"ezflyer" wrote in message
ups.com...
Ya! That's right. Hey, I've got a bridge. Are you interested?


Is that the one my Pappy sold your Pappy?

And it still works? Bloody good bridge!

Oliver

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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There's one born every minute.


Now that's funny!



Actually, it's every 8 seconds, today, and PT Barnum never said that....(c;

Larry
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If we eliminate religion, will they stop murdering each other?

Peter Bennett wrote in
news.com:

You can use knots per hour to measure deceleration, too... :-)
(or should it be furlongs per fortnight? I always started the engine
when the Loran-gave an ETE of 99 hours.)



Yeah, but "deceleration" usually means we just ran aground and sailors
never like to think about "deceleration"...(c;

Larry
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If we eliminate religion, will they stop murdering each other?

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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There's one born every minute.


Now that's funny!



Actually, it's every 8 seconds, today, and PT Barnum never said
that....(c;

Larry

Yeah, and Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake!" either -- but
these things take on a life of their own and will never die.

Anyway the bottom line is that they are knot!

Phased out that is!

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.

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.

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.
Anything the EU or anybody else can do to Microsoft is welcome. Long
live Linux

I'll bet it really galls the ISO that the Earth's circumference doesn't fit
nicely into the metric system.

40,066 KM divided by 100 degrees divided by 100 minutes divided by 100
seconds = 40.066 meters. A messy little number that just doesn't fit.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Rich Hampel" wrote in message
...
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.

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
I'll bet it really galls the ISO that the Earth's circumference doesn't
fit nicely into the metric system.

40,066 KM divided by 100 degrees divided by 100 minutes divided by 100
seconds = 40.066 meters. A messy little number that just doesn't fit.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Rich Hampel" wrote in message
...
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.



All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.