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From: Bart Goddard on 21 Feb 2010 19:48 Matt <30days(a)net.net> wrote in news:9ni3o5ddfpra303s2toi8453kt7he6di7s@ 4ax.com: > Are you saying there's nothing manly about Texans enduring ambient > temperatures near 100�F? > > An ambient temperature of 100�C isn't manly; it's fatal. > Well, two months of 100 degree highs here in Austin will unman about anyone. (It's darn difficult to brew decent beer when the amient tempurature kills brewers' yeast.) On the other hand, I know at least one person in the Century Club for having survived 100 C in a Turkish sauna. B. -- Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
From: Darwin123 on 22 Feb 2010 17:59 On Feb 17, 8:40 pm, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Darwin123 wrote: > I actually praise the French revolution in general, and call myself a > socialist. You would know this if you'd read many of my posts. > > Andrew Usher This is still the first time that I ever heard "white-guilt" associated with the metric system. Y You still haven't explained to us how the metric system relates to "white guilt" or "the left." In fact, I don't precisely understand what you mean by "the left." Most people relate "the left" to socialism. You seem to relate the "left" to blacks and Jews. Most people relate the profit motive to "the right." You seem to think that the profit motive to the Jews, not "the right. After the French revolution, the legislature was divided into the left and the right. At the time, it literally referred to the geometry of the room. The left side was associated with violent extremists, the Jacobians. The right side was associated with the "profit making" group. I don't know if there were ANY Jews on the right side, but the right definitely liked profit. From your posts, it seems that you think of yourself as a modern Jacobian. It is amusing that you like the French revolution and dislike the metric system. The metric system was created because of the French revolution. There were no Jews involved, so far as I know. For your information, the Jacobian movement collapsed. Their ideology was unworkable. The metric system has survived long after the Jacobians have disappeared. You would know this if you could read.
From: Michael Stemper on 23 Feb 2010 13:16
In article <Xns9D254C23A3B72goddardbenetscapenet(a)74.209.136.97>, Bart Goddard <goddardbe(a)netscape.net> writes: >jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote in news:hlommk1k0r(a)news3.newsguy.com: >> Andrew Usher wrote: >>> On Feb 15, 7:06 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: >>>> is more difficult for every calculation. If you have your computer >>>> do it, it will be wrong. Using 100 implies that you don't have >>>> to do any numbers other than 1. >>> >>> This is just retarded. >>> >> If that is retarded, then your level of thinking is below an >> amoeba. > >The "retarded" part is thinking that Celcius is any >more "metric" than Fahrenheit. No one talks about >kilodegrees. No, because degrees (whether Celsius or Fahrenheit) do not start at absolute zero, but at temperatures that are commonly experienced by humans. You do, however, encounter discussion of "kiloKelvins", especially in astrophysics. The Kelvin, not the degree Celsius, is the SI unit of temperature. -- Michael F. Stemper #include <Standard_Disclaimer> Life's too important to take seriously. |