Like the Marshall amps in the movie "Spinal Tap" . instead of having
knobs that turned up to "10" like everyone else's, Marshalls crank up
to "11" .... Something like "If it can be done, these guys can do it"


Calif Bill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:34:22 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 4 Dec 2006 07:20:45 -0800, "basskisser" wrote:


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.

Being an engineer, presumably with a math background, you should
appreciate that any system of ten sucks.

Base 12 is the only way to go. :)

If you could think straight for just a minute (which I doubt), you'd see
the
beauty of 17.

Seventeen sucks.

Twelve rules!!

11 rules. Was even a great Sci-fi story written about a culture with base
11, they took over the earth.