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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: The Welch was the length of time one would go between nearly killing oneself in some unusual way (falling on an ice axe and just barely missing impaling oneself, overshooting a sled while jumping on it... etc.) Now you see? There's a perfect example of confusing units. In the rest of the world that is the "Nicoll". Anthony -- | Weather prediction will never be accurate until we | | kill all the butterflies | |
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 01:00:22 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: And don't get me started on racks for computers. :-) ....Actually, I've found that buying the $99 storage rack starter set at The Container Store has provided the best solution for quick'n'dirty computer racks. Three shelves spaced evenly allows for two shelves for eight servers, one 17" monitor, a 8-way switchbox, one Altec-Lansing 550 DDS speaker & woofer setup, and a 12-port 10/100 hub, and *still* gives me room to hang my pants by the belt loop on one of the rack corners. Same rack kits I've seen at other stores usually run about $50-$60 more, and sometimes you don't get the rubber feet on the bottom... OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:54:49 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
wrote: I can just imagine some American hippies watching those ads and getting ENTIRELY the wrong idea... "Let's move to Canada, man. They got it in the stores!" ....Let'em go. Canada's only good for deporting hippies anyway :-) [Cue Henry Spencer] OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:16:22 -0700, Mary Shafer
wrote: On Tue, 04 May 2004 03:20:35 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Killfiled Idiot\)" wrote: "Neil Gerace" wrote in message . au... Another benefit of decimal currency over Lsd (money, that is) is that suddenly three quarters of the time spent in school on maths could be used for something other than money sums. That reminds me of a system we all use that's not base 10... Time. I mean come on... 24 hour days? 60 minutes to an hour... 60 seconds, but powers of 10 for subsecond intervals. Oh and 7 days in week? Geesh, who thunk those up! The Babylonians or someone, as I recall. And you know what, we seem to manage for the most part. You've got to admit that 60 is evenly divisible by a lot of numbers. ....On the other hand, the Frogs proposed some years ago to change to something like a 20-hour system with 100-minute hours, or some quasi-metric concoction. The idea was to link this in with running the country with no demarkation in labor or living routines with regards to the day-night cycle. From an energy use standpoint, it would allow power generation to maintain a steady rate throughout the entire day-night cycle as opposed to the normal use rates of 180-185% higher during the day than during the night, and thus cut energy costs significantly where fuel oil is concerned. From a lifestyle and economic standpoint, it would be a blessing and a cluster**** at the same time. The Frogs who were pushing for this back in the 70's when OPEC was screwing the world over (*) called for both work and lifestyles to adjust to this new way, which would abandon any consideration of whether it was day or night. Businesses would be open perpetually, as would government offices and facilities, and work schedules would be spread out so to cover accordingly. Even school kids would even be adjusted so that their schedules fit those of their parents, and the schools would be open 24 hours a day. Needless to say, the idea went absolutely nowhere, which was surprising considering how goofy the Frogs tend to be with crazy ideas. ....Ironically, thanks to most Wal-Marts being 24 hours, the issue of not being able to get what you need if you don't get off work before Midnight or you need it before sunup is no longer an issue, and may be an excuse to give Sam Walton a nod towards sainthood. After my being able to pick up an emergency pair of pants(**) last month while out of town just before having to photograph a stripper contest in San Antonio, the man deserves it. (*) And they all should have been given the choice of either dropping the price of crude back to pre-embargo extortion levels, or facing Mecca while standing in the middle of glassed-over parking lots with the Cherenkov effect lighting the way. (**) After getting out of the car, I brushed up next to an old piece-of-**** Datsun with a jagged edge from a fender-bender. It snagged the right pocket and slit right down the side seam so that my entire right leg and skivvies were visible to all. Wal-Mart happened to have three pairs of pants just my size, and I bought all three and managed to change pants with about 20 minutes to spare. AFAIK, the whole world needs to run 24 hours and to hell with closing after dark! OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:22:51 -0700, Mary Shafer
wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:05:15 -0400, (Peter Stickney) wrote: And, of course, the truly important values - 6.0#/U.S. Gal. for 100/130, 6.5 #/USGal for JP-4, and 6.7#/USGal for JP-5. At what temperature? And what the correction for other temps? ....And what values for my favorite, JP-7? OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 06:46:23 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote: "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: Oh and you can never have too much garlic. My wife and I regard garlic as a vegetable, not as a spice or aromatic. ....And in Transylvania, it's considered a lethal weapon. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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David Lesher wrote: I've seen no mention in this threat that the ISS is half metric/ half SAE. When it was SSF, the international partners were required to provide English/Imperial units on the drawing provided to the U.S. contractors and NASA for interface control purposes. -- Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D. Reformed Aerospace Engineer Columbia Loss FAQ: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html |
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 09:22:10 +0100, Anthony Frost
wrote: In message "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: The Welch was the length of time one would go between nearly killing oneself in some unusual way (falling on an ice axe and just barely missing impaling oneself, overshooting a sled while jumping on it... etc.) Now you see? There's a perfect example of confusing units. In the rest of the world that is the "Nicoll". ....And then there's the "Mickey", which was the unit of reference Micro$oft tried to push for, IIRC, determining the accuracy of a mouse vs the speed of the ball while in motion, or some other marketing goon bull****. The original Twin Green Button Mouse that M$ came out with had that actually listed in the manual under the specifications of all things. However, although Gates, Allen and Ballimer all have denied this over the years, they dropped their efforts after Disney's lawyers stuck their noses into the matter and claimed it was a copyright infringement and not the tribute that the M$ team had intended it to be. ....Wish I still had that mouse, tho. After 10 years of use and wearing out the internal buttons - the only component I couldn't get new ones to replace - I retired it and somewhere between the apartment moves it disappeared. The one I had was one of the last five produced, and they were in such a hurry to get it off the line that the mouse ball wasn't even rubberized. This allowed me to prove once and for all my theory that the balls they were using were, in fact, pinballs. Same size, weight and density, and one of the most commonly produced ball bearing designs back then as well as today. Just another example of how the early PC industry was founded on spare parts that could be bought in bulk *very* cheaply. Just ask the guys at IBM who took advantage of the demise of the CB Radio fad and bought those 5-Pin DIN plugs for their keyboards at 1/100th the cost of the connectors the engineers originally wanted. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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In article ,
says... This is why serious bakers weigh their ingredients, rather than measuring by volume. Also because the volume of a fixed amount of some ingredients can vary wildly. Powdered sugar's density varies over a wide range, for example. Even flour's density varies enough that some recipes call for sifting it first to fluff it up. Even then, you knead bread dough "until it is silky" rather than "for 10 minutes", adding enough flour to make it not-sticky. In short, it is a feedback process, not fully quantitative. -- Kevin Willoughby lid Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work for test pilots. -- Mike Collins |
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