A teenager I'm acquainted with has been geeking-out with http://www.qb64.net/ for several years. It seems to fill the niche that C-64 BASIC did for me and MS-BASIC and QBasic did for slightly younger geeks.

I'm pretty sure that Asia already has this market wrapped-up pretty tightly.

FTFY

IANAL, nor do I play one anywhere, but it is my understanding that statute-of-limitations only applies to criminal charges. Most (all?) of the RIAA attacks have been civil suits.

Wow!!! That is a really impressive job at taking something out of context.

For those too lazy to look, GP said:

He did specify that he was talking about groups that made money off their invasion of privacy. Lot's of people may make money off of the government's efforts at privacy-erosion, but they aren't the government itself.

Nah! That feeling usually doesn't hit till after you get out from under the covers and the cold hits.

A couple basic assumptions* and some simple arithmetic** says it's about 2.5%.

* These are probably horrible assumptions, but hey I'm not even getting paid to do this analysis.
      Average lifespan: 80-years
      Duration a newborn is likely to do this: 1 year
      Average household size: 2

** (1/80) * 2

I'm guessing you're new here, despite the low ID.

Um. Do you not know where your iGadget was made?

Um. Reading-comprehension much?

Actually, Fahrenheit is very metricy for weather. Zero and 100 are the limits beyond which don't-go-out-unless-absolutely-necessary apply. Below 60 is jacket weather. Below 40 is heavy coat weather. Above 80 is swimming/shorts weather. Well for most people. I start wearing shorts at around 60, but I'm weird.

Because European plywood in multiples-of-three millimeter thicknesses is really metric-origin units?

Which hints at the real truth behind so-called Imperial units. It's not one system. It's a whole bunch of systems developed within different industries and fine-tuned to their needs.

A board foot is very handy for a professional cabinet maker or finish carpenter. So, it's useful to lumber yards by default. Nobody else cares.

A rod is useful to a surveyor working with pre-laser, pre-GPS technology. As a result, those who use his work use measures derived from it. e.g. realtors.

A yard is very natural for anyone working on land. It's pretty much defined as a good-length stride. Most adult men can reliably stride a fairly accurate yard with little effort.

Oh those cabinet makers up there, they like feet and inches. A dresser rarely needs measurements to be adjusted by 10ths. It always needs halves, thirds and quarters. Hey! A base-12 system can do all of those easily.

Most of Imperial is actually base-12. Because it is easier to do the conversions that people often actually do in real life. Halving, thirding, quartering, doubling, tripling, quadrupling,... These occur naturally a lot more than fifthing and tenthing. In addition, base-12 simply has more natural factors.

But then, at least one metric unit has the same sort of origin. Celsius was designed to be useful to the scientist. Water freezing and evaporating are useful signposts to him. To people in everyday life, body-temperature and frick-you-everything-will-be-frozen-solid-out-there are pretty useful signposts*.

* Go research the origin of the F scale. That's pretty much what the benchmarks were set at.

Pedantry Man to the rescue!

I was taught in HS chemistry that pounds are used to measure weight and kilograms to measure mass. Only comparable in an assumed, consistent gravitational field. And even then, not really interchangeable. Know what you are measuring.