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		Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
(...) Even the 'uncivilized world' has went metric ;) The USA remains the only developed nation not to use the metric system. The costs of this are quite high as it means that any exported products have to be dual labelled. However, one should not (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
Too many failed Mars probes: it was the Mars Climate Orbiter that had the failed metric/english measurements. (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
(...) You are describing the same problem, not a different one. (...) As I recall, they simply lost contact. Looking around so we don't have to depend on faulty memory....aha: (URL) ya go! -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
(...) Someone please correct me if I have this wrong, but I vaguely remember something about Thomas Jefferson being largely responsible for rejecting the metric system in this country - he had his own pet way of determing what should be a meter that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
(...) I thought the Mars Observer had a different problem, as in the parts were built by different companies that didn't communicate clearly, and that the 'finished' product wasn't tested as a unit--the problem happened something like this-- the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
(URL) which the metric system, and the flaws therein, is quickly discussed via a book review. Going beyond the mistooks that the system is based on, it still is the way to go! Hurry up you Americans and catch up with the 'civilized world'! ;) Dave (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		We love our guns!!-- was Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
(...) Yeah, that's the dreamer part of me... but it's completely true. (...) I like how you do away with the rest of the logically constructed arguement, that if you reduce the number of guns, you will reduce the number of gun related cases of (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Freedom from information
(...) You make a fine point, though I should confess that I don't really mind being grouped that way. It's kind of like being thrown into the generic category of "animal" versus "vegetable" or "mineral." You're also correct that the range of (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Freedom from information
(...) Hey, that was a pretty good answer. So your complaint is a comment on the award process itself, rather than on which book received the award? I can accept that. (...) Maybe, but it's also useful to Know Thine Enemy! (...) Let's leave Franken (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Not embarassed to be a Canadian anymore...
(...) Well, here's a brief interesting historical interpretation: (URL) entire article (the good bit is closer to the end of the article, listing a bunch of, shall we say, more colourful metaphors used by American and Canadian folks): Editorial: (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What about the first?
(...) I'd "venture" 99% of the terrorism the UK has suffered has been perpetrated people who'd call themselves "Christians". However, Christianity is not what drives them. – it’s greed, nationalism and to a lesser extent some form of political (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What about the first?
(...) If they actually knew what freedom was, would they still not want it? Until everyone is free, peace will never exist. I think it would be worth the cost of both money and lives if we (everyone on Earth) could teach our grandchildren's children (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
(...) I probably should have worded the above a little more carefully. I did not mean to imply that people in the US do not need to understand other peoples (though even there, I would argue that there is still less need for a cashier in the US to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: The beginning of the end of NATO?
(...) Have a look at this: ftp://voot.pair.com/...cheese.jpg [Note: “Yurp” is how Steve Bell represents Bush’s pronunciation of “Europe”] (...) ... or a least that's the way Bush can read it. ;) At the weekend we expect 500,000 – 1,000,000 to voice (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Capitalism (was: People are idiots...)
(...) I think that one must agree to either: a) because people have a right to exist somewhere, space/volume/area/land is not a good in the normal sense and we have to figure out what it is and how we handle it, or b) because space/volume/area/land (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: namecalling
(...) You are mixing political satire with being offensive. I just don't see the point of calling someone's comments "hatful", ungrateful or as being "divorced from reality" as being all that constructive. I’d have been less concerned if you had (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Comparative freedom
(...) 'Merican. Pronounce the "r" so far in the back of your throat that you have to swallow it. :-) Okay, so, America is difficult to swallow. You knew that. ;-) (...) I'd chalk that up on the silly side, and we have elections every year in any (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Poverty myths?
(...) Of course it is, but it is pure luck on their part that they are placed there. Assuming that this where their wealth derives it has not come from their ingenuity or their political system. (...) I tend to think there is a link but that you (...) (22 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Poverty myths?
(...) In my utterly limited study of dynamic systems analysis, I remember several examples (most of which I forget the specifics of, tho remember the jist) where the 'gut reaction' was to help people/societies/etc by giving money/aid/etc, which just (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Vote against/for...
(...) I was measuring it militarily. How would you measure it? By height? (...) Well, you guessed wrong. The US doesn't happen to rule the world; she just makes sure that nobody else attempts to do so. (...) Look, I am not saying the US is (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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