tough time learning the German cases. There are four of them and four genders, and there are definitive and indefinitive articles. This gives you a matrix of 32 possible options just so you put the right word in front of a noun.

Beercan in the fridge. It says 33 CL. Small water bottle: 30 CL. Recipies often talk about adding a deciliter of something.

In the defense of meters, if feet were a useful size we wouldn't need inches or fractions of inches. Don't drill-bits come in 1/16th inch increments in the States? If inches were a useful size, we wouldn't have miles. Whatever size you pick a unit length to be, there will always be a need for a different unit length. If set the meter to be as long as an inch or a foot and remove the centimeter from common use, we would still need a unit for, for example, Earth-Sun distances. So in the end it all boils down to which system is easier to do math with. And SI wins that game, in my opinion.

No, you don't have the need to calculate how many times a small unit goes into a big one. Other people do. Also, why should I start with yet another conversion I can screw up?

Also, fractions of 10 are not very hard either. 4 is 2,5. 3 is 3,33 repeating. Imperial does not really have an advantage here, as you have to memorize the fractions for both.

Also, out of your head, how much does 7,5 gallon of water weigh in pounds and ounces? I can tell you the weight of 7,5 liter of water instantly. It's 7,5 kilogram.

I'm sorry, you are wrong. According to the SI, the millimeter does not exist as a separate unit. It's just like the centimeter or the kilometer, a prefix to the unit of a meter. Using SI prefixes to SI units is SI accepted, so these extra "units" should and do exist.

Tachyon was great. Also great were Freelancer (if you could get around to the somewhat odd flying controls) and my personal favorite game ever is Freelancer2, which you can now get for free because it has been open sourced. Freelancer2 also has a lot of buttons, but the learning curve is pretty smooth.

Being Dutch, I agree with them. My English is a lot better than my German, even though I live about 10 miles from the German border. It helps that a lot of TV shows are in English and English is the language of the internet. On the other hand, I've also heard that Dutch is a very hard language...

On pronunciation, there's a great poem on the internet that starts with this:
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Quickly, convert from 1234 kiloinch to miles! The beauty of the metric system is that there is one unit for distance, which is a meter. All others are just prefixes. A kilometer is just a kilo meters, so 1000 meters. All you have to do is move the decimal point. With the imperial system, going from the small distance unit (inch) to the large one (miles) requires a lot of conversion. And then you have a third, medium unit called the feet, just to make it a little more unwieldy.

At least doctors have a code of honor and actually have to study to obtain a license.

Well no. Basically, he masturbated in the ocean and called it fucking a woman. It's the closest most slashdotters can get, right?

It can't give off more heat and be more efficient at the same time. However, it is placed close to you so that helps :)

I hope not. WotLK is barely a year old.

Good post, but WC3 had 4 races, unless you count the Scourge and Humans as one.

Actually, because they are changing the old world landscape anyway, adding support for flying (basically filling every part of the map) shouldn't be a huge amount of extra work.

Nobody respects that rule because of stupid myths like needing to go from 60 to 0 in that time. Say the average reaction time is 1 second, including taking your foot of the gas and putting the brakes on. That leaves you 2 seconds to decelerate more than the guy in front of you. (the advised rule is 2 seconds in NL, and below 1 second you can get a fine)

This 2/3 second rule has to include the worst case scenario: The first car has good brake power, the last one has a nearly fatigued driver with a heavy load and low stopping power (say its a trucker in an old semi). Do you want to drive less than 3 secs in front of it?