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Default European Union DIrective


Rich Hampel wrote:
It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.

Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.


Yeah, all measuration in units of 10, just like our numbering system.
How could anything make less sense? Hmm, I guess you could have the
Imperial system, where an there are twelve inches in a foot, 3 feet in
a yard, 5280 feet in a mile which was derived from 8 furlongs.