http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/ Provided for intelligent discussion of whatever issues the members decide to address, provided by the Site of the Sentient Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:18:11 GMT Daniel MacIntyre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15156 ABC News reports the following statements by Obama on his choice of sides in the Honduras affair: ?America supports now the restoration of the Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:29:43 GMT Mike DiBaggio http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15155 The Imperial measurements were a late-coming adaptation of the long pre-existing English measurements which mostly were adopted through convention and Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:06:10 GMT Christian Haerle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15154 Oh, please do explain the "fallacy" of the metric system. Also please explain how metric has been imposed and imperial was not. Last time I checked, Metric Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:00:14 GMT Christian Haerle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15153 Hunh... That is an "interesting post" Kaz. Yes, conversion outside of base 10 is a slight disadvantage, since our math is based on base 10. And yes, Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:57:26 GMT Christian Haerle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15152 Mike wrote: Yes. Can you name a single place where metric was spontaneously and voluntarily adopted by real people, not scientists? Christian: Nope. Can you Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:30:07 GMT Daniel MacIntyre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15151 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15151 I know it's obvious, but it bothers me when someone attempts to teach manners by being rude. It's like the parent that tries to teach his child not to hit by Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:09:59 GMT Mike DiBaggio http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15150 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15150 Way to pick up on that point I'm trying to make, Daniel. And obviously that first "You're" should be "Your", before we get another email about apostrophe Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:37:59 GMT Daniel MacIntyre http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15149 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15149 Um, if you operated on the standards you are lauding as superior to KAZ's, you would now be apologizing on your own accord. ... -- Daniel Macintyre We Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:18 GMT Mike DiBaggio http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15148 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15148 ... We're not talking about Letterman anymore, we're talking about the nature of forgiveness. ... Oh really? You're wife's a whore, your kids are queer, and Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:46:32 GMT KAZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15147 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15147 ... I think it is pivotal to all of the arguments so far, that we're discussing WORDS. Any moron who demands an apology from some guy for merely saying stuff Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:45:06 GMT KAZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15146 Bernanke's biggest mistake wasn't lending out a couple of trillion dollars (which was bad), but not having inflated domestic currency enough to keep up with Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:39:29 GMT KAZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15145 ... This is perhaps THE key point. Anything you must force on people, you should not. Of course when you make salient points about the fallacy of the metric Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:33:49 GMT KAZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15144 ... Indeed, the "Mars curse" is simply NASA, like the Kennedy Curse is simply stupidity. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:33:13 GMT KAZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15143 ... I've said before that the metric system is fine for engineers and government bureaucrats, who are constantly converting units (and too stupid to be able to Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:59:03 GMT Mike DiBaggio http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15142 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sentient/message/15142 You forgot to attach your Comintern membership card. Mike P.S. What is this supposed to prove? On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Christian