911 reasons for which jimmies were rustled
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It hath been lold! LOL. It ist also lold.
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If the king was a fuck master in earlier times, he would not had taken his fucken foot as a a unit, but instead he would've taken his man-punani. If I was king... yeah... then one dick was 1 meter. But the kings of old were fukken wimps.
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Talking about people's "units" is an obvious microaggression.
Using the word "unit" in quotes is a milliaggression.
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What, exactly, is 1 foot ¼ of? Not a meter, a foot is ~30 cm. And I don't think it's ¼ of a yard either, because I'm pretty sure a foot is ⅓ of a yard.
Oh, I forgot what I was working with. Fine, 1/3 of a yard. (or if you prefer, 1/4 of a foot. both have whole-unit answers in Imperial.)
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Oh, I forgot what I was working with. Fine, 1/3 of a yard. (or if you prefer, 1/4 of a foot. both have whole-unit answers in Imperial.)
There are whole number equivalents for those in metric. The times I need 1/3 of a yard have been very limited.
I make shit all the time. When I need to layout something odd, I grab a metric tape measure.
You have a cabinet that has 5 dividers that you want to space apart evenly. The dividers are 18.2mm thick and your cabinet is 1.21m in length.
5 x 18.2 = 91mm
1210mm - 91mm = 1119mm
1119 / 4 = ~280mm (just burn a millimeter to keep the math easy)
Cut a spacer at 280mm and away you go. In Imperial, that math gets very complex very quickly and beyond what I can do quickly in my head.
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Fine, 1/3 of a yard. (or if you prefer, 1/4 of a foot. both have whole-unit answers in Imperial.)
They've got whole unit answers in metric, too. But if you need a metre, you're imperially fuckedNow, here's something that might amuse you. One of these rulers belonged to my grandfather. One belonged to my wife's grandfather. Both measure inches, and both are accurate.
The numbering isn't very obvious on the lower one, but to make it clear: The top one is a 2 foot ruler, and is 12 inches to the centre hinge. The lower one is a one foot ruler, 12 inches from end to end.
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It hath been lold! LOL. It ist also lold.
If the king was a fuck master in earlier times, he would not had taken his fucken foot as a a unit, but instead he would've taken his man-punani. If I was king... yeah... then one dick was 1 meter. But the kings of old were fukken wimps.
What the shit? Have you taken a hard knock to the head recently? If @accalia and @xaade had a child, it would type more intelligibly than that.
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Both measure inches, and both are accurate.
How is that possible? There looks like a ~1" discrepancy between the two of them.
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If I was king... yeah... then one dick was 1 meter.
Apparently, Mr. Holmes, the rumors of your death were unfounded.
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How is that possible? There looks like a ~1" discrepancy between the two of them.
It is possible (here's a hint as to how - my wife is French), and there is a discrepancy between them. I don't have an american ruler of similar vintage to compare with, but it would be different again (although probably not discernibly so over lengths such as the foot).The point, of course, being that imperial measures aren't even consistent with themselves.
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The point, of course, being that imperial measures aren't even consistent with themselves.
It's a damn poor mind that can't come up with more than one length for an inch.
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If @accalia and @xaade had a child
I would break a twig.
Have you seen my wife? She'd bench-press that fox.
I swear she can't be full blood Chinese... must be some Norse or Amazon in there.
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The point, of course, being that imperial measures aren't even consistent with themselves.
Well, not back then. I have heard that in antique cabinet shops they would take rulers and measures and lay them next to each other to verify that they all measured the same so that if John measured something at 14 7/16", that Joe could then cut to that measurement and it would fit.
There is even a story that explanation is the origin of the term "benchmark", but that expression predates any modern measuring devices.
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imperial measures aren't even consistent with themselves
A pint's a pound the world around! Not.
Having the inch defined as exactly 25.4mm was a definite improvement. Pity the US has managed to fuck even that up.
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Inches are more or less consistent since 1959. Most other imperial measures are not consistent across national boundaries.
Lengths other than the inch, amusingly enough, aren't necessarily even consistent across US state boundaries.
Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the U.S. survey foot, eight have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion factor to use.
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Pity the US has managed to fuck even that up.
Being off by millionths of an inch constitutes being "fucked up"? Or did I miss something in there?
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I guess it's close enough for private work.
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Lengths other than the inch, amusingly enough, aren't necessarily even consistent across US state boundaries.
Yeah, but that does not really constitute a problem. They are within a couple millionths of an inch. That is ~1/8" per mile. Considering that the discrepancy is across domains, it is unlikely to cause issue.
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Most people seem to miss that for scientific purposes and precision, we often use metric anyway.
It's only for general purpose or large-scale tasks that we use imperial.
When have you needed metric precision to build a house.
There are gaps in the frameboards bigger than a centimeter.
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I guess it's close enough for private work.
It is ~1/8" per mile. Can you think of a way in which that would fuck something up? That would not even come in to play on property line disputes.
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Most people seem to miss that for scientific purposes and precision, we often use metric anyway.
It's only for general purpose or large-scale tasks that we use imperial.
Yeah, hence:
Considering that the discrepancy is across domains, it is unlikely to cause issue.
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You'd be singing a different tone if it was YOUR 1/8" that was in question.
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You'd be singing a different tone if it was YOUR 1/8" that was in question.
On a mile of property.... not really.
If it's anything like my luck, there's going to be tree there, that we fight over how to trim, anyway.
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You'd be singing a different tone if it was YOUR 1/8" that was in question.
If I have a neighbor that is quarreling over 1/8", I would hope that I have more than a mile between my house and his so I didn't have to deal with the crotchety fucker.
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If it's anything like my luck, there's going to be tree there, that we fight over how to trim, anyway.
Go over in the middle of the night, spray the foliage with Round-Up, remove the object of argument.
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That would not even come in to play on property line disputes.
If you're gonna try to steal the last inch offa my eight mile paddock, there will be gunplay.
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I'm about to spray my whole yard with roundup.
The yard next to mine isn't owned by the HOA, and no one does nothing to its weeds. My whole yard is weeds now...
Bout to turn that shit to dust.
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If you're gonna try to steal the last inch offa my eight mile paddock, there will be
gunplaystrong words.FTFA
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You really think there are no guns in Australia?
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No, I just wanted to rib the flabby Australian because he is so strongly on the side of gun control.
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Well, apparently criminals are just misunderstood.
They really just want jobs.... especially in NY... where employers cannot background check criminal record.
A killer, if no guns are available, would simply choose not to kill, change their heart, or even have their entire psychology altered.
The mere presence of guns makes people into killers.
People want gun control, not because they are afraid of crime or want to reduce crime.
They are afraid that someone with a different set of ideas than they have, has access to a gun.
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Before the whole gun bollocks happens again...
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The mere presence of guns makes people into killers.
It's either that or Americans are above-averagely psychotic.
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Again, metric is for precision, imperial is for practicality, which is why every single one of those form of measurements has a different application.
The only reason why you can take one into the other was to standardize the measurements themselves.
You used hands and feet to measure the height of a horse to determine its value. That later improved into a stick that marked out a foot or a hand that made the measurement universal.
Today, if we want a precise number of seeds or grains, we'll still stack them up on a machine and count them one by one using a machine. Much like we still count quarters by stacking them.
If I wanted to be so pedantic about the metric system.
Today, the meter is defined to be the distance light travels in 1 / 299,792,458 seconds.
Which means that some other advanced alien race is looking at that and going.... how ancient.
Because meters are relative to our time dilation, our relative velocity and gravity.
If I'm going close to the speed of light, I perceive a slower time, therefore my seconds are longer than your seconds. And therefore my meters are longer. Not only that space is perceived to be compressed from my point of view in the direction I am traveling. This compensates for my slower second, by making light appear to travel less distance.
So the closer I get to the speed of light, the more I perceive travel to be instantaneous. At the speed of light, my perception of a meter is infinitely large, in the direction I am traveling.
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Because a religion is a race, right?
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No?
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Because a religion is a race, right?
I don't think all Americans believe in the same religion.
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Oh wait... sorry.
Muslim is a race.
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Oh wait... sorry.
Muslim is a race.
And you think Muslims are the big time murderers in America?
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Nope.
Murderers are the big time murderers.
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I guess it's close enough for private work.
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Wikipedia says ". In the United States, some carriers, including AT&T, will map the number 112 to its emergency number 9-1-1.". I believe Sprint does the same. Later in the article it says "The GSM mobile phone standard designates 112 as an emergency number, so it will work on GSM phones even in North America where GSM systems redirect emergency calls to 911"
But even then, you should probably use the defined emergency number for the country you're in and not hope some other one happens to work. Because that's what you're doing when you use 112 when it's not the official number for your country--trusting that the people who made your phone (Samsung, e.g., and pretend I put a link to a Tizen thread here) and your phone company ("trust" and "phone company" don't normally belong in the same sentence except when the sentence is semantically identical to "you should not trust your phone company except to be evil and/or incompetent") implement that correctly.
*shrug* Calling 911 on a mobile phone already has a large dose of because the network has to figure out where in the world you are just to route you to the correct 911 call center. You pretty much just have to cross your fingers and hope it works right.
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Calling 911 on a mobile phone already has a large dose of
Oh, look, they apparently fixed highlight-quoting of emoji!
Anyway, not nearly as much as would be involved in "112 can get through, unlike 999, even with no signal." Because that would require real magic. I am not prepared to believe that 999 cannot use other carriers' towers (or function in the actual absence of any signal) and yet 112 can.