From: DrParnassus on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:58:50 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>The rest of the world doesn't use mils

ANY part of the world that uses inches, uses mils.

It is a direct division of an inch.

YOU are the idiot.
From: DrParnassus on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>- by people who haven't yet learned that there are now better ways of
>tackling the kind of job

Who are you to say, asswipe?
From: DrParnassus on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

> The sort of people who use it would knap
>flint points for their arrows and spears.


As long as they were aimed to pierce the skulls of idiotic dumbfucks
like you that need removal from the gene pool. Then we round up your
spawn too.
From: DrParnassus on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:16:15 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>On Jun 22, 7:05�pm, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:40:22 -0700,Bill Slomanwrote:
>> >> US customary units are NOT "Imperial".
>>
>> > And how would you prefer to label them?
>>
>> United States Customary Units, which is what they are officially called.
>
>"Imperial" is a lot shorter, and is close enough to meaning exactly
>the same thing for anybody except a lawyer.

You're an idiot and a liar. They are not the same, lawyer or not.
From: JosephKK on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:05:38 -0700, Fred Abse
<excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:07:29 -0700, DrParnassus wrote:
>
>> Non-electronic verniers generally only have room for
>> ONE scale, and most bought inch and metric versions back in the days
>> before electronic resolve.
>
>My collection of "real" verniers, ranging from Brown & Sharpe, through
>British Moore & Wright, to cheapo Chinese, all have dual inch/metric
>scales. Some are 50 years old.

Cool, could you post some photos, say in abse? Or on some picture site?