krj 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.

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

Yeah, you'll think that is fine until the EU decides it needs to
standardize computers and does it without any regard for logic, what is
in use, what is or is not in the public domain, or anything else.

Imagine that the pencil necked geek that came up with this initiative is
on a Token Ring network and decides that Token Ring is what is best for
the EU and allows not other interface to the world.

I don't begrudge anyone the metric system, I understand it, can converse
in it fluently, and use it when and where I want or when it makes more
sense. But I also use the Imperial system and a number of other
standards that have come into common and widespread use over the years.

U.S. commerce has gone to providing markings in both systems and that
works for everybody. But to allow some anal retentive, my way or no
way, petty beaureaucrat ram something like this down the world's throat
simply does not make any sense.

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

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

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

Sorry 'bout that. I would have sent advance warning, but I'm never all that
sure that others will find my sense of humor...humorous. ;-)

"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.

"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.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:32:09 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

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

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

Sorry 'bout that. I would have sent advance warning, but I'm never all
that
sure that others will find my sense of humor...humorous. ;-)

Sounds like we share a similar trait. :)

Maybe the 1/2 life of Pepsi? Easier to measure something with a less than
25k year 1/2 life. Actualy do not recall what Cesium 1/2 life is, but
Plutonium is 25K and the way some rogue nations threaten the world, may be
more common than we desire.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Twelve rules!!

Help me out. how do you count in base 12?

I can do it up to nine but then what??

Oh maybe base 6 twice?

1,2,3,4,5,10,11,12,13,14,15,200
is that the way it works. My mind hurts.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Base 12 is the only way to go. :)

I respectfully disagree. Base 16, hexadecimal is the logical way to go.

"Bob" wrote in message
ups.com...

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Twelve rules!!

Help me out. how do you count in base 12?

I can do it up to nine but then what??

Oh maybe base 6 twice?

1,2,3,4,5,10,11,12,13,14,15,200
is that the way it works. My mind hurts.


Substitute A & B for 10 and 11.

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.

Has everyone forgotten that the statndard inch is actually
1/5e8 of the earth's diameter pole to pole?

KLC Lewis wrote:
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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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
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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.